Bioethics Review

Nuremburg Medical Trials

• occurred after WWII

• occurred after WWI

• involved Dr. Josef Mengele since he was a friendly doctor

A nurse accidentally leaves a sponge inside a surgical wound.

• malgractice
• negligence
• invasion of privacy 

the difference between libel and slander

• libel is spoken and slander is written
• both are written false statements
• libel is written and slander is spoken

Children didn’t receive the education they were promised. Children were tested on.

• Nazi Trials
• Willowbrook 
• Monster Study 

Children were infected with Hepatitis A and B.

• Germany

• Willowbrooke

• Yellowbrooke

• State Island New York

As a result of this study vaccination rates declined.

• Wakefield

• Poehlman

• Robert S. Smith

• none of the above

This investigator was sentenced to prison for falsifying his data on the elderly.

• Wakefield

• Poehlman

• Gelsinger

• None of these

This person died as a result of participating in a clinical trial.

• Jesse Gelsinger

• Alex Gelsinger

• Julius Caesar

• none of the above

This country had people involuntarily enrolled in a syphilis study.

• France

• Jamaica

• Guatemala

• Haiti

How many men participated in the Tuskegee study? How many had syphilis?

• 600 men: 399 had syphilis, 201 did not

• 500 men: 250 had syphilis, 250 did not

• 1000 men: 750 had syphilis, 250 did not

• 700: 489 had syphilis, 211 did not