The arousal of Tuskegee Experiment is a widely condemned experiment during 1940 in Macon Country. It was a study that evidently shows an allegedly increasing of deliberate racism. According to some research; it’s like an epidemical disease on how we rationalize insufficient or invalid justification. This experiment was acceptably immoral, and shows the unethical side yet there were moral justifications, but it has been described as case of overt racism. According to US National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health, those involved used these justifications to suppress and subdue their moral intuitions means the researchers rationalizations offered at the time, but such justifications can also be made in the present for the past actions of others, though the motives for doing so are different. We use the idea of rationalization to explore recent accounts of what have been widely regarded as unethical medical studies.
The objective of whole experiment was to conduct a record of medical history of syphilis, that they called “Tuskegee experiment” that was exclusively just for blacks regarding to the belief that it has dissimilar effect according to race. It clearly deceived participants they were told they were receiving treatment when they were not which shows unethical considerations. The researchers told the men they were being treated for “bad blood,” a word used to describe several ailments, including syphilis. In truth, they did not receive the proper treatment needed to cure their illness. It’s like the researchers seen them as predators and like animals. In exchange for taking part in the study, the men received free medical exams, free meals, and burial insurance. The study lasted for 6 to 8 months, but it turned into a long-term study that continued for 40 years. This statement is considered to be symbolic representative unethical research and of the failures of professional self-regulation but also several proclamations that morbidity and mortality because of the participation during this study.
Moreover, it is a comparable study between white and black which delinquently triggers the political focus on saving African Americans and women enabled the wider public to see the racism and mistreatment. Finally, the rationalizations tell us something important about research ethics today. Both the Tuskegee study and the unfortunate experiment should be critically well studied because it’s at stake. But it can be a continuous experiment that will examine and broaden the researcher’s adherence on human experimentation in life. Also, it broadens our knowledge of researchers to give significance on ethical considerations in finding as solution regarding to syphilis and other ailments. Also, depicts the development of equalization of rights of an individual because as moral philosopher Jonathan Glover writes, a code of ethics “should include the imagination to look through the rules to the human reality. Codes and guidelines are necessary, but they require thoughtful moral interpretation, alert to context. Those who rationalize mistakes made in the past impair our ability to make just decisions today”
