1. Research ethical principles of respect for persons, beneficence, and justice as they relate to the Tuskegee syphilis study.
2. Elements of the Nuremberg Code of 1947 and the Belmont Report. Why were each written and how do they relate these to the Tuskegee syphilis study.
3. Universal Declaration of Human Rights and what, if any, violations of these rights occurred in the Tuskegee syphilis study.
4. Offer your comments about the nurse in the Tuskegee syphilis study and her role in the study. Who is this nurse? What was her role in the study? Discuss how she dealt with the potential or actual ethical conflicts. Were her actions justified, ethical or not?
5. Discuss the differences in the researchers’ behavior from the Tuskegee study era (early 1930s until early 1970s) compared to the expectations for researchers’ ethical behavior in the present time.