ANTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Medical Anthropology, Syphilis, Medical Ethics
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Continuation of miss evers" boys and ethics of research. A study conducted to see if the position people are assigned, if that would change how they act. They took college students and assigned them roles in a prison (prisoners or guards) and dehumanizing (taking their identity away from them). Got very out of control and abusive very fast and the study was shut down after. = forbidden experiment, the means does not justify the ends. Proposed study: study 400 men with syphilis, 200 as a control group study them without any form of treatment, even though treatment is available. The subjects will be told that they are being treated for syphilis, but they are not. They are kept healthy in every other respect in order to see the changes to health by only syphilis. 412 men with syphilis taken and they are told that nothing has changed from the beginning.
