John Charles Cutler

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John Charles Cutler (born June 29, 1915 , Cleveland ; † February 9, 2003 , Pittsburgh ) was an American medic. He conducted human syphilis trials in Guatemala and the Tuskegee syphilis trial in Alabama.

Life

Cutler was born to Grace Amanda Allen and Glenn Allen Cutler. He graduated from Western Reserve University Medical School in 1941 and joined the Public Health Service in 1942. In 1943 he worked as a medical officer in the US Public Health Venereal Disease Research Laboratory on Staten Island .

In the 1940s he carried out the syphilis human experiments in Guatemala, in which 1308 to 2082 Guatemalans were deliberately infected. The Guatemalans also included orphans, the youngest of whom were nine years old.

In 1954 Cutler was responsible for experiments carried out on Sing Sing prisoners . The effect of penicillin on syphilis was tested on them.

Cutler became Assistant Surgeon General of the United States in 1958 . In the 1960s, he participated in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study , which left several hundred African-Americans infected with syphilis without medical treatment. Cutler said in 1993 in the television documentary "The Deadly Deception":

"It was important that they were supposedly untreated, and it would be undesirable to go ahead and use large amounts of penicillin to treat the disease, because you'd interfere with the study."

“It was important that they did not receive (medically) treatment. It was not wanted that they would have been treated with large amounts of penicillin because that would have affected the studies. "

- John Charles Cutler

In 1967 Cutler became Professor of International Health at the University of Pittsburgh , where he was Dean from 1968 to 1969 .

He died in 2003 at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh . After his death there was a series of lectures at the University of Pittsburgh , which was named in his honor after Cutler. In 2008 this series was canceled after his responsibility for the human experiments in Guatemala was exposed.

In January 2019, a judge ruled on the admission of legal proceedings against the pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb , Johns Hopkins University and the Rockefeller Foundation for the compensation of 774 victims and victim relatives, who filed a lawsuit in 2015 for compensation from submitted a total of $ 1 billion.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Victims of American syphilis experiments fail in court spiegel.de, June 14, 2012, accessed January 5, 2019.
  2. ↑ Syphilis experiments cost more than 80 lives. In: Spiegel online , August 30, 2011 ( online )
  3. ↑ Victims of American syphilis experiments fail in court spiegel.de, June 14, 2012, accessed January 5, 2019.
  4. ^ Rory Carroll: Guatemala victims of US syphilis study still haunted by the “devil's experiment” , The Guardian , June 8, 2011.
  5. ↑ Article in the Guardian
  6. ↑ Article in the Boston Globe
  7. ^ Syphilis Preventive Seen by Scientists . In: Associated Press , December 8, 1954. Retrieved October 3, 2010. 
  8. ^ Syphilis Preventive Seen by Scientists . in Associated Press
  9. ^ A b John Charles Cutler. Pioneer in preventing sexual diseases . In: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , February 12, 2003. Retrieved October 2, 2010. 
  10. ↑ Torsten Ove: Presidential panel excoriates former Pitt dean , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 29, 2011
  11. ↑ Human experiments: pharmaceutical giant must answer orf.at, January 5, 2019, accessed January 5, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Cutler, John Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1915
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2003