Thesis
Spurred on by a well-entrenched practice of Social Darwinism and induced by an obligation to rid the country of "bad blood," the Tuskegee Syphilis Study conducted research on African-Americans without their expressed consent. United States Public Health Service physicians ignored their moral responsibilities to the participants, violating their most basic human rights. Highlighting controversial research procedures, the experiments prompted the government to question its responsibilities by reviewing its biomedical policies and legalizing new ethical codes to protect the rights of human subjects in medical research.
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Images taken from National Archives.
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