Content Warning: In this documentary there are images of people with syphilis and people who were victims of experiments performed by the Nazi doctors during the Holocaust. Note from author: I am not an expert on this subject and I encourage you to learn more from outside resources. Recommended book: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (By: Harriet A Washington) Chapter 7 provides a detailed history of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. This is my 2014 National History Day Documentary. The theme is rights and responsibilities. I competed in the senior individual documentary division. This documentary is about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study which was an unethical research experiment that took place in Macon County, Alabama from 1932 to 1972.
Declaration of Helsinki - the Declaration of Helsinki and placebo use. The Helsinki Declaration of Human Rights. The concept of research when the Declaration of Helsinki was written is different than the modern definition. 10 years ago the Helsinki Declaration established a renewed focus on patient safety across the medical fields in Europe. In 1975, all the states in Europe signed the Helsinki Declaration.
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