Henrietta Lack Powerpoint

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Medical Research

Ethics Blunders


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The Nuremberg Code

December 9th, 1946

Twenty three German scientists and

physicians were charged with crimes against

humanity.

Experiments were conducted on members of

concentration camps without permission.

Most died or were crippled.


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Nuremberg Trials


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As a Result

The Nuremberg Code was written in 1948 in

order to provide guidelines for medical

consent and volunteering for medical

experiments.

It was not a formal law.


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Tuskegee Syphilis Study

A study carried out by the U.S. Public Health

Service.

They kept track of 400 poverty stricken,

syphilis infected males for 40 years.

The subjects were provided with free medicalexams, but the doctors did not tell them about

the disease.


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Tuskegee Syphilis Study

(cont.) Even after Penicillin was discovered to cure

Syphilis the studies were continued.

In 1972, the U.S. Department of Health,

Education, and Welfare stopped studies after

they were discovered.

Amends were made with the test subjects and

families in 1997 by President Clinton.


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Present-Day

Rules

They are called Common Rule.

The rules are shared by 17 different

Departments and Agencies.


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What does the Common

Rule consist of?

Requirements for assuring compliance by

research institutions.

Protections for higher risk research subjects.

Requirements having to do with informedconsent.


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What does this have to do

with Henrietta Lacks?

At this time there were not many ethics codesin the medical field. Many doctors believed

that since they were providing free healthcare

the patients should have no problem with

testing. Henrietta was unknowingly part of atest which benefited the world.


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