Research Ethics

Question 1

Clinical research

Answer 1

Illness focused
Patient participants
Treatment interventions
Beneficence obligations

Question 2

Non-clinical research

Answer 2

Broad understanding for greater good
Non-ill participants
Low immediate benefit to person and risk of harm

Question 3

Clinical equipose

Answer 3

What is the level of uncertainty that can not be established any other way

Question 4

Tuskgee Syphillis study

Answer 4

Targeted black people who were not told they had syphillis

Poorly conducted experiment with invasive and painful procedures

Question 5

Stanford prison experiment

Answer 5

Some students were prisoners and some were guards

Scheduled 2 weeks, but had to stop after 1 due to all the violence

Question 6

Little albert

Answer 6

Conditioned him to fear fuzzy white things with loud noises as the stimulus

Question 7

Nuremburg code

Answer 7

Globally agreed upon set of principles to conduct research

Question 8

10 points of nuremburg code

Answer 8

Voluntary informed consent
For the greater good
Based on prior knowledge
Avoid unnecessary suffering and injury
No study where disability or death will occur
Risk should not exceed humanitarian value of the exper.
Proper preparation, facilities and protection
Conducted only by scientifically qualified individuals
Participant should be able to end study at any time
Scientist must be prepared to end study if risk to participant

Question 9

Ends justify the means

Answer 9

As long as the information is beneficial it does not matter how it was obtained

Question 10

Whistle blower laws

Answer 10

Protect those who make their concerns public