Remind me why I have to get IRB approval for my research…
You’ve probably heard of the shocking ethics violations of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments and medical experiments by Nazi physicians but did you know that in 1946, American…
Public Health Service (PHS) researchers intentionally exposed over 1,300 non-consenting Guatemalan soldiers, prisoners, psychiatric patients, and commercial sex workers to gonorrhea, syphilis, and/or chancroid…
Dr. Paul Lombardo, Georgia State’s Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law and Senior Advisor to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Associate Director of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues have published a new article detailing the Guatemala experiments and their lack of oversight.
Spector-Bagdady K, Lombardo PA. “Something of an Adventure”: Postwar NIH Research Ethos and the Guatemala STD Experiments. J Law Med Ethics. 2013 Sep;41(3):697-710. doi: 10.1111/jlme.12080.
The Georgia State University Library has many resources to help you investigate research ethics, be they related to humans, stem cells or animals.
- “Ethically impossible” STD research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948 Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks RC265.6.L24 S55 2010, Library North 3
- Ethics for graduate researchers a cross-disciplinary approach Electronic Resource
- The ethics of animal research: Exploring the controversy R853.A53 E84 2012, Library North 3
- Behind closed doors: IRBs and the making of ethical research R852.5 .S837 2012, Law General Stacks
- Evidence, ethos and experiment: The anthropology and history of medical research in Africa R725.5 .E93 2011, Library North 3
- What are qualitative research ethics? Electronic Resource
- Examining Tuskegee: The infamous syphilis study and its legacy R853.H8 R48 2009, Library North 3
- Ethical considerations for research involving prisoners R853.H8 E84 2007, Library North 3
- Biobanks and tissue research: The public, the patient and the regulation QH332 .B496 2011, Library South 4
- Professional lives, personal struggles: Ethics and advocacy in research on homelessness HV4480 .P76 2012, Library North 4
Review the timeline of human medical experimentation from the NIH Office of Extramural Research here and familiarize yourself with Georgia State’s Institutional Review Board guidelines.