Torturous Experiments
The experiment in which a doctoral student from Yale had male participants (teachers) shock other men (learners) in increasing doses to see how far they would go
What is the Milgram Experiment?
The 3 main Applications categories listed in the Belmont Report
What are Informed Consent, Assessment of Risks and Benefits, and Selection of Subjects?
The year the Belmont Report was published
What is 1979?
One in which participants face no physical or psychological stressors
What is a no risk study proposal?
What is Henrietta Lacks?
The medical oath that helped to inform the principal of Beneficence in the Belmont Report
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
This study involved 399 impoverished African American men
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
5-7 weeks or 3 weeks for expedited
What is the length of time you need to provide for a full review or expedited review of a research proposal to the IRB?
The CIA funded LSD experiment that took place at over 80 institutions in the US, and in which Ken Kesey took part and helped inform his book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
What is project MKUltra?
What is research?
The trials that took place in the 1940's which led to the code of the same name
What are the Nuremberg Trials?
To weigh the actual or potential risks posed to participants against the benefits
What is the purpose of the IRB?
The 1956-1971 experiment in which mentally disabled children were infected with hepatitis in order to create a vaccine
What is Willowbrook (State School)?
In Belmont's Basic Ethical Principles Respect for Persons is divided into these 2 basic understandings
What are acknowledgement of autonomy and requirement to protect those with diminished autonomy?
The declaration of this city laid out the terms for ethical medical research
What is Helsinki?
Research in this category involves risks or stressors that are not greater, in and of themselves, than those ordinarily encountered in daily life or during the performance of routine physical or psychological examination
What is an exempt review?
The 1939 experiment in which 22 orphans were divided into 2 groups by researchers at University of Iowa. Each group had a mixture of children with speech problems and those without. One group was ridiculed for their speech problems, the other given encouragement and positive feedback
What is The Monster Study?
The Belmont Report says this may appear even if subjects are selected and treated fairly
What is injustice?
In the 1960's this doctor brought to light the unethical Alabama study that most informed the need for The Belmont Report
Who is Peter Buxton?
A minor participant’s affirmative agreement to participate in research
What is informed assent?