Informed consent

The Ethical Dilemmas of Dr. Zimbardo`s Stanford Prison Experiment Alexander Claerbaut Michigan Technological University Abstract This paper is about the ethical errors that can be observed in the Stanford Prison Experiment ran by Philip Zimbardo, PhD. This experiment involved Zimbardo randomly assigning college aged volunteers to either play a guard or a prisoner role in a prison simulation. His goal was to discover how human behavior was affected by a bad setting. I will discuss multiple…

Between 1932 and 1972 an infamous clinical study was conducted by The Public Health Service, called The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. It was to study and record the natural progression and growth of untreated syphilis in 600 impoverished, African-American men, in hope to find treatment programs for people involved in the study. Out of the 600 men, 399 had the disease and 201 did not have the disease. While doing so, they would receive free health care from the United States Government.…

Unethical Research In ethical research it is important to respect the rights of the subjects, but unfortunately this is not the case for all studies. In some studies the subjects are not treated fairly and now there is the prevalence of research misconduct which consist of “fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in the process of conducting and reporting research in nursing and other healthcare disciplines” (Burns, 2011, p. 103). Some people may not be familiar with all the ethical…

have enacted additional laws and hospitals maintain their own patient bill of rights identified upon admission to their facilities. One important right emphasized is a patient’s right to informed consent in regards to treatment options (U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2016). Under the muse of informed consent, CAM options should also be included in the discussion prior to the patient making a decision regarding treatment. In aligning these ideals, nurses’ stand at the forefront in…

subjects is conducted ethically. Ethical mandates, however, are difficult to implement given the diversity of opinions that comprise human moral thought. This essay will explore several ethical consideration as they relate to research, specifically, consent, confidentiality, the Belmont report and its implications, beneficence and the role of research review boards. While established frameworks of conduct help guide researchers, ethical thought is continually evolving and changing the methods…

there was potential harm to the participants because Mr. Humphrey did not get his subjects’ consent, he used their license plate numbers to track them down, and interviewed them in disguise without revealing the true intent of his studies. The researcher also betrayed the participants trust by lying to them about who he actually was and what he was doing. Furthermore, by Mr. Humphreys not getting the consent of the participants he did risk the participant’s suing him and or the American…

Critically analyze current practice to formulate researchable problems. The outcome for critically analyzing current practice and formulating researchable problems was met through the weekly assignments and readings completed for the course. Identifying current everyday questions and problems found throughout my current work as a nurse stimulated my thoughts and assisted me with identifying an area of interest. Utilization of the internet and school library assisted me with identifying…

and Bio-Medical Research and Informed Consent is that researchers took and profited off of the cells of Henrietta Lacks without her consent and without compensating her or her family. There are certain facts that are important to understand in this case. The person who began this ethical issue was George Otto Gey when he used the cells made available to him that had been of Henrietta Lacks, creating the He-La cell line (Skloot, 2010). Sadly, at the time, informed consent did not yet exist and…

Thompson and Russo (2012) wrote this article with the purpose of outlining ethical issues that clinicians may encounter while conducting qualitative research. In addition, Thompson and Russo (2012) provided some suggestions to help clinicians avoid these ethical dilemmas. The article began with a discussion about the importance of understanding ethics as a clinical psychologist, particularly when conducting qualitative research. Specifically, Thompson and Russo (2012) argued that qualitative…

reflects on the political order within Japanese society, under which a lack of trust in the medical profession has raised questions on the misdiagnosis of brain death and necessity for organ retrieval. However, missing in this discussion was the informed consent relayed on the family, over which a surgeon responded, “it didn’t even occur to me to tell the…