SOCECOL 194W Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sunburn, Laud Humphreys, Institutional Review Board
30 Jan 2017
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Ethics most well known and infamous unethical studies in medical field. Cruel and deadly nazi experimentation in the name of medical science . In the us, long history of medical experimentation on prisoners. 60s, medical researchers injected arizona prisoner volunteers with hepatitis to test remedies; also subjected them to sunburn to test lotions. Overview/review of ethical issues in social science research. Although not very likely to be so physically devastating in their risks, social science research has had its own ethical challenges historically (milgram studies and stanford prison studies among most famous) These prompted a strong reaction from the irb and now it"s hard to get research through the irb because of the reactions to these kinds of studies and everyone became very conservative. Laud humphreys" tearoom trade as example of ethical problems in field research (also described in your book). At the core of ethical principles is a cardinal rule: do no harm to participants.
