Research & Biological Issues

Curriculum Design and Instruction To Teach

Research and Biological Issues: Taking Sides:




Author: Charles Hayes:


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I. Introduction:

A. Issue 1: Can Deception in Research Be Justified?

1. Yes: Stanley Milgram, from "Subject Reaction: the

Factor in the Ethics of Experimentation," Hastings

Center Report:

2. No: Thomas H. Murray, from "Learning to

Deceive," Hastings Center Report:

Some researchers contend that subjects must

sometimes be "fooled" into yielding important

experimental results. It is argued that the results

will be unreliable if the subjects know the true

objective of the experiment. Is the danger of

embarrassment or even anguish for the subject

justified by the information that is produced?


B. Issue 2: Can Experiments Using Animals Be

Justified?


1. Yes. Frederick A. King, from "Animals in

Research: The Case for Experimentaiton,"

Psychology Today:

2. No. Peter Singer, from "Tools for Research, or

What the Public Doesn't Know It Is Paying for," The

New York Review of Books:


Psychologist Frederick King argues that

psychological research using animals benefits

society in many positive ways and that high

standards of human treatment are maintained. But

philosopher Peter Singer describes the "brutal

consequences" of animal research:

C. Issue 3: Is Our Behavior Primarily Determined by

Biological Processess?

1. Yes: Richard Restak, from "Is Free Will a fraud?"

Science Digest:

2. No: Joseph E. Rychlak, from "Free Will: 'doing

Otherwise, All Circumstances Remaining theSame,"

an original essay written for this volume: Is free

will a delusion? Do biological processes control

out behavior? Or do physiological research

generally support the existence of free will? The

questions are addressed and debated by a

forensic neurologist and a humanistic psychologist:

D. Issue 4: Do Attitude Affect Cancer?

1. Yes: Judit Glassman, from "beating the Odds,"

New Age jounal:

2. No: Marcia Angell, from "Disease as a Reflection

of the Psyche," New England Journal of Medicine:

There is great trauma that attends serious

disease. Can a positive attitude affect the

progress of illness, or are we doing a disservice

to patients by suggesting that they bear a

responsibility for their condition? Science has

produced conflicting evidence in response to this

question.

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