Atrocities examples

Question 1

nazi human experimentation

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in concentration camps in the early to mid 1940s- targeted children, Romani, Sinti, ethnic poles and soviet POWs, disabled germans and jews

Question 2

nazi physicians

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forced prisoners to participate- they did not willingly volunteer and no consent was given for the procedures

Question 3

the nazi experience typically ended in

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death, trauma, disfigurement or permanent disfigurement disability –> medical torture

Question 4

in Auschwitz who directed human experimentation

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Eduard Wirths

Question 5

many nazi experiments were aimed at

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helping german military personnel in combat situations, development of new weapons, aid in recovery of military personnel who had been injured and to advance the nazi racial ideology

Question 6

Aribert Heim

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was a nazi experimenter who aimed to cure homosexuality

Question 7

the Tuskegee trial started in

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1932

Question 8

the tuskegee trial was funded by

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the public health service

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tuskegee trial was in collaboration with

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Tuskegee university, a historically black college in Alabama

Question 10

who was recruited for the tuskegee trial

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600 impoverished, African american sharecroppers from Alabama

Question 11

how many of the 600 men had previously contracted syphilis

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399

Question 12

201 /600men

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did not have syphillis

Question 13

what attracted men to the Tuskegee trial

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-free medical care, meals, free burial insurance

Question 14

how long were the men told the trial was to last

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6 months

Question 15

how long did the tuskegee trial actually lat

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40 years

Question 16

when the funding for treatment was lost

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the study was continued without informing the men they would never be treated

Question 17

why was tuskegee so evil

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• picked on a vulnerable group
• ill-informed
• couldn’t give full consent due to lie’s by the investigators

Question 18

none of the men were ever told they had the disease, nor were they

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ever treated with penicillin even after the antibiotic was proven successful in the treatment of syphillis

Question 19

what were the men told they were being treated for

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‘bad blood’

Question 20

bad blood described

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a collection of illnesses including syphilis, anaemia and fatigue

Question 21

who was the main whistleblower of the tuskegee trial and when were major changes implemented in the US law

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Peter Buxton 1972

Question 22

what key changes were made in US law after the Tuskegee trial

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1) informed consent
2) communication of diagnosis
3) accurate reporting
- -> mainly to protect participants in clinical trials

Question 23

Outcomes of the Tuskegee trial

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numerous men who dies of syphilis, 40 wives who contracted the disease and 19 children born with congenital syphillis

Question 24

the Tuskegee trial led to

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the 1979 Belmont report

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Nazi human experimentation led to

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nuremberg code 1947

Question 26

stanford prison experiment

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1971

Question 27

what happened in the stanford prison experiment

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guards and prisoners had been randomly chosen from the volunteering college student. Some participants developed their roles as the officers and enforced authoritarian measures and ultimately subjected some prisoners to psychological torture. Many of the prisoners passively accepted psychological ause and by the officers request, actively harassed other prisoners who tried to stop it.

Question 28

who allowed the abuse to continue int he stanford prison experiment

Answer 28

Zimbardo- superintendent

Question 29

how long did it take for the exercise to be abandoned

Answer 29

6 days following the objections of Christina Maslach