SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: United States Public Health Service, Syphilis, Nuremberg
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The ethical dimensions of rik scarce"s (1993) case: confidentiality, attorney general asked him to give them his research and he said no, got thrown in jail for not cooperating. Example of researcher who gets pride in the confidentiality of their research. Informed consent: obtain this, voluntary participation; potential risks outlined. Tuskegee syphilis study: us public health service 1932, determine the natural course of syphilis, 399 poor black men. History: medical experiments conducted on concentration camp prisoners, made to stand outside in the winter naked or submerged in cold water https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=fzqubh0ch24. Harm in social research: stanley milgram"s obedience" study. Kathleen blee: white, american professor who is interested in kkk, white supremacy. Interested in the ways which women used practices to fit into these roles in to the us. I want to know how you do these practices, so i can undermine them: she decided to be unsympathetic to these rules or else it wont work, laud humphrey"s tearoom" study.