Event
1969 review of the Tuskegee study
Meeting of 6 February 1969 of an ad hoc committee, with Communicable Disease Center staff attending, on whether to end the Tuskegee study.
- Dates
- 6 Feb 1969
Connections 2
involved
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention its director and venereal disease staff attended or recorded Primary record 1
part of
- Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee 6 Feb 1969 Primary record 1
Timeline 2 dates
- 6 Feb 1969 1969 review of the Tuskegee study
- 6 Feb 1969 1969 review of the Tuskegee study part of Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee
Proof 1 source
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Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 28 Apr 1973.
Primary record
Dr . David J . Sencer Director, NCDC
In 1969 an Ad Hoc Committee reviewed the Tuskegee Study with the purpose : to examine data from the Tuskegee Study and offer advice on continuance of this study.
The purpose of the meeting was to determine if the Tuskegee Study should be terminated or continued.
This type of study would never be repeated .
There were certain medical facts to be learned by continuing the present study .
Treatment for these patients was not indicated unless they had signs of active syphilitic disease .
The three hours and ten minutes were not adequate for in-depth study of the broad issues, implications and ramifications of this study .
legal representatives and others from the non-medical community of scholars were not adequately represented for so sensitive a study
Danger of late Herxheimer's reaction which would worsen or possibly kill those syphilitic patients suffering from cardiovascular or neurological conditions.
recommended procedures for orderly termination of this study
Drs . Anne Yobs and Arnold L . Schroeter in separate memoranda
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