Edgar, Harold
Abstract
Twenty years ago, when the Washington Star told the public that the United States Public Health Service had, since 1932, maintained a study of untreated syphilis in the Negro male that was still going on, my reaction was, How could people have done this? I later worked on the participants' lawsuit, and I learned of the study's many complexities. In the end, though, the best explanation of "how" it could have happened is the obvious one: the researchers did not see the participants as part of "their" community or, indeed, as people whose lives could or would be much affected by what the researchers did.
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Tuskegee Syphilis Study; untreated syphilis in the Negro male; community |
| Subjects: | Health > Health Equity > Bioethics Health > Public Health Research |
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| Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2012 22:13 |
| Link to this item (URI): | http://health-equity.pitt.edu/id/eprint/1091 |
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