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This company manipulated algorithms in order to test whether reducing the number of positive messages people saw made those people less likely to post positive content themselves.
What is Facebook?
In a limited lab experiment, researchers from George Washington University Medical Center used genetically abnormal embryos.
What is cloned cells?
A concept in research ethics which states that researchers should have the welfare of the research participant as a goal of any clinical trial or other research study.
What is beneficence?
These scientists are credited for the discovery of DNA's structure, for which they eventually would share the Nobel Prize in 1962 despite having stolen key x-ray diffraction data from Rosalind Franklin without her permission.
Who is James Watson and Francis Crick?
Strong prohibitions relating to any area of human activity or custom that is sacred or forbidden based on moral judgment, religious beliefs, or cultural practices.
What is Taboo?
The almost 5 million people who paid to get their DNA analyzed by this company recently found out that their genetic data and related health information might have been sold to a major drug company.
What is 23andMe?
This philosophy, refers to the social movement that believes on the possibility of creating the best human society and race by promoting the reproduction of populations with positive or desirable traits while controlling and prohibiting the reproduction of populations with negative or undesirable traits.
What is eugenics?
In 1973 Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen generated the worlds first human made bacterium.
What is GMO or Genetically Modified Organism?
In the early 40's, the U.S. government sponsored secret research on the effects of radiation on human beings. Subjects were not told that they were participated in the experiments. Experiments were conducted on cancer patients, pregnant women, and military personnel.
What is informed consent?
Surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure.
What is Vivisection?
University of Otago bioethicists are calling for a more robust system of ethical governance in human gene-editing in the wake of the Chinese experiment aiming to produce HIV immune children. Name the technology.
What is CRISPR/Cas9?
The process of intending to end the life an individual to stop his or her pain and suffering. It is also loosely called as a mercy-killing, assisted suicide, or doctor-assisted suicide.
What is Euthanasia?
Louise Brown, the first woman to be born from fertilization that occurred outside of the body.
What is IVF or In Vitro Fertilization?
The Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War prompted the creation of research ethics principles for human experimentation.
What is the Nuremberg Code?
This Common Rule, formally known as the Final Rule on the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, aims to ensure that research involving humans is conducted in line with these standards and practices.
What is Ethical Standards?
New York City health officials issued summonses to parents of three children for failing to have their children vaccinated against this, a violation of the city’s emergency order mandating immunizations to control a surging outbreak.
What is Measles?
While the application on humans is still being studied, serious health and bioethical concerns are associated with it. Questions like the reaction of the brain to the new body, as well as the memory and individual identity are of concerns.
What is head transplant?
In 1966 this scientist published an article in N. Engl. J. Med. exposing 22 unethical studies in biomedicine, including the Tuskegee syphilis study and the Willowbrook hepatitis study.
Who is Henry Beecher?
Study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. in order to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis; the African-American men in the study were told they were receiving free health care from the United States government. None of the men were told that they had the disease, and none were treated with penicillin even after the antibiotic was proven to successfully treat syphilis.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment?
In the early 1920's these scientists used orphans as guinea pigs in studies testing dietary factors in rickets and scurvy by withholding essential nutrients from institutionalized infants until they developed the disease.
Who is Alfred Hess or Mildred Fish?
The almost 5 million people who paid to get their DNA analyzed by this company recently found out that their genetic data and related health information might have been sold to a major drug company.
What is Brain - Computer Interface?
This refers to transplantation of animal tissues and organs into human recipients, either without or with genetic modification of the animal to minimize tissue rejection. And this refers to the mixing of human and animal genes.
What is Xenotransplantation and Transgenics?
An act which created the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. A group which identified basic principles of research conduct and suggested ways to ensure those principles were followed.
What is The National Research Act?
In the Willowbrook hepatitis study, this scientist reasoned that it was justifiable to inoculate retarded children at Willowbrook with hepatitis virus because he figured most of them would get hepatitis anyway.
Who is Saul Krugman?
Driven by the desire to improve practitioner's behavior and develop a collective group identity, these physicians were known to have drafted the first formal codes of ethics, building upon the belief that medicine was an altruistic calling which emphasized the concept of fiduciary duty and shared responsibilities by doctors, patients and society.
Who is John Gregory or Thomas Percival?