Hoai Cao
PHIL 1200
Tuskegee Effect Response 1. African Americans have historically faced discrimination and abuse within the U.S. medical system. Abner Sims is a forty-six-year-old African American male. So, he grew up in an era of medicine where he had witnessed and heard about deep distrust among African American of the American medical system. He is considered to be an example of the “Tuskegee effect” because he shows his disbelief to his doctors and told them that all black people are experimental subjects to medical researchs. 2. If a nonhierarchial, nonauthoritarian approach means that medical practioners have respect for other’s beliefs, values, and practices and not impose their own upon them, then I think it could do a better job of gaining the trust of those like Abner Sims. 3. If the African American perspective is rooted in social action and a commitment to justice, the medical providers have to show that there are equalities in the health care system. Patients are patients and we provide equal treatments regards of racial, cultural and religious differences. 4. Physicians and the medical establishment need to be mindful of how ethnic, religious, and cultural differences can affect the practice of medicine and the attitudes of the people involved. They need to go to accommodate the views and wishes of patients and their families. Treatments and alternative treatments have to be addressed and negotiated to patients, but final decisions are upon their wishes and we should value their wishes.