STC 262 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Belmont Report, Common Rule, Informed Consent
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Means: tools/behaviors employed to reach desired outcome. Ends: the outcomes one desires to achieve. Good means - good end: ethical behavior. Bad means - bad end: unethical behavior. Bad means - good end: machiavellian ethic. When a person employs bad means to get a good end. Machiavellian: niccolo machiavelli, the ends justify the means . Good means - bad end: subjective ethic. Research is not innately ethical or unethical. Belmont report, 3 basic principles when using human subjects: researchers should respect participants as autonomous individuals who can make decisions about their participation in a research project. Common rule: set of guidelines for the rights, welfare, and protections of research participants. Any institution that received federal funding must establish irb. Research participant: a living individual about whom a research obtains data through intervention/interaction or identifiable private information. Whether participants should be paid for participation. Certificate of confidentiality: research can protect privacy of individuals on sensitive.