SOC 4369 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Macon County, Alabama, Willowbrook State School, World Medical Association
Document Summary
Wwii and nazi experiments - nuremberg trials and nuremberg code - unsigned. 1960s, 1970s in us - willowbrook, tuskegee. 1974 code of federal regulations mandates irb review of research. 1990s - tightening of the regs because of continued abuse. 2007 - loosening of some interpretations when applied to social, behavioral, and educational research. The principles and values that help guide actions designed to promote health and injury and disease in the population. From the time immediately after world war ii until the early 1990s, there was a gradually developing consensus about the key ethical principles that should underlie research. Certain events forced the reexamination of ethical standards and the gradual development of a consensus that potential human subjects needed to be protected from being used as guinea pigs in scientific research. Willowbrook state school hepatitis experiments (1963 - 1966) Nazi experiments performed on concentration camp prisoners. Hypothermia, high altitude, twins, genetic, seawater, transplant.
