The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

Independent research. Not affiliated with any government, agency, or company.

Agency

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • INF-5.5: The 1973 Health, Education, and Welfare ad hoc panel judged the Public Health Service syphilis study "ethically unjustified in 1932." A panel member's separate statement quotes a 1969 CDC review committee, "in part concerned with the possibility of adverse criticism," as reassured that with good liaison with the local medical society "there would be no need to answer criticism."

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 1068 28 April 1973. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service (Ad Hoc Advisory Panel): Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel
  • Exhibit 1235 12 July 1974. United States Congress: National Research Act, Pub. L. 93-348, 88 Stat. 342, section 212 (Institutional Review Boards)