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No, not necessarily. People donate kidneys all the time, which is a serious procedure with non-negligible chances of short- and long-term complications. And n
by da_big_ghey 6y ago
No, not necessarily. People donate kidneys all the time, which is a serious procedure with non-negligible chances of short- and long-term complications. And non-medically, people risk their lives to help others all the time. The difference between ethical medical research and the Tuskegee experiments is informed consent.
- rkangel 6y agoInformed consent is by far the most important thing missing in the Tuskegee study, but it is not the only thing. To give one example of the complexity of medical ethics: occasionally when running clinical trials, the results are so GOOD that it becomes unethical to not stop the trial and give the drug to the control group.