Presidential panel excoriates former Pitt dean

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dc.contributor.authorOve, Torsten
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:04:50Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:04:50Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractA presidential ethics panel today excoriated the late Dr. John Cutler, a revered dean at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1960s, and his colleagues at the U.S. Public Health Service for deliberately infecting hundreds of Guatemalan prisoners, mental patients, soldiers and prostitutes with syphilis from 1946 to 1948, including 83 who died. The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues concluded that Dr. Cutler's experiments were morally indefensible, even for the standards of the time, and that he and his fellow doctors tried to keep secret what they were doing because they knew it was wrong.
dc.description.urihttp://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11241/1170730-100.stm
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/pq7i-dhl7
dc.identifier.citationOve, Torsten (2011) Presidential panel excoriates former Pitt dean. Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 3185
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/23791
dc.subjectBioethics
dc.subjectResearch
dc.subjectDr. John Cutler
dc.subjectU.S. Public Health Service
dc.subjectGuatemala
dc.subjectsyphilis
dc.titlePresidential panel excoriates former Pitt dean
dc.typeArticle

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