Practical
Research – Ethics
in Qualitative
Research
GROUP 2
Guide Questions:
1. Based on the article, how will you define ethics in
research?
2. 2. Are the Tuskegee syphilis study and diethylstilbesterol
study on pregnant women unethical? Why?
3. 3. if you were part of the research teams who conducted
the research studies, what will you do to correct the
unethical aspect of the experiments?
1. Based on the article, how will you define ethics in
research?
- Ethics in research pertains to doing good and avoiding
harm. Harm can be prevented or reduced through the
application of appropriate ethical principles. Thus, the
protection of human subjects or participants in any research
study is imperative.
- Ethics in research conveys Honesty: Honestly reporting the
data results, methods and procedures, and publication
status. At its simplest, ethics is a system of moral principles.
They affect how people make decisions and lead their lives.
Ethics is concerned with what is good for individuals and
society and is also described as moral philosophy.
2. Are the Tuskegee syphilis study and diethylstilbesterol
study on pregnant women unethical? Why?
• Yes, the Tuskegee syphilis study and diethylstilbestrol study
on pregnant women were both unethical mainly because
there is no evidence that researchers obtained from
participants and it is illegal and inhuman to conduct
medical experiments on humans without any informed
consent and agreement especially when participants
were not offered any available treatments.
3. if you were part of the research teams who conducted the research
studies, what will you do to correct the unethical aspect of the
experiments?
- If I were part of the research team who conducted the research studies,
for me, I think it would be very difficult to correct the said experiments
because unethical experiments still hold some validity, because unethical
research means no validity. Depending on how unethical the research is.
But, at the same time I think we can still help the researchers correct
unethical aspect of their experiments but only as a concern researcher in
the same field. And first that is by identifying what experiments they are
talking about, where they were conducted, and who conducted them.
Then we have to provide evidence that some of the actions the
investigators took while conducting the experiments were unethical. And
finally, contact the investigators of those studies, ask them about what we
consider to be unethical aspects of their experiments, and see what they
have to say about it.