Publication
Ethics
A Case Study from Fluency
Former Title: Ethics: A Case Study
- Details:
- 227 pages, Illustrated (B/W), Softcover, 6 x 9"
- ISBN13:
- 978-1-59756-010-8
- Release Date:
- 11/01/2005
Overview
- Unique - undergraduate and graduate students in communication sciences and disorders do not currently have a resource for ethics other than ASHA's Code of Ethics. The present proposal uses the case study format (the Tudor study) to explore ethics of research in stuttering circa 1939 as well as more general applications to the field.
- Controversial - the Tudor Study has been compared to Nazi medical experimentation and maltreatment of orphan children
- Dispassionate - unravels the sensationalist media coverage of the Study to take a scientific and reasoned review and examination of the ethical outcomes presented
Recent media attention to a 1939 master's thesis that has become known as the Tudor study prompted Dr. Goldfarb and others to revisit the ethical consideration of this study as a means of exploring ethical issues in clinical and research practices today.
Over sixty years ago, under the supervision of Wendell Johnson (one of the founders of the science of speech-language pathology), graduate student Mary Tudor conducted a study to examine the effect of verbal labeling on the frequency of disfluency in both children who stuttered and children who were fluent. The subjects came from an orphanage in Davenport, Iowa. Johnsons and Tudors findingsthat they were allegedly able to induce stuttering in normally fluent childrensupported their hypothesis, but have also raised serious ethical concerns.
In this book, Dr. Goldfarb has gathered the leading authorities in stuttering and, together, they investigate the Tudor study and, more broadly, ethics in scientific research, diagnosis, and treatment in the field of communication sciences.
Students and clinicians alike will find the accounts within this book engaging, stimulating, and ultimately relevant.
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- Contributors
- Introduction
- The Stuttering Doctors Monster Study.
Gretchen Reynolds - Diagnosis.
Robert Goldfarb - Research in Stuttering at the University of Iowa Circa 1939.
Oliver Bloodstein - The Tudor Study and Wendell Johnson.
Ehud Yairi - Teaching Research Ethics in Communication Disorders Programs.
Barbara Schmidt, Elizabeth Galletta and Loraine K Obler - Would Todays IRB Approve the Tudor Study? Ethical Considerations in Conducting Research Involving Children with Communication Disorders.
Richard G Schwartz - Some Physiological Studies on Stuttering.
Katherine S Harris - An Atheoretical Discipline.
Robert Goldfarb - Retroactive Ethical Judgments and Human Subjects Research: The 1939 Tudor Study in Context.
Nicholas Johnson - Appendix: The ASHA Code of Ethics
- Index
About The Author
Robert Goldfarb, PhD, FASHA, is Professor (with the Professor Recognition Award) of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Adelphi University and Emeritus Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, where he was also Executive Officer. He was a Fulbright Specialist in Applied Linguistics/TEFL in Bogotá, Colombia in 2013. He has published in the areas of adult aphasia, the language of dementia, and the language of schizophrenia, and is also co-author of two tests: The Stocker Probe for Fluency and Language (1995) and Time-Altered Word Association Tests (TAWAT, 2013). He edited and contributed chapters to two books and co-authored six others. He is the recipient of major awards and highest honors from New York City and New York State professional associations.
Related Titles
Narrative-Based Practice in Speech-Language Pathology
368 pages, Illustrated (B/W), Softcover, 6 x 9"