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Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Over 600 impoverished sharecroppers were studied by the U.S Public Health Service. The people involved in the study did were not aware of their condition and were denied medicine/ counseling. The study was stopped after the public was aware but the disease already spread to many others which could have been prevented. -
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Nazi Concentration Camp Experiments
“Experiments” such as unnecessary surgeries without anesthesia, sleep deprivation, and starvation were performed on people of the non Arian race. -
Nuremberg Code
A code that was created for ethical reasons to guide future research and studies that was drafted after world war 2. Some of the main points were that voluntary consent from the subject was needed, the subject could discountinue participation at anytime, and studies needed to be conducted by scientifically qualified people. -
Tearoom Trade Study
Laud Humphrey pretended to a member of the homosexual community to observe behavior that went on in tearooms. The study was very unethical since he did not get consent from his subjects and deceived them to get interviews. -
Federal Grant requirements
All researches that were in need of a federal grant or funding for their studies were required to have a complete education on the protection of human research participations.