HLTC22H3 Lecture Notes - Dementia, Comorbidity
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Lec 6 - 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: 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. All institutions must have institutional review board: professional codes of ethics. 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. Codes emphasize researcher s ethical obligations and raises awareness but does not solve problems.