SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Syphilis
3 Jun 2016
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Major catalysts for the codification of a set of ethical standards: wwii nuremberg trials, tuskegee syphilis study. Three main areas of ethical concern: data collection and analysis. > assessment of the use of the findings (understand how they"ll be used, promotion of the beneficial application of findings, speak out against destructive applications: treatment of human participants i. > 4 components: competence, voluntarism, full information, comprehension: harm. > 4 dimensions: personal humiliation, psychological, social, physical: deception = misleading subjects about various aspects of the study, privacy = extent their attitudes, beliefs, behaviours and opinions are revealed. > 3 components: setting, sensitivity of the information, dissemination of the info. Anonymity = a condition where researchers are unable to identify data with particular research participants. Confidentiality = assumption that all data on research participants is given to the researcher in strict confidence,need"s the participant"s permission, data are reported in a summarized/aggregate form so that people are not individually revealed to the public.
