FRHD 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nuremberg Code, Syphilis, Electric Shock

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3070
• Professor: John Dwyer

Document Summary

Nazis believed that jewish people were inferior. Concentration camps contained people with different political views of. Did horrific scientific medical research on the jewish people. Nuremberg trails against 20 nazi officials who were involved in medical experiments: nuremberg code of research: scientists need to get voluntary consent to get people to participate in their research. Milgram"s obedience experiment: to obey authority, teacher vs. pupil (memory of word lists, electric shock when they got it wrong, wrong because: No voluntary informed consent didn"t even know they were part of the study. Nutrition experiments with native kids in 1940s fuels outrage: government used malnourished, native children for a nutritional experiment, no informed consent, had 1300 aboriginals (mostly children), some kids given vitamins, some weren"t. Some kids had milk rations cut in half, also took away dental treatment. Respecting autonomy: respecting sense of self-determination (being in control of yourself) Beneficence: maximize the benefits of doing your research.