TUSKEEGEE TRIBUNAL HOMEWORK You have been assigned a role in the Tuskegee study.
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TUSKEEGEE TRIBUNAL HOMEWORK You have been assigned a role in the Tuskegee study. Please use the readings (Overview and your assigned role) to answer the following questions in the blackboard discussion board forum: MY ROLE IS Buxton and Reverby 1) Do you think that the original idea for the Tuskegee study was an ethical one? Why/Why not? 2) When do you think the Tuskegee study became unethical? What were the factors that made it so? 3) Why do you think that so many African Americans agreed to participate in the study? 4) How long did the study go on for? 5) Who provided funding for the study? 6) What did the scientists who conducted the study think that they would find out? 7) Why do you think that the scientists felt justified in carrying out the study? 8) DIG DEEPER QUESTION: As a result of studies like this one, in 1979, the Belmont Report made recommendations about how research must be conducted. Nowadays, all research involving human participants must be approved by an ethics review board (institutional review board or IRB) that protects the rights of research participants. What ethical issues might the IRB point out to the researchers if the Tuskegee Study was submitted for approval today?
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1) Yes, the original idea Tuskegee study was ethical. Because the idea of the study was to give free for syphilis.
2) When the study was conducted 600 black men were involved, around 399 men were having syphilis but other 201 did not have the disease which made it unethical. 201 men did not have disease but also they were involved in the study, and the study was conducted without the benefit of patients' informed consent. Researchers told the men they were being treated for “bad blood.
3) They took part in the study because, the men received free medical exams, free meals, and burial insurance.
4)The actual project lasted for 6 months, but the study was still going on for 40 years.
5)U.S. government-funded research projects
6)Scientist thought they would find out natural history of syphilis in hopes of justifying treatment programs for blacks.
7)Scientist conducted the study for the benefits of the black men, who were suffering from syphilis. So the intention was good in the start but later it turned out to be evil.
8) In today’s time if Tuskegee study was conducted than IRB have seen that no violation of human rights take place. The board have certain responsibility towards the participants and they will look in to this no rules are violated.
A) All research projects involving the use of human subjects must be submitted to the IRB for approval. If it is unclear whether the proposed research involves human subjects, the investigator should seek assistance from the assistant dean for Research or the IRB chair.
B) The IRB will have a scheduled full board meeting at least once per month in order to review protocols requiring full board review.
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