Category Archives: #5. Ethical research methods

The Willowbrook State School, located in New York, was completed in 1942 for mental retarded children. Infectious hepatitis was first observed at Willowbrook in 1949.  Statistics indicated that the annual attack rate of hepatitis was 25 per 1,000 among children … Continue reading →

The Tuskegee Institute, with financial backing through the Julius Rosenwald Fund and the U.S. Public Health Service, attempted to research the effects of penicillin on African-American subjects infected with syphilis.  Although it seemed that the project began with good intentions … Continue reading →

This study, conducted by Wendell Johnson and grad student Mary Tutor at the University of Iowa in 1939, attempted to study the causes of stuttering in children. The state-funded research attempted to determine if negative feedback could induce stuttering in … Continue reading →

During the apartheid years from 1969 to 1987 in South Africa, the medical and psychiatric personnel of the South African Defense Force were involved in a wide range of severe prisoner abuses, the majority of which stemmed from continual attempts … Continue reading →