Person
John C. Cutler
Public Health Service physician who worked on the Terre Haute and Guatemala experiments and, the Commission says, on the Tuskegee study.
- Also known as
- Dr. John Cutler
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- worked at U.S. Public Health Service 1942 –
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worked at
- U.S. Public Health Service 1942 – Primary record 1
involved in
- STD experiments in Guatemala directed the studies Primary record 1
- Terre Haute prison experiments ran the work at the prison Primary record 1
- Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee researcher on the study Primary record 12
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- 1942 – John C. Cutler worked at U.S. Public Health Service
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"Ethically Impossible": STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Sep 2011.
Primary record
Dr. Cutler, age 28, was relatively new to PHS, having joined in 1942
Dr. John C. Cutler, who directed the studies in Guatemala and later served as a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh
But, Kaempffert observed, it would be “ethically impossible” to undertake such research and “shoot living syphilis germs into human bodies.”
were about to begin doing just what Kaempffert described as being ethically impossible with prisoners and psychiatric patients in Guatemala.
Dr. Cutler also emphasized the need to increase secrecy and limit information about the program to those “who can be trusted not to talk.”
Dr. Cutler arrived in August 1946.
Upon reading the New York Times article, Dr. Cutler called it to the attention of his superior Dr. Mahoney, VDRL Director.
a “Note on Science” that appeared in the April 27 New York Times
Dr. Arnold wrote to Dr. Cutler that he was “a bit, in fact more than a bit, leary [sic] of the experiment with the insane people” as they “cannot give consent”
Dr. Arnold appeared primarily concerned about exposure to criticism, because if “some goody organization got wind of the work, they would raise a lot of smoke.”
that the idea for the research in Guatemala originated with Dr. Juan Funes, a Guatemalan physician who worked as a one-year fellow with Drs. Mahoney, Arnold, and Cutler at the VDRL in Staten Island in 1945
Dr. Carlos Salvado, the Director of the Psychiatric Hospital, collaborated on the syphilis and gonorrhea experiments and made staff available to assist the researchers.
Research staff for the Guatemala experiments included leaders and senior medical personnel of the government of Guatemala
Work at Terre Haute began in September 1943 under Dr. Mahoney’s leadership in Staten Island, and his young associate, Dr. Cutler, at the prison.
These convictions played a role in the PHS Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which Dr. Cutler also was involved as a primary researcher in the 1950s
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Tuskegee Truth Teller, The American Scholar, 4 Dec 2017.
Scholarship & press
John Cutler, an assistant surgeon general and venereal disease specialist who was deeply involved in the Tuskegee study
Buxtun responded by reading from one of Cutler’s own reports, which stated clearly that the subjects would never have agreed to the study without the “suasion” of burial expenses.
This is something they are doing as volunteers.
I wanted to look up German war crimes proceedings
I directly compared the work of the CDC in Atlanta, in Tuskegee, to what the Nazis had done
See here, young man. This is serious work we are doing.
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