CS235 Chapter 2: Ethics and Research
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Ancient greek/roman scholars concerned about how values translated into actions. Contemporary scholars consider equal opportunities for social action. Access to communication becomes a moral issue in representative democracy since you cannot fully participate in society if you cannot access info in a timely manner. Ethical communication includes range of socially and culturally constructed ways of speaking, writing and performing communication. Wwi/wwii prompted increasing awareness among researchers that code of concentration camp prisoners. Verdict included statement about (cid:494)permissible medical experiments(cid:495) the nuremberg code. Nuremberg evidence inspired un(cid:495)s universal declaration of. Tuskegee, alabama 1930s 1972, 600+ black men participated in syphilis. 1974 us federal gov(cid:495)t established national commission to recommend guidelines for protection of human participants in biomedical/behavioural research: not told true purpose of research, not told about/treated with penicillin even when researchers knew it. Human rights study was an effective treatment: established 3 principles for ethical research: Beneficence, respect for autonomy of persons, and justice.
