PSYCH291 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Clinical Psychology, Institutional Review Board, Nuremberg Code
16 Dec 2016
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Respect for persons respect for people"s rights and dignity recognize that people are autonomous agents protect people"s rights for privacy, consent, confidentiality. Justice strive to be accurate, truthful and honest strive to treat all groups of people fairly sample research participants from the same sample of people that would benefit from the research be aware of biases. German physicians and administrators faced criminal charges for participation in war crimes and crimes against humanity medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners without consent resulted in death or permanent disability. Result: nuremberg code was the first international document advocating voluntary participation and informed consent. Approved as sedative in europe but no fda approval in north america. Prescribed in north america to control sleep and nausea during pregnancy, but later found out that it caused severe deformities in fetus many patients did not know they were taking an experimental drug nor did they give informed consent.
