Research Question: Has the history of medical science been built on the foundation of unethical medical research/experimentation on African Americans?
Summary: This source was a not set up as article but as a list of ethical procedures that need to be taken when using human subjects. So i will about listing the most important and those that help support my argument.
- The World Medical Association binds the physicians with the words, "The health of my patients will be my first consideration."
- "A physician shall act only in the patient's interest when providing medical care which might have the effect of weakening the physical and mental condition of the patient"
- the well-being of the human subject should take precedence over the interests of science and society
- it is the duty of the physician in medical research to protect the life, health, privacy, and dignity of the human subject
- Medical research involving human subjects should be conducted only by scientifically qualified persons and under the supervision of a clinically competent medical person
- The subjects must be volunteers and informed participants in the research project
One of my sources argued that if these ethics were put into place during the time of these events then they still would have occurred. That would be making the experiments unethical either way. Because there have been so many unethical experiments, it caused the implementation of these standards. Based on these standards we have today, I believe that even though they did not exist in the past, what the subjects went through was beyond unethical.
I am not sure how to cite this source.
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