The Tuskegee Experiment: An Ethical Study
Tuskegee Experiment
The study chosen is the Tuskegee experiment, which was an unethical study. The study is considered unethical because it is a symbol of medical misconduct and it also had a blatant disregard for human rights. The physicians who performed this experiment failed to obtain informed consent from their subjects, and the participants were only poor black Americans, which indicated that the selection of the subjects were not equitable.
Earlier clinical research, such as the Tuskegee syphilis experiment has raised many ethical issues concerning human studies. 600 black men were used, 399 with syphilis and 201 without syphilis (Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). According to Ogungbure (2011), the Tuskegee experiment …show more content…
This led to the Nuremberg Code, which insisted on informed consent as a necessary condition for clinical research. Further governing bodies such as the Declaration of Helsinki, and the Belmont Report clinical enabled individuals who can’t consent to be enrolled in clinical research based on permission of their representative. These governing bodies also emphasize that experiments must be designed and carried out to prevent injuries to participants and clinical research must be separate from medical care ("Clinical Research Basics," 2015). This experiment could have been redesigned to be an ethical experiment. Since it involves conducting research on humans, researchers must agree to a set of ethical principles and regulations called the ‘Common Rule.” Researcher would have to ensure that they obtain informed consent, and assurances of compliance (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2014). According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (2014), “The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research must consider the boundaries between biomedical and behavioral research and the accepted and routine practice of medicine, the role of assessment of risk-benefit criteria in the determination of the appropriateness of research involving human subjects, appropriate guidelines for the selection of human subjects for participation in such research and the nature and definition of informed consent” (para. 1). The Protection of Human Subjects of Research, also known as the Belmont Report identifies the basic ethical principles that the researchers should adhere to when conducting First-in-human studies and pivotal studies: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services [HHS], 2014). Other principles include “social value, fair selection validity, favorable risk-benefit, independent review, and
The study chosen is the Tuskegee experiment, which was an unethical study. The study is considered unethical because it is a symbol of medical misconduct and it also had a blatant disregard for human rights. The physicians who performed this experiment failed to obtain informed consent from their subjects, and the participants were only poor black Americans, which indicated that the selection of the subjects were not equitable.
Earlier clinical research, such as the Tuskegee syphilis experiment has raised many ethical issues concerning human studies. 600 black men were used, 399 with syphilis and 201 without syphilis (Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). According to Ogungbure (2011), the Tuskegee experiment …show more content…
This led to the Nuremberg Code, which insisted on informed consent as a necessary condition for clinical research. Further governing bodies such as the Declaration of Helsinki, and the Belmont Report clinical enabled individuals who can’t consent to be enrolled in clinical research based on permission of their representative. These governing bodies also emphasize that experiments must be designed and carried out to prevent injuries to participants and clinical research must be separate from medical care ("Clinical Research Basics," 2015). This experiment could have been redesigned to be an ethical experiment. Since it involves conducting research on humans, researchers must agree to a set of ethical principles and regulations called the ‘Common Rule.” Researcher would have to ensure that they obtain informed consent, and assurances of compliance (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2014). According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (2014), “The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research must consider the boundaries between biomedical and behavioral research and the accepted and routine practice of medicine, the role of assessment of risk-benefit criteria in the determination of the appropriateness of research involving human subjects, appropriate guidelines for the selection of human subjects for participation in such research and the nature and definition of informed consent” (para. 1). The Protection of Human Subjects of Research, also known as the Belmont Report identifies the basic ethical principles that the researchers should adhere to when conducting First-in-human studies and pivotal studies: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services [HHS], 2014). Other principles include “social value, fair selection validity, favorable risk-benefit, independent review, and