Exhibit 1068 ยท Federal advisory panel report
Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel
In retrospect, the Public Health Service Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Male Negro in Macon County, Alabama, was ethically unjustified in 1932.
Panel appointed in 1972 under Assistant Secretary Merlin DuVal's office and chaired by Broadus Butler. The majority judges the Public Health Service study ethically unjustified in 1932 and finds no evidence of consent. Separate statement by Jay Katz quotes the transcript of a February 1969 CDC review committee: one of five members repeatedly stressed an obligation to treat, and the committee 'seemed to be reassured' that good liaison with the local medical society meant 'no need to answer criticism.' Katz also notes an October 1972 Southern Medical Journal editorial that exonerated the study and chastised the 'irresponsible press.'
- Source
- U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service (Ad Hoc Advisory Panel)
- Date
- 28 April 1973
- Quoted from
- Report on Charge I, 'Panel Judgments on Charge 1-A', item 1, printed p. 7 (PDF p. 10)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/cphl/history/reports/tuskegee/complete%20report.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Second quote-checked passage (Katz, 'Reservations about the Panel Report on Charge I', item 6, printed p. 14, PDF p. 17): 'Instead the Committee, which was in part concerned with the possibility of adverse criticism, seemed to be reassured by the observation that "if we established good liaison with the local medical society, there would be no need to answer criticism."' The 1969 committee's own summary (majority report, PDF p. 14): 'More contact should be established between PHS and Macon County Health Department and Medical Society so they would cooperate in the continuance of the study.' Third (Katz, printed p. 15, PDF p. 18): 'One lengthy editorial appeared in the October 1972 issue of the Southern Medical Journal which exonerated the study and chastised the "irresponsible press" for bringing it to public attention.' The report is a scan; read from page images.