When I was a young child I offered my grandfather a king size chocolate bar after he came home from a long day of work, which he kindly refused. However it was not until I grew older that I understood the concept that my grandfather had diabetes. I had innocently believed that I was actually helping my grandfather when in fact, I was ignorant to the fact that a sugar filled chocolate bar could have been detrimental to his health. This type of ignorance is extremely detrimental to the research of various fields of study. Through the results of various case studies throughout history, it is evident that research has gone astray due to the ignorance of researchers and regulators towards their subjects. One might believe that the
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For example the case study of “Subject to the Aboriginal Experiments” in 1942 describes how government researchers abused their freedom and took advantage of people who were starving and never once thought how they could have helped them. However it is worth noting that the researchers had good intentions and were attempting to find a way to help people’s health, ultimately they failed to realize that the people they tried to help should have also included the aboriginals. By analyzing this example we can identify that one of the main issues in this study was ignorance shown in the lack of seeing the aboriginals as equal individuals. Another is the issue of the research failing to benefit the subjects of the experiments, which was later improved through the implementation of the Belmont Report in 1974 and having beneficence as a principle. Through this experiment it is evident that freedom in an experiment should be limited on the basis of how knowledgeable the researchers are towards a group of subjects and making sure that they are not the only ones who benefit from the experiment as long as the subjects do as well. Freedom should only be present towards researchers as long as both parties are benefitted positively. If one or the other cannot benefit in a positive manner then it is clear that the experiment has no positive impact on
For example the case study of “Subject to the Aboriginal Experiments” in 1942 describes how government researchers abused their freedom and took advantage of people who were starving and never once thought how they could have helped them. However it is worth noting that the researchers had good intentions and were attempting to find a way to help people’s health, ultimately they failed to realize that the people they tried to help should have also included the aboriginals. By analyzing this example we can identify that one of the main issues in this study was ignorance shown in the lack of seeing the aboriginals as equal individuals. Another is the issue of the research failing to benefit the subjects of the experiments, which was later improved through the implementation of the Belmont Report in 1974 and having beneficence as a principle. Through this experiment it is evident that freedom in an experiment should be limited on the basis of how knowledgeable the researchers are towards a group of subjects and making sure that they are not the only ones who benefit from the experiment as long as the subjects do as well. Freedom should only be present towards researchers as long as both parties are benefitted positively. If one or the other cannot benefit in a positive manner then it is clear that the experiment has no positive impact on