Question

According to Capron, psychiatrists who – in desperation to find cures for their mentally ill patients – sought a minimum increase in minimum risk for RCTs were operating on:
A) Freedman’s concept of clinical equipoise
B) clinical hunches that over-rode individual equipoise
C) an overinflated view of the value of their research
D) a conception of a basic minimum of health care

In Laine Ross’s article: McCormick’s answer to Ramsey’s objection that it is wrong to experiment on children because they are being treated as means to ends was that:
A) the potential benefits to society as a whole outweigh any duty to treat children as ends
B) it is not wrong to treat children as means provided that you also treat them as ends
C) children are not rational adults, and so they are by definition not ends in themselves
D) parents who give informed consent on behalf of their children are being treated as ends.

Which one of the following situations is closest to what Capron means by the “therapeutic misconception?”
A) enthusiastically enrolling one’s patient in a clinical study that is the first of its kind to test the effectiveness of a certain experimental drug
B) enthusiastically enrolling one’s patient in a clinical study where there is already some evidence that the drug being tested is effective
C) enthusiastically enrolling one’s patient in a clinical study where there is high consensus in the medical community about the effectiveness of the drug being tested
D) enthusiastically enrolling one’s patient in a clinical study in order for the patient to get free medical therapy since they cannot afford to pay medical bills.

Which one of the following situations is closest to what Brody and Miller mean by the “therapeutic misconception?”
A) enthusiastically enrolling one’s patient in a clinical study that is the first of its kind to test the effectiveness of a certain experimental drug
B) enthusiastically enrolling one’s patient in a clinical study where there is already some evidence that the drug being tested is effective
C) enthusiastically enrolling one’s patient in a clinical study where there is high consensus in the medical community about the effectiveness of the drug being tested
D) enthusiastically enrolling one’s patient in a clinical study in order for the patient to get free medical therapy since they cannot afford to pay medical bills.

Answer 1