[Podcast] Retropod, The Washington Post; The U.S. government recruited black men to watch them die
"The Tuskegee syphilis experiment is a horrific piece of American history."
Showing posts with label Tuskegee syphilis experiments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tuskegee syphilis experiments. Show all posts
Sunday, July 8, 2018
The legacy of Thomas Parran is more troubling than you thought; The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 8, 2018
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."
"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."
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Worse Than Tuskegee; Slate, February 26, 2017
Sushma Subramanian, Slate;
"“Most people think we don’t conduct trials this way,” Annas said. “We always act shocked by research scandals and see them as historical anomalies that cannot be repeated. But so far, we’ve always been wrong.”
In 2011, the presidential commission for the same bioethics commission that completed the Guatemala syphilis report also published a report on international research. It recommended that the country develop a compensation system perhaps akin to the U.S. National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program—which covers people harmed by certain vaccines—for people who are injured as test subjects in research. The site hosting that report, bioethics.gov, is no longer in service: A note on the archived site says that it will stop being updated as of Jan. 15, 2017, likely in anticipation of the presidential transition.
In addition to providing compensation to victims, the advisers on the Archdiocese of Guatemala’s petition are also advocating for sharpening the teeth of laws that protect research subjects internationally. They suggest amendments to the Common Rule, the set of guidelines used by institutional review boards overseeing research involving human subjects in biomedical and behavioral research in the United States and internationally."
Worse Than Tuskegee
"“Most people think we don’t conduct trials this way,” Annas said. “We always act shocked by research scandals and see them as historical anomalies that cannot be repeated. But so far, we’ve always been wrong.”
In 2011, the presidential commission for the same bioethics commission that completed the Guatemala syphilis report also published a report on international research. It recommended that the country develop a compensation system perhaps akin to the U.S. National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program—which covers people harmed by certain vaccines—for people who are injured as test subjects in research. The site hosting that report, bioethics.gov, is no longer in service: A note on the archived site says that it will stop being updated as of Jan. 15, 2017, likely in anticipation of the presidential transition.
In addition to providing compensation to victims, the advisers on the Archdiocese of Guatemala’s petition are also advocating for sharpening the teeth of laws that protect research subjects internationally. They suggest amendments to the Common Rule, the set of guidelines used by institutional review boards overseeing research involving human subjects in biomedical and behavioral research in the United States and internationally."
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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