HLTC22H3 Lecture 7: Lecture 7.doc
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Ethical considerations in research on health and aging. A. (1994). issues with qualitative or ethnographic research among elderly for all researchers. Principles of ethical research (respect, beneficence, justice) problem : strong reciprocal bonds b/w researcher and informants: missing, biomedical background, advocacy and intervention. Some theoriest feel advocacy is important as it is a responsibility. Intervention has big responsibilities of advocacy as well as for other informants in the study. Case- study (mrs. smith, 85 year old) alzheimers, arthiritis, hypothyroidism. Beecher listed controversial issues such as willowbrook incident in which mentally retarded children were injected with hepatitis. 1966 first regulation to protect human subjects (southam injected cancer cells in elderly people. 1974 national research act established president"s commission for protection of human subjects of biomedical and behaviour research. In the late 1960s anthropologists were forced to deal with negative impact of ethnographic work in areas such as southeast asia, latin america. In 1971 american anthropological association first adopted professional responsibilities.
