PHIL 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: United States Public Health Service, Advantageous, Academic Freedom
16 Dec 2017
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Instead, it involves healthy individuals and studies their general susceptibility or response to various factors question of whether we can justify using research findings collected under controversial, or even morally objectionable, circumstances. Because failure to recognize individual conflicts of interest could result in harm being done to the subject, the government is willing to accept the refusal of a noncompetent individual rather than risk going against his wishes. Slides the dark history of research with human subjects and the contemporary situation. Medical experimentation: trial-by-error , scientifically valid research (verifiable and double-blind) Nuremburg code // declaration of helsinki: guidelines for ethically acceptable research, canada"s tri-council statement. What about oppressed groups, children, or persons with diminished capacity? (alzheimers, dementia, etc) Random, placebo or control groups, and double blind A random set of participants is essential to ensure that local conditions do not skew the results.
