Chapter 06 Self Quiz

Human Research
. An inactive or sham treatment is called a

. Physicians who are in doubt about the relative merits of the treatments in a study are said to be

. The infamous experiment to study the damaging effects of untreated syphilis in 600 poor black men is known as

. A scientific study designed to test a medical intervention in humans is known as

. An indispensable feature of most clinical trials is

. A widely accepted proviso in human research is that the use of placebos is unethical when effective treatments are already available.

. It is generally understood that consent to do research on children is not required.

. Probably the chief argument against the third-world AZT studies is that in using a placebo (no-treatment) group, some of the subjects were deprived of an effective treatment that could have prevented many babies from being infected with HIV.

. For a clinical trial to be morally permissible, subjects must give their informed voluntary consent.

. Science has shown that race is not an innate, genetically defined feature of populations; it is instead defined culturally, legally, and socially.

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