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Ethical Lapses in Dermatologic "Research"
Allen M. Hornblum
From the Department of Geography & Urban Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
Arch Dermatol. 1999;135:383-385.
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A number of months ago in the ARCHIVES, Dr Philip C. Anderson, in a discussion of the state of contemporary medical ethics, urged his colleagues, "We must truly be moral."1 In an effort "to meet a higher standard of reliability and morality," Dr Anderson counseled dermatologists to "look at our failures even more closely than . . . our successes." As we look back on this century, it is obvious that a number of vulnerable populations have been subjected to abuse by physicians and scientists engaged in research. For example, from the 1930s to the 1970s, physicians of the US Public Health Department used hundreds of black sharecroppers in Macon County, Alabama, for a study of syphilis in which the syphilitics among them went untreated.2 In 1963, cancer researchers used 2 dozen senile hospital patients for studies of immunity, (personal interview with Dr Chester Southam, June, 1998) . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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