Chapter 11: The Challenge of Global Bioethics
Case Presentation: “The Devil’s Experiment”—STD Research in Guatemala draws upon
“Ethically Impossible”: STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948 (Washington, D.C.: Presidential
Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, 2011); Matthew Walter, “Human Experiments: First, Do
Harm,” Nature 482, no. 7384 (2012): 148–152; Spencer McFarlane, “President’s Bioethics Commission
Continues Review of Guatemalan Syphilis Experiments,” Biopolitical Times, May 26, 2011; Rory Carroll,
“Guatemala Victims of US Syphilis Study Still Haunted by the ‘Devil’s Experiment,’ ” The Guardian, June 8,
2011; Kara Rogers, “Guatemala Syphilis Experiment,” Encyclopaedia Britannica; Susan M. Reverby, “After
Information for the Social Context: Clinical Trials in the Developing World draws on New York
Times articles by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “U.S. AIDS Research Abroad Sets Off Outcry Over Ethics,”
September 18, 1997; and “Placebo Use Is Suspended In Overseas AIDS Trials,” February 19, 1998; by
Howard W. French, “AIDS Research in Africa: Juggling Risks and Hopes,” October 9, 1997; by Tamar
Lewin, “Families Sue Pfizer on Test Of Antibiotic,” August 30, 2001; and by Donald G. McNeil, Jr.,
“Nigerians Receive First Payments for Children Who Died in 1996 Meningitis Drug Trial,” August 11, 2011.
For the Trovan trial, also see the following Washington Post articles: by Joe Stephens, “Panel Faults Pfizer
Updates to Social Context: Pandemic—AIDS Worldwide draw on the following sources:
“Statistics Worldwide,” amfAR, July 2015; “Africa’s Orphaned
and Vulnerable Generations: Children Affected by AIDS,” UNICEF, August 2006; “Children Orphaned by
HIV and AIDS,” Avert, March 27, 2014; Dick Durevall and
Case Presentation: Cutting and Culture is based on the following sources: Jacinta Nandi,
“Germany Got It Right by Offering a Third Gender Option on Birth Certificates,” The Guardian, November
10, 2013; Julie Turkewitz, “A Fight as U.S. Girls Face Genital Cutting Abroad,” The New York Times, June
10, 2014; UNFPA, “Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Frequently Asked Questions,” United Nations
Population Fund, June 2015; “ ‘I’m Not Whole’—Female Genital Mutilation Survivor Speaks Out,” UN News
Centre, February 6, 2015; Tina Rosenberg, “Editorial Observer; Mutilating Africa’s Daughters: Laws
Unenforced, Practices Unchanged,” The New York Times, July 5, 2004; Celia W. Dugger, “Report Finds
Gradual Fall in Female Genital Cutting in Africa,” The New York Times, July 22, 2013; Sara Corbett, “A
Cutting Tradition,” The New York Times Magazine, January 20, 2008; Nicholas Kristof, “A Rite of Torture
for Girls,” The New York Times, May 11, 2011; Charlotte Lytton, “FGM Survivor: ‘The Pain Was So Bad, I
Prayed to God to Take Me Then and There,’ ” The Telegraph, February 6, 2015; Department of
Reproductive Health and Research, “Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation,” World Health Organization,
The Chapter 11 Briefing Session is based upon Edwin S. Grosvenor and Morgan Wesson,
Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone (New York: Harry
Abrams, 1997), 274–275; Patrick Lynch, “Secrets from the Past Point to Rapid Climate Change in the
Future,” NASA, December 15, 2011; “How Much Has the Global Temperature Risen in the Last 100
