John Charles Cutler
John Charles Cutler | |
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Born | Western Reserve University, M.D. (1941) | June 29, 1915
Employer | United States Public Health Service |
Known for | unethical medical experiments regarding syphilitic patients |
Spouse | Eliese S. Cutler |
Parent(s) | Grace Amanda Allen Glenn Allen Cutler |
John Charles Cutler (June 29, 1915 – February 8, 2003) was a senior surgeon, and the acting chief of the
Early life and education
Cutler was born on June 29, 1915, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Grace Amanda Allen and Glenn Allen Cutler.[3]
He graduated from
Bioethics violations
Cutler oversaw the Terre Haute prison experiments in 1943 and 1944, in which inmates at a federal penitentiary agreed to be injected with strains of gonorrhea in return for $100, a certificate of merit, and a letter of commendation to the parole board. The experiments were discontinued when Cutler's supervisor determined that the method of inducing gonorrhea in humans was unreliable and could not provide meaningful tests of prophylactic agents.
Cutler then resumed these experiments, conducted by the United States Public Health Service with funding from the United States
Approximately half of those infected as part of the study were treated for the diseases they contracted. A total of 83 subjects died, though the exact relationship to the experiment remains undocumented. This study not only violated the
In 1954, Cutler was in charge of experiments at
Cutler became assistant surgeon general in 1958.
In the 1960s until November 1972, Cutler was involved in the ongoing
In “The Deadly Deception”, the 1993
In 1967 Cutler was appointed Professor of International Health at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also served as chairman of the Department of Health Administration and acting dean of the Graduate School of Public Health in 1968–1969.[1] He died on February 8, 2003, at Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh.[1] The university started a lecture series in his name after his death, but discontinued it in 2008 when his role in the Tuskegee experiment came to the attention of a new dean.[10]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "John Charles Cutler. Pioneer in preventing sexual diseases". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. February 12, 2003. Retrieved October 2, 2010.
- ^ a b "Sing Sing Tests Held Raising Hopes for Finding Preventive". The New York Times. December 9, 1954. Retrieved October 2, 2010.
- ^ John Charles Cutler (1915–2003) in the Hubbard Family Tree, Ancestry.com
- ^ a b McGreal, Chris (October 1, 2010). "US says sorry for 'outrageous and abhorrent' Guatemalan syphilis tests". The Guardian. Retrieved October 2, 2010.
- ^ Boston Globe. October 1, 2010. Retrieved October 2, 2010.
- ^ a b Rory Carroll: Guatemala victims of US syphilis study still haunted by the “devil’s experiment”, The Guardian, 8 June 2011.
- ^ "Syphilis Preventive Seen by Scientists". Associated Press. December 8, 1954. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
- Nova. PBS.
- ^ Amy Goodman, host; Susan Reverby, guest (October 5, 2010). "The Dark History of Medical Experimentation from the Nazis to Tuskegee to Puerto Rico". Democracy Now!. Pacifica Radio.
- ^ Torsten Ove: "Presidential panel excoriates former Pitt dean", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 29 August 2011