“The Researcher's Dilemma: Childhood Lead Poisoning, Academia, and the Continuing Tragedy of a Preventable Epidemic”
Speaker: David Rosner, Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Science and History, Columbia University, Co-Director of the Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health
Date and Time: February 29, 2012 12:00pm-1:30pm, Claire Fagin Hall Room 300
Abstract: : In 2001 the
Appeals Court of Maryland compared research conducted at Johns Hopkins to Nazi
human experimentation and the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiments. Some
wrote this decision off as hyperbole; others as a condemnation of the public
health research community. This presentation will focus on how this crisis
evolved both at Hopkins and more broadly the nation. It will trace what the
controversy says about the dilemma of public health research in the late
twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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