Local Context
There may not be many examples of medical exploitation on people in Chicago as there are around the world. But, just because there are not many examples like that does not mean that we should not care. One of the most recent and close to home examples that I came across happened on August 28, 1999 at University of Illinois at Chicago. UIC was suspended from doing most human research. What had happened was that UIC was conducting some research with human test subjects. The “researchers had failed to get sufficient informed consent from some research subjects” along with “Regulators also found deficiencies in a UIC office responsible for coordinating safety reviews, after receiving allegations that a former vice chancellor for research had instructed researchers not to report violations of federal regulations.” (Chicago Tribune, 1999). That means that the test subjects had not given full permission to be a part of the experiment because they were not fully aware or had enough knowledge of the risks and possible consequences. Because of the test subjects not being fully informed, the federal panel suspended the research and in order for the research to carry on everything would have to get re-evaluated and some fees had to be paid. There is also another close to home and recent example that happened from 1944-1946 in which a University of Chicago Medical School professor named Dr. Alf Alving conducts malaria experiments on more than 400 Illinois prisoners.
To think globally and act locally means that one is aware of the issues going on around the world but because one cannot fix all the issues that go on around the world, they at least focus on the same/similar issues that go on around the world but happen in one’s city, and tries to do something about them. Unfortunately, there are not organizations that deal specifically with medical exploitation but there are some that deal with sexual exploitation and abuse that a lot of the times tie in and relate with medical exploitation. The national context is very similar, if not the same, to the local context of my issue because in the end of the day it is the same thing that is going on. There is still people that are being recruited and are not being told everything or are simply used as test subjects in unethical experiments just for the furthering of medical knowledge.
To think globally and act locally means that one is aware of the issues going on around the world but because one cannot fix all the issues that go on around the world, they at least focus on the same/similar issues that go on around the world but happen in one’s city, and tries to do something about them. Unfortunately, there are not organizations that deal specifically with medical exploitation but there are some that deal with sexual exploitation and abuse that a lot of the times tie in and relate with medical exploitation. The national context is very similar, if not the same, to the local context of my issue because in the end of the day it is the same thing that is going on. There is still people that are being recruited and are not being told everything or are simply used as test subjects in unethical experiments just for the furthering of medical knowledge.