Panel Hears Grim Details of Venereal Disease Tests

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dc.contributor.authorMcNeil, Donald G.
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:04:54Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:04:54Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractGruesome details of American-run venereal disease experiments on Guatemalan prisoners, soldiers and mental patients in the years after World War II were revealed this week during hearings before a White House bioethics panel investigating the study’s sordid history. From 1946 to 1948, American taxpayers, through the Public Health Service, paid for syphilis-infected Guatemalan prostitutes to have sex with prisoners. When some of the men failed to become infected through sex, the bacteria were poured into scrapes made on the penises or faces, or even injected by spinal puncture.
dc.description.urihttps://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/world/americas/31syphilis.html
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/iler-c5pf
dc.identifier.citationMcNeil, Donald G. (2011) Panel Hears Grim Details of Venereal Disease Tests. New York Times. (Unpublished)
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 3205
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/23808
dc.subjectBioethics
dc.subjectPolicy
dc.subjectResearch
dc.subjectDr. John Cutler
dc.subjectGuatemala
dc.subjectsyphilis experiments
dc.titlePanel Hears Grim Details of Venereal Disease Tests
dc.typeArticle

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