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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
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Strayer University
Jan-2007 - Present
Medical Ethics
Consider the following situation and write a summary of your opinion, framed around the reflection questions listed below:
If you were to ask Americans about the ethics of the German medical experiments performed on Jews during the Holocaust, they would (rightfully so) be appalled. Yet from 1932 to 1972, 400 African-American males in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study were denied treatment for syphilis and lied to by their health care providers in order to obtain information about the long-term effects of the untreated disease. Penicillin, a proven cure, became available in the 1950s but participants were denied treatment.
A similar example of withholding treatment is seen in that, although AZT is effective at reducing the advance of AIDS symptoms, it is expensive. Rather than providing AZT, companies are searching for less expensive treatments for indigent women in developing countries.
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