SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Assisted Suicide, Coroner, Homo Erectus

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1
• Professor: brown

Document Summary

Russell ogden was a graduate student at simon fraser university in the school of. He applied to sfu"s ethics committee for approval to conduct his master of arts thesis on assisted suicide among persons living with hiv/aids. In his application, he indicated that he would offer his participants absolute confidentiality (ogden, 1997). Despite having approved ogden"s research, sfu refused to legally support ogden in his fight to uphold his commitment to his research participants of absolute confidentiality; the research participants did not participate in the legal proceedings. Ogden did, however, find scholarly support from the university of british columbia professor richard ericson and mr. andrew johnson provided expert opinion on the unquestionable significance of protecting confidentiality in research. Ogden was successful in that the court accepted a common-law argument that there would be more societal harm committed by breaching confidentiality than there would be by upholding confidentiality.