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Sankofan Socio-ethical Reflections: The Tuskegee University National Bioethics Center’s Decade of Operation, 1999–2009
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 21, Number 3, August 2010 Supplement
- pp. 6-20
- 10.1353/hpu.0.0365
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Primarily, this is a Sankofan socio-ethical analysis of the moral foundation of the Tuskegee University National Bioethics Center’s decade of operation. The first section of the study will do the following: a) a Sankofan socio-ethical analysis of the Center’s raison d’être; and b) definitions of ethical terms and the social world of the infamous syphilis study. The second section, as a result of the analysis, will address the Center’s following challenges: c) the Center’s challenge of theory and practice; d) the Center’s challenge of moral heritage; and e) the Center’s challenge of the future.