Kinesiology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Code

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2032A/B
• Professor: Emily Knight

Document Summary

What is ethics: principles for guiding decision-making and reconciling conflicting values, based on personal value systems, open to disagreement good and right can be seen as wrong and bad. In many journals, before you publish, you need to state that it conforms to these standards and that it is approved by a research ethics board. Tuskegee syphilis study: 1932 1974: withholdi(cid:374)g of pe(cid:374)i(cid:272)illi(cid:374) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) (cid:271)la(cid:272)k (cid:373)ales so the go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:272)ould (cid:374)d out the lo(cid:374)g te(cid:396)(cid:373) e e(cid:272)ts 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: do not conduct secret testing on unsuspecting subjects. Ex: socially acceptable practice later deemed wrong, accidents, taking shortcuts, missing something (especially with new methods/ technologies: professional pressures. Ex: publish or perish (have to publish a certain amount of papers to keep funding), securing grants, being the first to a discovery.