Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee's qualified acceptance of Milgram's procedure tells much about its values. Professor Sheldon White acknowledged that Harvard's committee was probably "more on the side of the researcher" than the equivalent committees at Berkeley and Stanford. One committee member who was concerned about the possible harm to Milgram's subjects felt research could be sufficiently important to outweigh this damage--she felt the world's pressing problems require knowledge, and consequently research...
...days when experimenters could do what they wanted are gone. Although the committee is quite cautious in the areas of confidentiality, privacy and legality, if a situation came up in which they felt the research was valuable enough, they would probably allow the risk of much possible harm. In the area of human experimentation, morality is becoming bureaucratized, and ethics institutionalized. Research is king. Like an over-anxious mother, Harvard's watchdog committee examines, modifies and then approves of everything that comes its way. Fortunately there are no Milgrams in the research community...
...feel a man should be permitted to kill himself because a voice which he hears in his head one week tells him this is his duty. I would not want for a friend the supposedly idealistic and well intentioned men who would give me the freedom to harm myself when I was not of sound mind. A law which would permit this must be considered equally uncaring and in essence sadistic...
...able to escape confinement in the mental institutions of this state. The statute provides for the involuntary commitment of any person ". . . subject to a disease, psychosis, psychoneurosis or character disorder which renders him so deficient in judgment or emotional control that he is in danger of causing physical harm to himself or to others, . . . or is likely to conduct himself in a manner which clearly violates the established laws, ordinances, conventions, or morals of the community." (Emphasis supplied...
State legislatures have failed to make policy decisions specifying who shall be detained and why. Nor have they specified the necessary degree of likelihood for a person to commit a harm. In other words, it doesn't matter whether a person might commit a harm, is likely to commit a harm, or is more than likely to commit a harm. In practice, all a psychiatrist must say is that a person is "likely to be dangerous to himself or to others" to effect his incarceration...