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United States Apologizes for Unethical Medical Research in Guatemala in 1940s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2011

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References

1 An article by Reverby on her research is at http://www.wellesley.edu/WomenSt/fac_reverby.html. Additional background material by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is at http://www.hhs.gov/1946inoculationstudy/.

2 Donald G., McNeil Jr., U.S. Infected Guatemalans with Syphilis in ‘40s, N.Y. Times, Oct. 2, 2010, at A1 Google Scholar; Stein, Rob, U.S. Infected Guatemalans for STD Tests, Wash. Post, Oct. 2, 2010, at A1 Google Scholar; The Experiments in Guatemala, Editorial, N.Y. Times, Oct. 8, 2010, at A22 Google Scholar.

3 White House Press Release, Read-Out of the President’s Call with Guatemalan President Colom (Oct. 1, 2010), at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/10/01/read-out-presidents-call-with-guatemalan-president-colom.

4 U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release No. 2010/1385, Joint Statement by Secretaries Clinton and Sebelius on a 1946–1948 Study (Oct. 1, 2010), at http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/10/148464.htm.