{"id":8309,"date":"2014-08-14T15:19:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T19:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/?page_id=8309"},"modified":"2014-08-14T15:19:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T19:19:46","slug":"tam-instructor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/journal\/past-issues\/issue-6\/tam\/tam-instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my WR 100 class \u201cEthical Missteps in Public Health,\u201d students explore key events in public health history\u2014and, more specifically, the Progressive Era\u2014that spurred the development of codes of ethics that continue to inform public health research and policy to this day. Prior to such codes, the conduct of doctors acting as researchers was guided primarily by subjective judgment, a model borrowed from the doctor-patient relationship and characterized by so-called \u201cmedical beneficence.\u201d\u00a0Not surprisingly, doctor reliance on subjective judgment was tainted with personal prejudice and misconceptions, including the belief that race, ethnicity and social status were confirmations of biological difference. Two public health milestones, the now notorious Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis and the 1927 Supreme Court Case <em>Buck v. Bell<\/em>, starkly illustrate the kinds of abuses that arise in the absence of stringent protections for human subjects.\u00a0It may be tempting for practitioners and students of public health to harshly judge the conduct of physicians whose research and social policies left a legacy of such profound human suffering. In her compelling and thorough exploration of these missteps, however, Jamie Tam argues for a more nuanced approach, cautioning that a perhaps more forgiving understanding of these events, informed by the context of their time, better serves the prevention of such missteps in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014 MELANIE SMITH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WR 100:\u00a0Ethical Missteps in Public Health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my WR 100 class \u201cEthical Missteps in Public Health,\u201d students explore key events in public health history\u2014and, more specifically, the Progressive Era\u2014that spurred the development of codes of ethics that continue to inform public health research and policy to this day. Prior to such codes, the conduct of doctors acting as researchers was guided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4801,"featured_media":0,"parent":8228,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8698,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8309\/revisions\/8698"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}