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Tuskegee Syphilis Study:
who?
when?
why?
what did it result in?
1932-1972
U.S. Public Health Services conducted studies on 600 low-income African Americans.
They wanted to study the natural disease progression of untreated syphilis. They did not get informed consent or treat the patients with penicillin after the 1940s validation that it was an effective drug.

It resulted in the Belmont Report
Belmont Report
3 main guiding principles of research?
Respect for persons
Beneficence
Justice
Guatemala STD experiments:
when?
who?
why unethical?
STD research in Guatemala that was unethical in the U.S. The NIH funded for soldiers, prostitutes, and mental patients to be intentionally infected with STD.

They were given treatment, but it resulted in more than 80 deaths.
Nazi Experiments, lead to?
Nuremburg code of medical ethics - most importantly informed consent
Jewish Chronic Disease Study
who? where? what?
22 elderly patients in a hospital in Brooklyn, NY were injected with live cancer cells in order to "discover the secret of the invasion of malignant cancer"

oral consent was not documented
Dr. Frances Kelsey
Part of the FDA, did not allow thalidomide to be approved in the US - concerned of lack of scientific evidence of safety.
Kefauver Amendments - what are they, and why were they passed?
They were passed as part of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, to ensure drug efficacy and greater drug safety.

Result of the Thalidomide scare in the 1950s
Declaration of Helsinki
-what is it? who created it? enforceable?
Basis for "Good Clinical Practices" used today

Created by the World Medical Association

Moral but not legal
NIH OPRR - what does it do?
Office for protection of research risks

created IRBs
National Research Act - NCPHS
What are they? and what did they do?
national comission for the protection of human subjects of biomedical and behavioral research

they created the Belmont Report
Belmont Report
-created by who?
-critique by who? and why?
-3 tenants?
created by NCPHS

operates at individual level and fails to address the needs of communities (environmental justice, etc)

critique by Nancy Shore

respect for persons, beneficence, justice
Nancy Shore
critic of the Belmont Report - need more community-based participatory researchers, taking into account cultural, gender, ethnic, and geographic considerations. community interpretations.
Common Rule
-when?
-what?
1991 - defines the current IRB system
Human Dosing Studies
Adds a safety factor for children (modifying factor) in the RfD
CHAMACOS - what are the ethics surrounding the study?
culturally sensitive study, with community advisory board (CAB) and has an ethical obligation to the participants
Lockwood - Ethics in PH research & PESTICIDES
6-human pesticide dosing studies submitted to the EPA all had serious ethical or scientific deficiencies --- financial conflicts of interest, lack of informed consent --- the US EPA should not rely on this type of study