The Search for the Legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. Lexington 2011
By Caplan, Arthur | |
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The Search for the Legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at
This is an important book. Not because it sheds new factual light upon the notorious 40-year study that the Federal government sponsored to learn about the effects of untreated syphilis on the human body. A number of important new facts about the atrocious study are set forth by the writers of the 14 essays in the book and the editors. The importance of the volume lies elsewhere. This is a book about a relatively unexamined aspect of the most famous violation of research subjects in American history-what is the legacy of the Tuskegee Study?
Many specific events have followed in the wake of the revelation in 1972 of the USPHS Syphilis Study at
This is part of the legacy that the contributors evaluate. The role of the media and the arts get little attention although arguably they are the vehicles through which the legacy of
Other parts of the legacy loom even larger in the book. It has been an article of faith that knowledge of the study cast a pall over the willingness of subsequent generations of African Americans to participate in clinical research- faith that
It is also an article of faith that the field of bioethics arose as a reaction to the
Bioethics certainly did try to grapple with the legacy of
The ethical infrastructure for research ethics which evolved post the outing in 1972 of the USPHS Syphilis Study at
All manner of events followed once the USPHS Syphilis Study at
Still, the real legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at
Despite the wish of many in positions of power to believe that the true legacy of
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