Medical Ethical Codes

1. According to Malaysia medical ethical codes, the physician must maintain the utmost respect for human life and the human person. Also, the physician should not recommend nor administer any harmful material and should render help regardless of the financial ability, ethnic origin or religious belief of the patient. The Physician should protect the patient’s confidentiality and adopt an appropriate manner of communication. (Malaysia Medical Association, 2002, pg.6) According American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, psychologists should have beneficence and non-maleficence which strive to benefit those with whom they work and take care to do no harm. Besides, psychologists should respect for people’s rights and dignity by aware that special safeguard may be necessary to protect the rights and welfare of persons or communities whose vulnerabilities impair autonomous decision making. (American Psychological Association, 2010, paragraph 2 and 6) However, the medical ethical codes published by these two associations do not match the ethical codes conveyed by Milgram’s experiment. The first ethical issue involves in this experiment is deception. The participants …show more content…
Milgram’s discovery about social influence, power differences, power of the authority, abuse of power, and obedience to authority are the utmost elements present in his experiment. Social power can be defined as the ability of a person to create conformity, even when the people being influenced may attempt to resist those changes. (Dr. Charles Stangor, 2015) Milgram’s studies on obedience demonstrated the remarkable extent to which the social situation and people with authority have the power to create obedience. (Dr. Charles Stangor, 2015) It is the same when social power present in doctor-patient relationship. For example, patient does not question about doctor’s right to give any treatment to him or her whenever the doctor wants the patient to do