Shocking Psychological Studies and the Lessons They Teach

Lessons from Tuskegee and Facebook (1x1)

Air date: Jun 10, 2020

Today, research with human subjects is guided by a set of three ethical principles of the 1976 Belmont Report, but that was not always the case. In the first lecture of this six-lecture course, Professor Polk explores the famous Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment and how its ethical violations ultimately led to the development of the Belmont Report and the ethical principles it identified.