APSY2216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Belmont Report, Nuremberg Code, Syphilis
7 May 2017
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Goals of ethics homework assignment that was due today: familiarize you with ethical issues in research and best practices; prepare you to conduct future research. Next week: deep dive into specific research designs - experimental design and consent forms. What counts as ethical? (apa, bc irb) Is carried out with respect and concern for dignity and welfare of the people who participate. Conforms to federal/state regulations concerning such research. Conforms to standards of conduct put forward by organizations governing conduct of research. Most regulations that we currently have in place were a result of unethical research. Nazis exposed prisoners to malaria, mustard gas, sterilizations, etc. Tuskegee syphilis experiments - told poor african american men that they would receive free refused to tell them(cid:524) treatment for syphilis was discovered during this time, but the researchers. Respect for participants - individuals should be treated as autonomous agents.
