Implicit Bias in Healthcare

The article discusses the research and the implications of the Tuskegee Syphilis study and explains regulations put in place so it doesn’t happen again. It is the beginning story to the requirement (and importance) of the informed consent process. It also discusses the $10 million dollar class action lawsuit and settlement those who died of[…]

The Holmesburg Prison was the site of several scientific experiments on the inmates, which raised ethical and moral questions about the extent to which humans can be experimented on. In many cases, inmates chose to undergo several inhumane trials for the sake of small monetary rewards. The prison was viewed as a human laboratory. It[…]

For non-therapeutic research involving a “minor increase over minimal risk” — the category in which the IRB at the psychiatric institute that ran the Fenfluramine study considered the trial — federal rules say that children may be subjected only to experiences that are “reasonably commensurate” with their actual or expected medical situations. Also, the study[…]

In the 1970’s a group of parents in Baltimore thought they were enrolling their boys in a free Johns Hopkins child-care program. More than 7,000 young boys — “95 percent from underprivileged Negro families” — were used as guinea pigs in a three-year experiment that could have branded them as latent criminals for life. Funded[…]

James Marion Sims  was an American physician and a pioneer in the field of surgery, both known as the “father of modern gynaecology” and as a controversial figure for the ethical approach to developing his techniques. His most significant work was the development of a surgical technique for the repair of vesicovaginal fistula, a severe[…]