History of Ethics in psychology

By Sbraden96
  • 6500 BCE

    Trephination

    Trephination was when the medicine man would drill holes into a person’s skull to release the demons. Treatments done often without the participance’s permission.

  • Tuskegee syphilis study

    Black share croppers were studied by the US Public Health Service to document disease in blacks in clinical manifestations of syphilis. Men weren’t told they had syphilis and medicine was being withheld from them. Public outrage stopped the study.

  • Nazi concentration camp experiments

    Homosexuals, Jew, blacks, and others forced to have unnecessary surgeries and tortured, Murder masked as research.

  • Palace of Justice Nuremburg, Germany

    Nuremburg code created as a set of ethical principles to follow

  • Tearoom Trade Study

    Researcher posed as a member of a homo-sexual community in order to gain access to Observing their behaviors in tea rooms.