Syphilis

When conducting research on another human being, rules must be put in place to protect the dignity and health of that person. That being said, if the person is under no physical or emotional distress, there should not be a need to stop a researcher from continuing or sharing their findings. A reasonable stance in this case would mean do not harm, if that was not explicitly obvious to begin with if you are a decent human being. A person may be your test subject, but that does not mean you can…

According to the CDC there are around 200,000 reported cases of syphilis in the United States each year. Syphilis can be hard to detect since it often has the same symptoms as other diseases. In order to detect the disease, it is important to be informed about syphilis. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted bacterial infection. The bacterial infection is caused by the bacterium treponema pallidum. Treponema pallidum belongs to the Spirochaetaceae family, and is a spirochete bacterium.…

The ethical violation that took place in the Tyskee Syphilis study were biased and disrespectful. The participants of the study definitely were not treated with concern, they were misled with promises of “free medical care” that lead them to believe that whatever they had would be treated and disclosed. The experimenters never disclosed all the information to the participants that would be relevant to them to participate. The participants were never given the opportunity to ask questions about…

These systems have many diseases and infections, whose consequences are terrible ones that lead to death or survive by treatment. One of the diseases of the reproductive system is syphilis which a sexually transmitted disease caused by a type of bacteria, it can affect the vagina, anus, urethra or penis and one disease of the nervous system is meningitis is an inflammation (swelling) of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord known as the meninges,it can be caused by a…

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was an experiment held in Tuskegee, Alabama from 1932-1972. The study contained at least 600 African American men, 399 entered the study with syphilis and 201 without the disease, used as controls. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that can result in fatal consequences. It can affect many internal organs, such as the heart, lungs and brain. Instead of being told that they were part of a medical experiment and that they had contracted syphilis, these…

It is the purpose of governmental power to police the freedoms of the citizens that they represent, although this did not take place during the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Bill Clinton made an apology public in 1997 directed toward the families directly affected and those who survived this study in Tuskegee which disrespected the foundation of human rights. Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights offers freedom from intolerance and Article 5 states "No one shall be subjected to…

populated with blacks only, witch is why white doctors experimented on them. Since the small community was diseased with syphilis, the experiment was to see how syphilis affected the community, see how fast it would spread if there was ever a major outbreak, and to see how syphilis will affect the people if left untreated. At the time, there was a newly found cure to syphilis is was distributed to all hospitals, and doctor offices. However, this cure was not given to the people of Tuskegee. The…

From 1946 to 1948 The United States conducted what is now known as "The Guatemala Syphilis Experiment". As part of the experiment "Doctors infected soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners and mental patients with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases, without the informed consent of the subjects[...] [resulting] in at least 83 deaths." () Certainly the prisoners who had sex with infected prostitutes hired by the researchers to do so, would be under the scope of persons with "diminished…

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…

Sections 1 & 2: List of ethical violations associated with the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment and classifying which type of ethical violations occurred 1.) The USPHS tricked the men into participating by saying they were going to provide them with free treatment, but instead withheld treatment. Researchers went to great lengths to stop the men from being treated by other, non-government physicians, because they didn’t want to compromise the study. They not only approached their subjects about…