SSCI 2900U Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Andrew Wakefield, Immunology, Psychological Abuse

• School: UOIT
• Department: Social-Science
• Course: SSCI 2900U
• Professor: Vivian Stamatopoulos

Document Summary

Ethics: the concerns, dilemmas and conflicts that arise over the proper way to conduct research, balance the pursuit of knowledge with the rights of research participants, appreciate relations of power and imbalance between researcher and researched. Reserach fraud (making up results or falsifying evidence) Plagiarism: harm and voluntarism (when putting your participants at harm, privacy, ethics and the sponsors of social research, unethical but legal. Origins of research ethics: famous violations (cid:858)medi(cid:272)al e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts(cid:859) i(cid:374) nazi ger(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) Twin studies, experiments with drugs: tuskegee syphilis study (aka bad blood) African american men were approached by medical doctors who said that they have syphilis (a sickeness) Do(cid:272)tors did tests a(cid:374)d studies o(cid:374) the (cid:373)e(cid:374) i(cid:374) retur(cid:374) for (cid:862)free health (cid:272)are(cid:863) Cure came out but doctors never gave it the people because they wanted to know what it would look like up until they died. Special populations: those who may be more susceptible to possible abuse by researchers, groups of people this designation includes.