Kinesiology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Digital Millennium Copyright Act, University Of Western Ontario, Laud Humphreys
20 Mar 2017
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What is ethics: principles for guiding decision making and reconciling conflicting values. Good and right can be seen as wrong and bad. An action is either ethical or unethical. Ethical standards are not universal but are relative to one"s particular culture and time. What is ethical now may not be ethical in the future: utilitarianism. Decisions about ethics should depend on the balance of consequences and benefits for both research participants and the greater society. Declaration of helsinki: cornerstone of human research ethics, focus on medical research ethics, addresses: Tuskegee syphilis study: tuskegee syphilis study: 1932 1974. Withholding of penicillin from black males so the government could nd out the long term e ects of syphilis: other us government examples: Us military trials involving nerve gas and nuclear radiation. Cia studies on mind control experiments involving lsd, esp, hypnosis, and surgery: moral deception: do not conduct secret testing on unsuspecting subjects.
