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Ethics is not just medical ethics

Name: Ethics is not just medical ethics
Creator: Lucy Allais
Keywords: Clinical Trials as Topic, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Humans, Syphilis, History, 20th Century, Guatemala, 0305 other medical science, United States, Ethics, Research

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 17 May 2013Publisher:BMJJournal:Sexually Transmitted Infections, volume 89, pages 304-304 (issn: 1368-4973, eissn: 1472-3263,

Authors: Lucy Allais;

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051114

pmid: 23687134

Ethics is not just medical ethics

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At the very time Nazi doctors were on trial, American doctors, with public funding and official approval, conducted the shockingly immoral research summarised here by Zenilman. While not running for as long as the infamous Tuskegee study in which patients were wrongfully left untreated, this research, even more shockingly, involved deliberately harming people by infecting them with syphilis, gonorrhoea and chancroid. The paper provides a salutary reminder of just how important …

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Clinical Trials as Topic, Humans, Syphilis, History, 20th Century, Guatemala, United States, Ethics, Research

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