Miss Evers Boys Ethical Analysis

The film “Miss Evers’ Boys explores ethical and social issues involved in the infamous Tuskegee Study. The study was about untreated black men diagnosed with syphilis. This study is an example of unethical medical research. Despite the availability of penicillin, these men were studied longitudinally and deceptively without treatment for decades, to discover the long term effects of untreated syphilis on their particular population. The film gives vivid and obvious examples to breaches in medical ethics and the experiment and the investigation into it paved the way for codes of conduct and ethical standards that today are main stream. Medical and ethical guidelines for participants in research were developed and implemented to protect future research participants from undo harm and risk associated with participation in research studies. Ethical guidelines and elements such as justice, respect for persons, duty based ethics, were outlined. The film interweaves breaches of all ethical standards. Beyond an ethical violation particularly for those physicians involved who had sworn an oath to heal the sick the Tuskegee syphilis experiment amounted to a moral abomination that should have had no part in …show more content…
Therefore, there should be an ideal distribution of benefits and risks and benefits while conducting a clinical research. In the movie, “Miss Ever’s Boys”, only blacks were included in the study. The study recruited 600 black men and none white person. To start with, this was discrimination of the highest order. This means that only the black men were at the risk of dying, considering that they treated them with placebos. This means that only the black men were at the risk of dying, considering that they treated them with placebos. This means that only the black men's lives were endangered while the bioethics requires that the risk to be distributed