Then, in the summer of 1973 a [civil] class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of the study participants …show more content…
Bioethics is a “reflective examination of ethical issues in health care, health science, and health policy” (What is Bioethics, 2017). So, in 1974 the US Congress passed the National Research Act, “which mandated the establishment of local institutional review boards” (The Tuskegee Timeline, 2017). This act lead to the establishment of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavior Research in 1974 (How Tuskegee Changed Research Practices, 2017). This commission issued of the Belmont Report in 1979 (Reverby, 2009). The Belmont Report contains three principles of research (Reverby, 2009). These principles are “respect for persons, beneficence, and justice” (Reverby, 2009). Overall, the Tuskegee Study allowed the public to apply ethics to health policy, and to ensure that human rights were not omitted while research was being conducted. Moreover, the institution of the National Research Act, the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavior Research, and the Belmont Report made the unconsented experiment of humans unethical and