Noenyl Bryle Gonzaga June 14, 2017

Research 1

Tuskegee Study
1. What were the goals of the study?
- To observe the progress of syphilis among black people and withholding
treatment from them.
2. How was the study conducted?
- 400 black men were tested and unaware they were positive with syphilis
and instead were told they had “bad blood”. Penicillin (the effective cure
during that time) was not given to them and still they proceed with the
test with the 400 patients unaware of their condition. The study lasted
for 40 years until it was exposed and many died untreated.
3. What benefits/results/conclusions/information were derived from the
study?
- The study brought out better understanding on how syphilis would
progress and develop, therefore could be used for future studies on how
to treat syphilis better.
4. What ethical principles were violated?
- Beneficence
- Justice
- NonMaleficence
- Autonomy
 Nazi Human Experimentation
1. What were the goals of the study?
- To explore the limitations of the human body and creating the perfect
race (Aryan race)
2. How was the study conducted?
- Prisoners of war (mainly Jews), men, women and children were brought
to concentration camps to be experimented on. Freezing water
experimentation were done to determine how much would the body
withstand, and the prisoners froze to death. High altitude test were done
using decompression chambers to determine the best means to rescue
pilots who abandon the aircraft, 80 died and the rest were executed. The
doctors would dissect the brains of the prisoners while they were still
alive. They experimented on twins to help the Aryan race and repopulate
the world with germans.
3. What benefits/results/conclusions/information were derived from the
study?
- The Nazi were able to explore the human body’s limitation
4. What ethical principles were violated?
- Beneficence
- Justice
- NonMaleficence
- Autonomy
 Unit 731
1. What were the goals of the study?
5. To further advance biological warfare by using humans as test subjects.
2. How was the study conducted?
6. The Japanese army under the rule of the emperor developed and built Unit
731 for advance research on biological warfare. Prisoners of war, women,
children, Chinese and many more were used for the experimentation. They
were operated without anesthetic, organs were removed, tortured, burned
with flamethrowers, were forced to have frostbite, legs and arms torn off
and attached to other body parts. They were also injected with diseases and
then dissected alive, removed organ by organ without anesthesia and
examined how the disease affected/spread throughout the body and then
 they were burned. Women were raped and impregnated by prisoners or the
researchers and then injected of diseases.
3. What benefits/results/conclusions/information were derived from the
study?
7. The information about the study was kept by the Japanese and shared it
with the Americans.
4. What ethical principles were violated?
8. Beneficence
9. NonMaleficence
10.Autonomy
11.Justice