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We are a diverse, Boston-based group of citizens providing feedback on medical ethics policies to the Harvard teaching hospitals. Community Voices and its affiliate Community Ethics Committee give the multiple communities of Boston a voice in the care they rely on. Investigate our blog, read our reports, and add your voice!
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Michelle DeBinion de Contreras gives her perspective as a recent member of the Community Ethics Committee. She comments on the ethical scandal regarding syphilis research conducted in Guatemala in the 1940s which the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has recently addressed.
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Yvonne Joyner explains how she became involved in the work of the Community Ethics Committee. She shares her point of view on the ethical complexities surrounding the use of CPR on patients at the end of life, and remarks on the difficulty of ethical consideration of children's organ donation. Yvonne gives her perspective on the Tuskegee syphilis study, noting the importance of sensitivity to racial differences in a full understanding of both this scandal and the Guatemalan syphilis research of the 1940s.
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