Critical Paper

Critical Paper

The US is also the only Western democracy with few restrictions on access to firearms, with gun lobbyists claiming they need guns for defense against "crime", which implicitly references blacks and Latinos. The racial underpinnings of American politics also cause the majority of the public to favor law enforcement as a "solution" to crime over social support programs that would alleviate the stresses that cause much of it. The imprisonment of people has become a very lucrative enterprise.

The Tuskegee study of the untreated syphilis was considered as the most horrible scandals in the history of American medicine in the 20th century. There were 400 men died in Alabama for the sake of scientific experiments which were based on unethical methods and, produced no new knowledge about syphilis. The elements of the study prevented individuals to see physicians for a long time and, as a result, several individuals had died in painful death, several became blind, or insane and, children had taken birth with congenital syphilis (Amitai Etzioni, 1996). According to Allan Brand, the study of Tuskegee is considered as the result of enduring American Racism. In 1950s, when penicillin became available for the treatment for syphilis, individuals did not receive cure and, on different occasions, the USPHS sought to stop treatment. In addition, a committee at the federally operated Center for Disease control had decided that, study would be continued.

In 1972, it was found that, seventy four of the test subjects were not dead but, more than 100 had died, because of the enhancement of the syphilitic lesions. There was the report issued against this test and, considered as the ethically unjustified and, argued that, individuals would have penicillin. The critical aspect of the paper is to discuss that, there are ethical implications in the Tuskegee Study in ...