Scott W. Stern, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; The legacy of Thomas Parran is more troubling than you though
"University of Pittsburgh trustees last month voted to remove from a
university building the name of Thomas Parran, who served as U.S.
surgeon general from 1936 to 1948 and was founding dean of Pitt’s
Graduate School of Public Health.
For decades, Parran has been notorious for overseeing the infamous
Tuskegee syphilis experiments, in which the government withheld
treatment from poor black men with syphilis in rural Alabama from 1932
to 1972. In more recent years, Parran gained additional notoriety for
his role in overseeing an even crueler study the government conducted in
Guatemala, in which government officials intentionally infected female
sex workers with syphilis.
So, the renaming was long overdue.
However, there is another way
Thomas Parran’s legacy remains with the residents of Pittsburgh — one
that virtually no one knows about."
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Sunday, October 3, 2010
U.S. Apologizes for Syphilis Tests in Guatemala; New York Times, 10/2/10
Donald G. McNeil, Jr., New York Times; U.S. Apologizes for Syphilis Tests in Guatemala:
"From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans — prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers — with venereal diseases in what was meant as an effort to test the effectiveness of penicillin...
In a twist to the revelation, the public health doctor who led the experiment, John C. Cutler, would later have an important role in the Tuskegee study in which black American men with syphilis were deliberately left untreated for decades. Late in his own life, Dr. Cutler continued to defend the Tuskegee work.
His unpublished Guatemala work was unearthed recently in the archives of the University of Pittsburgh by Professor Reverby, a medical historian who has written two books about Tuskegee."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/health/research/02infect.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=facebook%20ethics&st=cse
"From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans — prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers — with venereal diseases in what was meant as an effort to test the effectiveness of penicillin...
In a twist to the revelation, the public health doctor who led the experiment, John C. Cutler, would later have an important role in the Tuskegee study in which black American men with syphilis were deliberately left untreated for decades. Late in his own life, Dr. Cutler continued to defend the Tuskegee work.
His unpublished Guatemala work was unearthed recently in the archives of the University of Pittsburgh by Professor Reverby, a medical historian who has written two books about Tuskegee."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/health/research/02infect.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=facebook%20ethics&st=cse
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