In 1997 it was the then U.S. president, Bill Clinton, having to publicly apologize to the victims of the infamous Tuskegee study, which for over 40 years-from 1932 to about 400 197-2 cotton pickers Alabama infected with syphilis were deliberately left without care then existing, penicillin (dell'apologia The official video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1A-YP24QwA).
With public apology of the President of the United States had arrived too large loans, which had allowed the establishment of the Center for Bioethics of Tuskegee, was officially inaugurated in 1999 (http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/category.asp? C = 35,026).
Now, almost 15 years later, it was for the wife of Bill Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton Rhodham, apologize publicly for another trial that looks incredibly to Tuskegee. There is still a name that refers to the study, but they are aware of the injection and repeated the syphilis bacterium in at least 700 people unaware of everything, which took place in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948, when in fact about 700 people, including prisoners, the sick mental and soldiers-those in bioethics today would surely call the categories "vulnerable" - have been infected with syphilis, then to verify the effectiveness of penicillin as a treatment. Unlike the Tuskegee study, in fact, the sick and was given penicillin.
types of modes of infection were: a) infected prostitutes were paid to infect the "clients", b) to other inmates, so obviously the option a) could not be reversed, the bacteria were directly cut played on the genitalia, face or limbs of men, or c) in some cases even a needle puncture.
Apart from the scenario of injection through prostitutes, then it is difficult to think that the poor were being kept without realizing that something strange was happening not!
The experiment was brought to light by Susan M. Reverby, a professor at Wellesley College, che aveva inizialmente presentato le sue ricerche sul caso ad una conferenza lo scorso gennaio, senza però aver ottenuto un'attenzione particolare. Questa è arrivata nel giugno di quest'anno, quando Reverby ha mandato una bozza dell'articolo che stava preparando sul caso per il Journal of Policy History al Dr. David J. Sencer, ex direttore del Centro per il Controllo delle Malattie in US. E' stato quindi il Dr Spencer -apparentemente dotato di più potere politico della professoressa Reverby- a spingere il governo statunitense a iniziare investigazioni più approfondite sul caso.
La professoressa Reverby afferma di essere incappata in alcuni documenti che parlavano del caso in Guatemala all'Università di Pittsburgh già nel 1985. The documents were signed by Dr. Cutler, principal investigator of the study in Guatemala and-feel-feel involved even after the Tuskegee study. The eminent Dr Cutler has continued to defend the scientific value and ethics until his death.
Among the public reactions to Hillary Clinton's apology, it seems interesting to report that Professor Mark Siegler, director of the MacLean Center for Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago, according to the study in Guatemala is much worse than the Tuskegee in the Tuskegee study the men were already infected and he was not given the available treatment, while in the study in Guatemala men were deliberately infected (Remarks of Professor Siegler is located on the New York Times from which I took the information and which can be read here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/health/research/02infect. html? _r = 1 & hp). What is better then
: deliberately infecting men (by various means more or less pleasant, as we saw above) and then treat them (and thus possibly save them), knowingly or not to treat people already infected and socially disadvantaged?
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