The Center for Christian Bioethics will host two free viewings of the Emmy Award-winning film "Miss Evers' Boys" as part of its ongoing ethics in great films series.
"Miss Evers' Boys" portrays the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study, an experiment which originally began as an attempt to procure better health care for poor, rural African-Americans, and depicts--with stark realism--one of the darkest chapters in the annals of the United States' medical research. The experiment flew in the face of two of the most basic tenets of the medical profession: "First do no harm" and give "informed consent." Ultimately, revulsion to the experiment awakened the nation to the need for bioethics.
The entire film will be screened in Centennial Complex room 3113 at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, and Thursday, Feb. 16.