Atrocities examples Flashcards
nazi human experimentation
in concentration camps in the early to mid 1940s- targeted children, Romani, Sinti, ethnic poles and soviet POWs, disabled germans and jews
nazi physicians
forced prisoners to participate- they did not willingly volunteer and no consent was given for the procedures
the nazi experience typically ended in
death, trauma, disfigurement or permanent disfigurement disability –> medical torture
in Auschwitz who directed human experimentation
Eduard Wirths
many nazi experiments were aimed at
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
Aribert Heim
was a nazi experimenter who aimed to cure homosexuality
the Tuskegee trial started in
1932
the tuskegee trial was funded by
the public health service
tuskegee trial was in collaboration with
Tuskegee university, a historically black college in Alabama
who was recruited for the tuskegee trial
600 impoverished, African american sharecroppers from Alabama
how many of the 600 men had previously contracted syphilis
399
201 /600men
did not have syphillis
what attracted men to the Tuskegee trial
-free medical care, meals, free burial insurance
how long were the men told the trial was to last
6 months
how long did the tuskegee trial actually lat
40 years
when the funding for treatment was lost
the study was continued without informing the men they would never be treated
why was tuskegee so evil
- picked on a vulnerable group
- ill-informed
- couldn’t give full consent due to lie’s by the investigators
none of the men were ever told they had the disease, nor were they
ever treated with penicillin even after the antibiotic was proven successful in the treatment of syphillis
what were the men told they were being treated for
‘bad blood’
bad blood described
a collection of illnesses including syphilis, anaemia and fatigue
who was the main whistleblower of the tuskegee trial and when were major changes implemented in the US law
Peter Buxton 1972
what key changes were made in US law after the Tuskegee trial
1) informed consent
2) communication of diagnosis
3) accurate reporting
- -> mainly to protect participants in clinical trials
Outcomes of the Tuskegee trial
numerous men who dies of syphilis, 40 wives who contracted the disease and 19 children born with congenital syphillis
the Tuskegee trial led to
the 1979 Belmont report
Nazi human experimentation led to
nuremberg code 1947
stanford prison experiment
1971
what happened in the stanford prison experiment
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.
who allowed the abuse to continue int he stanford prison experiment
Zimbardo- superintendent
how long did it take for the exercise to be abandoned
6 days following the objections of Christina Maslach
