POLSCI 2NN3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Syphilis, Stanford Prison Experiment, Informed Consent
27 Nov 2017
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You cannot conduct original social scienti c research without considering the ethical dilemmas that are inherent to any study of human society. This raises questions about who is making these decisions and on what basis. Tuskegee syphilis study: participants aren"t told they have syphillis, participants are overwhelmingly black, are brought to participate in study however - are never cured. Rather the researchers wanted to see how far or bad syphillis can get. Milgram"s study of obedience: yale university, experimental behavioural study. Paid volunteers, told them he was going to study the effects of punishment on learning. People are randomly assigned to be learner and teacher. Right answer is ne, wrong answer administers a shock. (*they are in diff. rooms, cannot see each other) - however the learner" is not actually getting a shock. The real experiment is to see how far obedience will go: even when they know morally - the act is wrong.
