Steps still being taken to undo damage of America's Nuremberg

dc.contributor.authorWolinsky, Howard
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:01:35Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:01:35Z
dc.date.issued1997
dc.description.abstractThe year 1947 was a watershed for medical ethics and medical care. Fifty years ago, the Nuremberg Code, created in response to the atrocities of Nazi medicine, called for the informed consent of participants in human research. That same year, penicillin was recognized as the standard of care for syphilis. Researchers from the U.S. Public Health Service failed to connect these two milestones. They continued to conduct a long-running study in Tuskegee, Alabama, on the course of syphilis in untreated African-American men and chose not to provide penicillin to study participants. Today, some researchers attribute problems in recruiting African Americans for clinical trials, at least in part, to the Tuskegee study.
dc.description.urihttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9454520
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/djaj-bs3b
dc.identifier.citationWolinsky, Howard (1997) Steps still being taken to undo damage of America's Nuremberg. Annals of Internal Medicine, 127 (4). pp. 143-144.
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 1099
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/23032
dc.subjectBioethics
dc.subjectPublic Health
dc.subjectResearch
dc.subjectTuskegee Syphilis Experiment
dc.subjectNuremberg Code
dc.subjectuntreated African-American men
dc.subjectclinical trials
dc.titleSteps still being taken to undo damage of America's Nuremberg
dc.typeArticle

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