Complete Classical case 6 – Classic Cases: The Tuskegee Study/ Willowbrook State School
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A summary of the case
The ethical issues related to the case
Implications for current day health care issues
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Conduct search in CSI library and Provide summary of the case and answer the questions including appropriate references. In addition, read the attached article and include it in your discussion.
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The African HIV-Vertical Transmission Study
What conclusions were drawn by NIH and the Institute of Medicine about the ability of modern IRB’s to handle the volume of research at big medical institutions?
What was the Syphilophobia Campaign?
Why did anti-syphilis reformers differ twice over methods to prevent spread of syphilis from 1900–1948? How did this difference prefigure future divisions in medical ethics over giving out condoms to control STDs and needle-exchange programs to prevent the spread of HIV?
What were Salvarsan and Neosalvarsan, and what were their limitations as medicines?
What did Boeck and Bruusgaard discover about syphilis?
What was race of the subjects of the Tuskegee Study? Did the Tuskegee Study ever include any whites with syphilis in its study?
How was the initial phase of the Tuskegee Study conceived differently than the remainder of the study?
What does a study in nature imply?
Were any subjects injected with syphilis? Did any subjects have infectious syphilis when they were recruited to the study?
Who were part of the control group in the Tuskegee Study?
Why was the study racially biased (racist)?
How did physicians from the Public Health Service deceive subjects in the Tuskegee Study?
Why were the subjects in the Tuskegee Study given spinal taps?
What recommendation did the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) make about the Tuskegee Study in 1969?
Who broke the story of the Tuskegee Study? How did the public and the Congress react?
What effect did the Tuskegee study have on the willingness of African-Americans to participate in medical research in future?
In 2011, what was learned about the U.S. Public Health Service’s research in Guatemala about syphilis? How was it worse than the Tuskegee study?
Why did the people in the control group also get compensation? What problems existed with the research design of the Tuskegee study?
Were subjects of the Tuskegee study harmed by injecting arsenicals and withholding penicillin? Why is the answer to the latter complicated and hard to prove?
Did the Tuskegee Study’s leaders intend to allow preventable harm to occur to the study’s 400 subjects?
How did the Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) form after revelation of the Tuskegee story to the public and the Congress?
How did Professor R. H. Kampmeier react to the negative judgment of the Tuskegee Study?
Other Studies like The Tuskegee Study
The African HIV-Vertical Transmission Study.
