Deck 2: Research Ethics and Informed Consent

Question 1

Tom Regan argues that animals have a form of autonomy since they have preferences.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The notion of informed consent is a recognition of individual autonomy.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Paul Ramsey believes that it may be morally legitimate to use captive populations of children in research studies.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Educated and wealthy persons are equally as likely to become research subjects as the uneducated and poor.

Question 5

Researchers at the Willowbrook State School in New York deliberately infected children with hepatitis during the course of their experiments.

Question 6

Double-blind test designs are intended to rule out the influence of the expectations of researchers and patients.

Question 7

The majority of Phase III clinical trials sponsored by drug companies are carried out in the United States.

Question 8

The requirement that a person must consent to be in a medical trial can be satisfied by her simply agreeing to be in a medical trial.

Question 9

The aim of Abigail Alliance was to change FDA policies to give terminally ill patients easier access to investigational drugs that might benefit them.

Question 10

Peter Singer believes that speciesism is essential to right conduct.

Question 11

Carl Cohen believes that animals are the sort of beings that can possess rights and, because of that, we cannot morally sacrifice their interests for the welfare of others.

Question 12

The majority of medical research projects offer clear benefits to those who consent to be subjects in them.

Question 13

According to Peter Singer, there never has been and never could be a single experiment that saved thousands of lives.

Question 14

The related but distinct aims of medical research and therapy are a source of conflict in human experimentation.

Question 15

Hans Jonas believes that it is inherently wrong to force an individual to sacrifice him/herself to a social goal.