Bioethics

Study Guide on the Guatemala STD Inoculation Studies

By Holly Fernandez Lynch Talk about perfect timing.  Just on the heels of Tuesday’s fantastic event at HLS on the Guatemala STD Inoculation studies (video to come soon), the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has released A Study Guide for “Ethically Impossible” STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948.  This is the Commission’s…

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By Holly Fernandez Lynch

Talk about perfect timing.  Just on the heels of Tuesday’s fantastic event at HLS on the Guatemala STD Inoculation studies (video to come soon), the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has released A Study Guide for “Ethically Impossible” STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948.  This is the Commission’s first foray into pedagogy, and an absolutely fantastic way to keep the discussion going.  Be sure to check it out, and to share widely.

 

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  • Holly Fernandez Lynch

    Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBioethics, was Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School from 2012 to 2017. She is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM), University of Pennsylvania.

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