Which unethical study in previous history involved withholding a treatment from subjects to study the effects of a disease progression on subjects?
A) The Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital Study
B) The Nazi Medical Experiments
C) The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
D) The Willowbrook Study

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In the Tuskegee Syphilis Study,penicillin was deliberately withheld from the research subjects and their families,to study the effects of the natural progression of syphilis.In the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital Study,subjects were injected with a suspension containing live cancer cells and did not know they were taking part in a study or that the injections contained these live cancer cells.In the Nazi Medical Experiments,an array of atrocious unethical medical experiments was conducted on prisoners of war.In the Willowbrook Study,mentally retarded children were infected with the hepatitis virus and new patients were not admitted to this institution unless their parents consented for their children to participate in this study.

Which Unethical Study in Previous History Involved Withholding a Treatment