AMST 203 - Class Notes - Week 11

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Hannah Millirons Medicine in America November 22, 2016 Notes Week 11  Class Notes o Tuskegee studies  Knowingly withheld treatment to syphilis patients  Made physicians also withhold treatments  Blatantly lied about the pretenses and information about the study  Made patients sign an “informed consent,” when they weren’t
informed about the actual practices behind the study  Set up the study based on the assumption that the blacks being
tested were too stupid to know any better  In 1974, wives, widows, and offspring of the deceased patients from this
study were added to a benefits program to help with medical benefits and
burials for the participants o Peter Buxtun  Whistleblower in Tuskegee Syphilis Studies  Went to University of Oregon  Psychiatrist in Army o Sickness and Health in America  Page 400  Brandt quotes Claude Bernard on human experimentation in 1865 o Says that principals of protecting human subjects are well known and there are limits o We should conduct studies on people if their lives could be saved from the studies o NMA  Black physicians were excluded from AMA, so NMA was started to allow
them to be a part of their own group  National Medical Association  Restricted access to whites  Attempted to increase the number of African Americans who went to
Medical School o Margaret Heckler  Secretary of Health during the Regan administration  Set up a task force on minority health o Life expectancy among African Americans and Whites  White death rates are going up and life expectancy is going down  Obesity, which leads to diabetes

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