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Tuskegee experiment, bioethical violation as present and future in the development of human society

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Introduction. The Tuskegee Experiment was a clinical study between 1932 and 1972 in the American city of Tuskegee, by the United States Public Health Service. Objective. Describe the history of the Tuskegee experiment, as a violation of bioethics for the present and future in the development of human society. Material and method. A retrospective historical study was carried out where theoretical methods such as documentary and historical-logical analysis were used. Development. Six hundred African-American sharecroppers, mostly illiterate who did not give informed consent, were studied to observe the natural progression of untreated syphilis and whether it could lead to death. This generated controversy and led to changes in the legal protection of patients in clinical studies, leading to the establishment of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects in Biomedical and Behavioral Research and the National Research Act. Conclusions. History has given us a painful lesson, but one that we cannot stop learning and the teaching that ethical sensitivity must be raised. Any scientific experiment, no matter how well technically designed, cannot forget the experimental subject, much less when it involves vulnerable populations.

Source: Seminars in Medical Writing and Education

DOI: 10.56294/mw2024612

Authors: Maria de la Caridad Casanova Moreno, Francisco Machado Reyes, Wagner González Casanova, Daimy Casanova Moreno, Diana Belkis Gómez Guerra

Institutions: Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río, University of Pinar del Río

Language: English

Topic: Ethics in Clinical Research

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4408243444

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