Dr. Money With Participants David And Brian Reimer

Ethics in psychology are important because they protect people and animals from harm and mental damage. People conducting research must abide by a code of ethics. In the past a code of ethics did not exist because psychology was not considered a science. This essay will the discuss the experiment of Dr. Money with participants David and Brian Reimer.
The experiment was initiated after Brian and David went for a routine circumcision that ended badly when Brian had received un fixable damage to his penis. The parents then realized that turning Brian into a girl would be better for him. They enlisted the help of Dr. John Money who was a very respected psychologist and sexologist. The parents had been happy that they had finally found someone that can fix their son. Dr Money was also happy that he had someone to study. Dr Money believed that up until the age of 2, if you treated a child like it was
Money had done had breached many ethical rules that are in place today. From the participants in the experiment had suffered a great deal of mental damage. While Dr money was a believer in the nature v nurture, the experiment was extremely unethical. Ethics are important because they protect people in experiments. Some way his experiment could be done in safer and less harmful manner is to not do it at all because make a boy believe he is a girl is ruining his life because that’s how he was born. Doing experiments relating to a persons sexuality and their gender are very difficult to do because of tough ethical guidelines. The experiment left the brothers with extreme amounts of mental damage. For example one of the brother had felt that his brother had all the attention and he overdosed on drugs. The experiment had been trying to prove whether for example if a boy was raised as a girls he would be a woman. There are no benefits to this experiment therefore the risks and the harm to the participants did not out way the good or the