In six pages this paper discusses why there is a lack of minorities represented in medical research studies. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography.
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thought to be a part of the American landscape and the so-called melting pot that now describes at least the American cities, there is a great divide in society. Ethnic
and racial minorities are suspicious of police, of the medical community and of the mainstream in general. Reasons for this go deep. One obvious reason is due to the way
in which minorities had been treated over the years. The slavery of African Americans and the Japanese internment are just two examples. It is perhaps because of this that it
is difficult to get minorities to participate in mainstream medical research. Key & Lindgren (1999) explain that it has been difficult to recruit sufficient numbers of African-Americans as well
as other minorities for clinical trials. African-Americans, in particular, are apprehensive regarding any medical research , something that is likely attributable to the Tuskegee, Alabama syphilis experiment (1999). An
example of this unethical study is something reported in Howard Joness (1993) Bad Blood, a book about the experiment. It is a rather well known situation where black men were
not told that they had Syphilis and were allowed to get sick and die, all for the sake of the medical research. With this particular research design, the subjects were
not told of their conditions, or obviously, they would back out of the trial. Of course, while there are times when subjects are not supposed to know details of a
study--and that is necessary in order to preserve the integrity of the experiment--it is problematic if the subjects health or well being are jeopardized in any way. In this particular
experiment as outlined in the book, between 28 and 100 men died as a result of the disease and the experiment did not even involve treatment (1993). Although it