The rights and wrongs of intentional exposure research: Contextualising the Guatemala STD inoculation study

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 513-515

  Lynch, Holly Fernandez ^a  

^a HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHICS; GONORRHEA; GUATEMALA; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESEARCH ETHICS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; ULCUS MOLLE; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CHANCROID; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHICS, RESEARCH; GONORRHEA; GUATEMALA; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84866342608     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: 14734257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2011-100379     Document Type: Article

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