COMM 88 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Institutional Review Board, Operation Whitecoat, Milgram Experiment
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Nazi experiments on prisoners, including young children (in dachau & auschwitz, 1939-1945) Japanese experiments on prisoners of war and civilians (in unit731, 1935-1945) Us government experiments on african-american men (tuskegee syphilis experiment, 1932-1972) Cia experiments in giving unsuspecting subjects lsd (mkultra program, 1953-1973) Us military conscripts voluntarily exposed to weaponized bacteria and offered antibiotic treatment afterwards. Table with 6 buttons attached to a fake voltage meter going from 0 to 450 v. Experimenter (e) orders the subject (t) to deliver a shock to (l), who is actually a partner actor. Subjects t are pressured into shocking l and many of them do so despite their moral standards . The declaration of helsinki: a set of ethical principles regarding human experimentation. Widely regarded as the cornerstone document on human research ethics. Title 45: put out by us that states protection of human subjects. Researchers must submit research proposal for approval from the university"s irb.
