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Aylee -> RE: It wasn't just Tuskegee. (10/2/2010 3:59:15 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MercTech
What made the Tuskeegee studies so heinous was that the study subjects were not fully informed of the consequences of the study. Totally misinformed and manipulated. The Tuskeegee Study gave prisoners Syphilis and were allowed to progress to stage four causing brain damage and even death. Yep, that is how the textbooks got the information on what, exactly, syphilis does to a person. Subjects in a medical experiment have a right to informed consent. They have to be informed of the risks and hazards of participation. Before the Tuskeegee study became public and the huge outcry, informed consent had no force in law.
No. The men in the Tuskegee study (1932-1972) were not given Syphilis, they already had it. However, they were not TOLD that they had it. They were told that they were being studied for "bad blood." A term that had several meanings at the time, one of which refered to syphillis. They were also not treated for it with penicillin even after that had become the standard and effective treatment by 1947. They did not even split them up into a control group for study of the treatment of penicillin.
Now, because these men were not informed, numerous wives contracted the STD and children were born with it.
Another part of this study that brought about outrage was the fact that the men being studied were all impoverished black men. They did recieve free medical exams, free meals, and burial insurance. However, that really just does nt make up for allowing these men to inflict it on their wives and children.
After 1972 is when informed consent and review boards became standard due to this study. Previous to this, informed consent was not seen as something that was needed or that failure to have such was an ethics violation.
BTW, Loius Pasteur is known for the rabies and anthrax vaccines. Not for the treatment of syphillis.
Alexander Flemming is the penicillin guy.
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