PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Syphilis, Sulfur Mustard, Malaria
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Ethics: a set of standards that govern the conduct of a person or members of a profession. Researchers are obligated to: treat human participants with respect and in a way that maintains their rights/dignity, care of the welfare of animal subjects, be honest in the treatment of the data. Little albert: john watson conditioned baby albert to be afraid of white rats. Nuremburg trials (nazi doctors: medical experiments at concentration camps. Apa code of ethics (1953: 5 principles: Tuskegee bad blood : in order to study advanced syphilis: 400 600 poor black men from the rural south were diagnosed and left untreated gave them food, money, and benefits if they would get blood tested. By the late 1940s, participants were dying at two times the rate of the control group. Public health department stopped the treatment of these men even though penicillin had been developed. 128 died, 40 wives infected, 19 children born with syphilis.
