CRIM 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nuremberg Code, Syphilis, Organ Transplantation
17 Mar 2016
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Why discuss ethics: not an aterthought, prior harmful, egregious conduct, guidelines & review board. Examples of research causing harm: nazi experiments. Nuremberg code (1947) first recognized code if research ethics: tuskegee syphilis study. To determine natural history of untreated syphilis in men. Man with syphilis were tested but not told they had syphilis but were told they were being tested for bad blood instead. They were not treated for syphilis even though the researchers knew because they wanted to see what happened when syphilis were not treated. Eventually men died, they had bigger problems, they gave it to their wives and etc: jewish chronic disease hospital study (1963) Paients were not told they were being injected with cancer cells because they said that this might help see if the diseases they already had would reject the cancer cells: willowbrook study (1963) Deining ethics: oed: rules of conduct recognized in certain associaions or departments of human life .
