Thursday, January 22, 2009

Tuskegee 25 Years Later











It has been 25 years since the Tuskegee syphilis study ended. In this study, 399 African American men that had syphilis were used without knowledge of what was being done. They were told that they had "bad blood." The men were chosen because of their lack of education and poor socioeconomic status. The researchers used African American physicians and nurses, as well as community leaders to encourage cooperation. The study went on almost 40 years, even after a cure was discovered.
Twenty-five years after the end of the study, President Clinton held a public apology for those men involved in the study and their family members. In the speech, he condemned what had happened. He stressed the impact that it has had on African Americans and their distrust of Public Health. He correlated this mistrust to the low number of African Americans in medical studies and who are organ donors. He outlined different programs to increase trust in Public Health as well as to continue the advancement in bioethics.
With the rapid changes in health care brought about through technology, we will encounter new ethical dilemmas. Now more then ever, bioethics is needed so that we don't repeat the mistakes of yesterday.


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