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The Guatemala syphilis experiments were United States-led human experiments conducted in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948. The experiments were led by physician John Charles Cutler , who also participated in the late stages of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment .
Syphilis experiments were also carried out in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948. They were United States-sponsored human experiments, conducted during the government of Juan José Arévalo with the cooperation of some Guatemalan health ministries and officials.
Mahoney led human experiments in Terre Haute prison and was a supervisor of the Guatemala syphilis experiments, the latter of which involved the deliberate spread of syphilis and gonorrhea to unwitting patients, which included orphan children. These experiments are today widely deemed as unethical.
A subject of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment has his blood drawn, c. 1953.. Numerous experiments which were performed on human test subjects in the United States in the past are now considered to have been unethical, because they were performed without the knowledge or informed consent of the test subjects. [1]
In one especially "offensive" case from the Guatemala experiments, a mental patient named Bertha was first deliberately infected with syphilis and given penicillin only months later. Cutler, after observing that she "appeared she was going to die", inserted pus from a male gonorrhea victim into her eyes, urethra and rectum.
The origins of syphilis — a sexually transmitted infection that devastated 15th century Europe and is still prevalent today — have remained murky, difficult to study and the subject of some ...
Guatemala syphilis experiments; U. United States Public Health Service Syphilis Studies This page was last edited on 29 November 2019, at 22:27 (UTC). ...
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