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Answer the following questions regarding the Tuskegee Experiment, and provide citations in APA format.

- What recommendations could you make to the researchers to safeguard the ethical standards for research in the Tuskegee Study? Do you think the study could be done ethically at all? Support your conclusion.
- How was the Tuskegee Experiment able to continue for several decades without being stopped?

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This solution provides a short review of the ethics of the Tuskegee Syphilis study based on the questions supplied. The solution is 272 words and provides one reference.

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The first recommendation was information should be supplied to all participants about the actual research and the fact it was a study. The participants also should have been allowed to participate with full knowledge or limited knowledge, their choice. The study could have occurred with a control group receiving the drug when it was discovered, and only limited time for those not taking the drug.

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