ETHICS

Ethics

Ethics

The author in the article “Questioning Privacy Protections in Research” tries to discuss issues regarding privacy of humans involved in the research process. According to a report in 1970 that a poor African American man left untreated just because he could be researched to study the illness syphilis. Since, that disturbing case happened; every institution conducting research must have an institution review board or IRB which could monitor the research conditions (Macrina, 2005). The reforms also suggest that the human subjects in the research should also be made aware that they are being used for what purpose, hiding and not revealing ...