SCS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nazi Human Experimentation, Participant Observation, Academic Freedom
17 Oct 2016
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Ethical issues in research risk assessment is a key feature of all research. One person/group does not bear an undue burden of the research risk. Constant balance between potential gain and potential risk of harm. Always weighed in favour of research subjects. Ex: stress, pain, etc. during the research. Nazi medical experiments, milgram obedience to authority experimental studies, stanford prison experiment institutional review boards in the us research ethics boards in canada. Tri-council policy statement: ethical conduct for research involving. Policy is due to inadvertent harm caused to participants. The researcher may not recognize all the risks. Must be obtained before people are approached to be participants. Funding relationships, work with the applicant are all reviewed. Stated hypothesis and specific plan for testing. Data gathered from one person at a time. Flexibility for emerging themes means indeterminate methods. May capture data on people that would not want their activities observed.
