SCS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nazi Human Experimentation, Stanford Prison Experiment, Institutional Review Board
31 Jan 2017
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One person/group does not bear an undue burden of the research risk. Risk assessment is a key feature of all research. Constant balance between potential gain and risk of harm. Always weighted in favour of research subjects. Violations of research ethics: nazi medical experiments, milgram obedience to authority experimental studies, stanford prison experiment. Research ethics boards in canada: review of projects involving human subjects, debates about their role. Tri-council policy statement: ethical conduct for research involving humans (tcps2: administered through research ethics board, approval process, 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. Rebs are internal to the affiliated institution. 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.
