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fis260 - The conflicts between medical research and ethics can be a fine line. Many people will argue that research breaches medical ethics because some of the means necessary, to broaden our knowledge of the unknown, is unethical. In this paper, I will be disclosing my findings as well as my opinion on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. I will also be touching on the facts surrounding this conflicting study and its profound influence on the African American culture. There are many points in this research that I strongly disagreed with like: the way the study was conducted, the lack of patient consent and knowledge, and the eventual outcome of the patients quality of life surrounding this callous study.
fis 260 - The Beginning of the End
Hcs435 - The Tuskegee study of the 1930s, which ran 40 years, was the biggest controversy in medical history. It set the standards for the African American community in the medical world today. Therefore, the African American community is more reluctant to be involved in health screenings and public health issues. According to Thomas and Quinn (1991), “ the strategies used to recruit and retain participants were quite similar to those being advocated for HIV/AIDs prevention programs today. Almost 60 years after the study began, there remains a trail of dishonest and suspicion that hampers HIV education efforts in Black communities” (p. 1498). The Tuskegee study started in 1932 in Tuskegee Alabama.
Hcs 435 - The Public Health System (PHS) became interested in the area because of the high rate of syphilis, and “located the men who became the study’s unwitting subjects,” (Reverby, 2001, p. 2). This was an easy task because of the poverty levels and lack of health care access in the Black community during this time.
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fis 260 - The Beginning of the End
Hcs435 - The Tuskegee study of the 1930s, which ran 40 years, was the biggest controversy in medical history. It set the standards for the African American community in the medical world today. Therefore, the African American community is more reluctant to be involved in health screenings and public health issues. According to Thomas and Quinn (1991), “ the strategies used to recruit and retain participants were quite similar to those being advocated for HIV/AIDs prevention programs today. Almost 60 years after the study began, there remains a trail of dishonest and suspicion that hampers HIV education efforts in Black communities” (p. 1498). The Tuskegee study started in 1932 in Tuskegee Alabama.
Hcs 435 - The Public Health System (PHS) became interested in the area because of the high rate of syphilis, and “located the men who became the study’s unwitting subjects,” (Reverby, 2001, p. 2). This was an easy task because of the poverty levels and lack of health care access in the Black community during this time.
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