Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

“The repeated assumption of the unacceptability of deception seems to be due to the fact that deception has been evaluated only from the viewpoint of moral philosophizing.” According to Dr. Larry Christensen, a scholar in psychology this has led to the repeated conclusion that deception is reprehensible and seems to have created a perceptual set…

I really enjoyed watching this movie. I love learning about historical events, although this event really saddened me. Ethical principles protect participants in biomedical research studies from undue exploitation. In the Tuskegee study these principles were blatantly violated. Between 1932 and 1972 a large group of black men (400) were infected with syphilis. The other…

In the film Deadly Deception, the audience is taken on a journey from the early 1930’s to the early 1970’s in a small town in Alabama. In the small town, we learn that a research study was conducted on young black men. These men were told that they were being treated for “bad blood” (Deadly…

This video discusses the story of research ethics in the United States. It all started when the Nazi War criminals were taken to trial due to conducting experiments on prisoners without approval. The tests were done on thousands of prisoners as most of them died and the others became permanently disabled. As a result the…

When it comes to health science research, there is no such thing as a one size fits all study design. Many study designs exist to accommodate clinical and population health research. Out of the many study designs, eight of them are common in health science research. Research projects may use components from a single design,…

To be completely honest, I had never heard of the terms biopower or biopolitics in my life, until reading Michael Foucault and your class. It is something that grabbed my attention specifically, and as I get older it gets easier to recognize how and why the government tries to control us. The cool thing about…