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67 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1171 (2016-2017)
Exploitation in Medical Research: The Enduring Legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

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CASE  WESTERN   RESERVE   LAW  REVIEW  - VOLUME  67 - ISSUE 4 - 2017


                   EXPLOITATION IN

               MEDICAL RESEARCH:

      THE ENDURING LEGACY OF THE

          TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDY


                        Ruqaiijah  Yearbyt

                            CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION              ............................................................1172
I.   MEDICAL   RESEARCH   STUDIES   INVOLVING  CHILDREN:   THE
     STRUCTURE  AND HISTORY........................................ 1177
     A. Structure of Medical Research Studies Involving Human Subjects .... 1178
     B. The Belmont Report.................................... 1181
     C. The Common Rule.....................................1187
II.  INCLUSION, EXPLOITATION, AND BIAS .................. ............. 1190
     A. Inclusion                    ............................................. 1191
     B. Using Inclusion  to Exploit.............................    1192
     C. Bias in Health Care....................................1198
        1. Structural Racial Bias .............................. ...... 1198
        2. Institutional Racial Bias  .....................    ......... 1205
     D. The Effect of Bias on Medical Research.....................1208
III. ENSURING JUSTICE IS FULFILLED   .................................... 1211
     A. Ending Exploitation: Human Development Approach......    ...... 1212
        1. Theory                     ................................................. 1212
        2. Human Development in the U.S................      ............ 1215
        3. Applying the Approach to U.S. Research .......    ............. 1216
     B. Measuring Justice: Vulnerability and Equity Impact Assessment Tool
         ...................................               ...... 1218
         1. The VEIA     ................................. ....... ........... 1221
         2. Applying the VEIA ............................ .......... 1223


t    Associate Dean of Institutional Diversity and Inclusiveness and the David L.
     Brennan Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
     B.A. (Honors Biology), University of Michigan, 1996; J.D., Georgetown
     University Law Center, 2000; M.P.H., Johns Hopkins School of Public
     Health, 2000. I would like to thank Ifeoma Ajunwa, Deleso Alford, Devonya
     Havis, Cynthia Ho, Isabel Marcus, Teresa Miller, Stephanie Phillips, and
     Rebecca Redwood for their insightful comments. I would also like to thank
     my  former research assistants, Samantha Malusky, Nadia Chaudhry,
     Maureen Polen, and Di Zhang. Finally, I would like to thank Chad Aronson
     and the other student editors of the Case Western Reserve Law Review for
     their diligent work in hosting the symposium honoring Fred Gray and pub-
     lishing this volume. A draft of this article was presented at the 2015 Lutie
     A. Lytle Black Female Faculty Writing Workshop and the 37th Annual
     ASMLE  Health Law Professors Conference.


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