...were actually being studied in order to understand the clinical effects of syphilis on the human body. As a result of the outrage over the immorality of...research on human subjects in the United States to this day. The Tuskegee study gave birth to the key mechanisms for protecting human rights in the context...

...situations, the ethics of clinical research became an arena of suspicion and mistrust. As a result, in 1974, The National Commission for the Protection...Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research was established. It examined the issue of human experimentation and explored its ethical and human rights...