PSYC 201W Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: United States Public Health Service, Institutional Review Board, Nuremberg Code

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 201W
• Professor: A.George Alder

Document Summary

Major problem w/ research, is its tentative (dealing with unknowns) Set of ethical principles essential for medical experiments to be permissible (also applies to behavioural research) Voluntary consent w/ freedom to withdraw at any time. Info prior to giving consent about research purpose and potential risks. By 1940s, penicillin was considered a cure, and was available, but they conducted study regardless. The belmont report 1979 (ethics code, in response to numerous wrong studies) Applicable to human research conducted in the us. **respect, beneficence (maximizing benefits, less harm) and justice. Tri-council policy for ethical conduct for research involving humans. Dont carry out any studies unless the probable. Incl members from each faculty, grad students, undergrad students and 4 community members. Three categories of applications: minimal-risk, greater-than-minimal-risk, and course. Types of harm (considered in judging degree of risk to participants) Social harm and loss of privacy (ex sensitive information disclosed) Economic or legal harm (ex accident after research-induced sleep deprivation)