Lecture 3: chapter 4 Flashcards
what are the elements of ethical research?
1) protecting human rights
2) understanding informed consent
3) understanding institutional review of research
4) balancing benefits/ risks in a study
what are the unethical researches mentioned?
1) Nazi Medical Experiments
2) Tuskegee Syphilis Study
3) Willowbrook Study
4) Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital Study
what are two documents associated with the Nazi Medical experiments?
Nuremberg Code and Declaration of Helsinki
what are the critiquing guidelines for problems and purposes?
what are things to consider when critiquing guidelines of research (problems and purposes)?
- is it clear and concise?
- limited in scope?
- is it narrowed to the focus of the study?
- does it identify variables, population, and setting?
- does this allow for generation of knowledge?
- feasible?
- ethical?
what were the ethical violations of the Nazi Medical Experiments?
subjects were given poison, surgery w/o anasthesia, involuntary participation, freezing temperatures, and permanent damage
who were the subjects of the Nazi Medical Experiments?
Jewish prisoners of war
what was the goal of Tuskegee Syphilis Study (TSS)?
to examine the natural course of syphilis in adult black men w/o treatment
what made TSS unethical?
withheld information of effective treatment (Penicillin)
what roles did the CDC play in TSS?
they reviewed it and determined it should be continued for the next 40 years
what are the long-term implications of unethical research in the past?
severe mistrust by subjects of the researchers
what was the purpose of the Willowbrook Study (WS)?
examined the course of hepatitis in the body using mentally impaired children
on what grounds was WS defended at that time?
cleaner environment, better supervision, higher nurse-patient ratio
what was the purpose of the Jewish Chronic Disease Study (JCDS)?
determine the patient’s rejection response to live cancer cells
who were the subject of JCDS?
patients with dementia
what made JCDS unethical?
researchers did not inform subjects they were taking part in a study (no informed consent)
doctors who were caring for the patients with dementia did not know about the study
true
what is the focus of the Declaration of Helsinki?
clarifies the difference between therapeutic and nontherapeutic research