Which of the following studies is linked most directly to the establishment of the National Research Act in 1974 and ultimately to the Belmont Report and federal regulations for human subject protection?

The correct answer is A) The Public Health Service Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the N*gro Male.

The other options of the question were B) Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo). C) The Harvard T3 study. D) Tearoom Trade Study (Humphreys).

The study that is linked most directly to the establishment of the National Research Act in 1974 and ultimately to the Belmont Report and federal regulations for human subject protection was the Public Health Service Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the N*gro Male.

We are talking about the 1932 study conducted by the Tuskegee Institute with the Public Health Service to try to understand and record black men with syphilis in order to try to find a cure for this disease in the black population. 600 African Americans were part of the study but the problem was that these men did not give their consent to be part of the study.

The correct answer is The Public Health Service Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.