Beginning with the Nazi Doctors» Trial at the 1946 Nuremberg Trial (1), coverage includes publication of Henry Beecher's «Ethics and Clinical Research» (2), The New York Times exposure of the public health service
syphilis study in Macon County, Alabama (the infamous «Tuskeegee
case»)(3), the University of Pennsylvania / Gelsinger gene transfer
case, and The Washington Post series
on international clinical drug testing abuses (4).
Even then, up until a few years ago,
syphilis was
on the wane in the latter group with only 123
cases notified in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people nationally in 2009.