FRHD 3070 Study Guide - Syphilis, Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Code

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3070
• Professor: professor

Document Summary

Ethics in research: morals right vs. wrong. Historical background: scientists in nazi germany (ww2) o. Immerse the prisoners in freezing water to see how long they could stand freezing water before they died to see how long pilots would last if their plane crashed into cold water. Force them to drink salt water to see how long they could last without fresh water. Limb transplants, bone transplants done on healthy individuals. Give them poisons to see the effects, untested drugs to find out the effects of them. All of this was done in the name of science" o o. Allied judges sentenced the medical doctors that had performed these tests some of them sentenced to death. Nuremberg code of justice scientists need to get signed consent before conducting any sort of experiment. Wanted to find out the natural course of syphilis. Had about 600 individuals experimental (~400 individuals, with syphilis) and control (didn"t have syphilis, ~200 individuals)