Tuskegee study?
we have ethical principles:
1. what is double effect tuskegee study?
2. stewardship in tuskegee study?
3. totality on tuskegee study?
4. cooperation in tuskegee study?
5. solidarity in tuskegee study?
please help me... pls... pls...
Answers:
Do you know anything about the Tuskegee experiment (1932-1972)?
399 black American men were "treated for bad blood" when they actually had syphilis, a disease which can be cured if treated properly.
"These token doses of medicine were good public relations and did not interfere with the true aims of the study. Eventually, all syphilis treatment was replaced with “pink medicine”—aspirin. To ensure that the men would show up for a painful and potentially dangerous spinal tap, the PHS doctors misled them with a letter full of promotional hype: “Last Chance for Special Free Treatment.” The fact that autopsies would eventually be required was also concealed."
"Even when penicillin was discovered in the 1940s—the first real cure for syphilis—the Tuskegee men were deliberately denied the medication. During World War II, 250 of the men registered for the draft and were consequently ordered to get treatment for syphilis, only to have the PHS exempt them."
"Fred Gray, a lawyer who had previously defended Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, filed a class action suit that provided a $10 million out-of-court settlement for the men and their families. Gray, however, named only whites and white organizations in the suit, portraying Tuskegee as a black and white case when it was in fact more complex than that—black doctors and institutions had been involved from beginning to end."
$10 million / 399 = $25,063 each.
As of 1997, only 8 of these men remained alive.
Here is some information that I found on the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male."
If that is it, here is some good websites:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/tuskegee/ti...
http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/tuskegee/...
http://www.tuskegee.edu/global/story.asp...
Hope that helps.
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