The Role Of Ethics In The Tuskegee Study

In biological science the word “ethics” stops unacceptable behavior. Ethics simply means the difference between acceptable and intolerable behavior that is frowned upon. I feel that ethics should cover each individual area of a study. For example an unethical behavior is the Tuskegee Study that took place in the early 1930s. The study was to gather African American men that had syphilis and men that were healthy and treat them for “bad blood”. The men performing the study were misleading the African American men, they did not inform them of all the facts. Instead of treating the men there was no evidence found that these men were every treated. This study goes against ethical behavior. That is why the Institutional Review Board (IRB) was created