Unethical Treatment

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Assignment Instructions

The Willowbrook Study (Darr, 2011, pp. 114-116) is not the only research study that raised concerns about the ethical treatment of study participants. In fact, there were others many others including the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Please select only

Option #1. Summarize the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (in one paragraph). Why was this experiment unethical? Discuss the ethical issues that were raised as a result of the study.

Here are a few links that you may want to refer to:
http://www.tuskegee.edu/about_us/centers_of_excellence/bioethics_center/about_the_usphs_syphilis_study.aspx
http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm

Option #2:

If you would like to examine another study instead, feel free to do so. You must reference the article or website you used. Summarize. Why was the experiment unethical? Discuss the ethical issues raised as a result of the study?

Option #3
Milgram Study, 1961
Stanford Prison Study, 1970
Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital (cancer), 1963

Assignments are to be a minimum of 2 full pages of text and 3 reputable references in proper APA format.