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Courses that cover history and ethical principles often pair long readings with lecture slides, and the exam tests the specific framing your instructor used. Building cards from those exact pages keeps your review aligned with the test.

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Example ethics and history flashcards for research ethics

Which three principles does the Belmont Report (1979) name?Respect for persons, beneficence and justice. Each one guides how researchers treat human subjects.

What did the Nuremberg Code (1947) require before human research?Voluntary consent of the subject. Research should also avoid unnecessary physical and mental suffering.

What is the principle of beneficence?Maximize possible benefits and minimize possible harms to research participants.

What does the principle of justice require in research?A fair distribution of burdens and benefits, so no group is systematically selected for risk.

What was the central ethical failure of the Tuskegee Study?Withholding syphilis treatment from Black men without informed consent, even after penicillin became standard. It helped lead to the 1974 National Research Act.

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Start with the events, documents and named principles that appear most often in your notes. Each card should give one idea: a date, a document, a principle and the case it applies to. Short, precise cards are easier to review than long summaries.

Quiz questions help you practice applying principles rather than just recognizing their names. A scenario question asking which principle is at stake forces the kind of reasoning ethics exams reward.

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How do I study the Belmont Report principles for an ethics course?

Memorize the three principles of respect for persons, beneficence and justice, then practice applying each one to a short case. Flashcards help with the definitions, while scenario questions test whether you can spot which principle is at stake.

What should a history of ethics flashcard include?

Include the date, the document or event, the key claim and its consequence. For example, the Nuremberg Code of 1947 set out voluntary consent as essential for human research.

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