This site presents lengthy articles on various aspects of professional and medical ethics. Articles are scholarly. Back issues are available, and there is a list of abstracts to articles from other journals. Back to the top of the page. The Legacy of the Tuskeegee Syphilis Study Documents from and a report of one of the U.S. Public Health system's most egregious ethical blunders.
Subjects covered include racism, lack of informed consent, and human experimentation.
Many of these human experiments involved little or no informed consent. The story of human experimentation that led to a means of preventing Yellow Fever. Historical documents are a part of this web site. Topics covered include informed consent and treatment of African Americans and Latinos. Back to the top of the page.