Well, if you want something more similar, watch the Harrison Ford movie K-19 The Widowmaker, based on the true life incident in the North Atlantic (1961 I believe). The nuclear reactor in the sub started heating up and had to be repaired up close to avert disaster on the sub and a US-Soviet clash. Some Soviet sailors volunteered (?) and some died in the process. Though the story is basically "true" those involved in it decried the liberties taken with details. Liberties aside, the movie is terrific on many levels. One theme that runs through the movie concerns motivations for following orders/volunteering/sacrificing. Does one do their "duty" for the state? or for just the comrades you share a sub with? It's also a study in leadership and group dynamics (reminescent of "12 OClock High") with a mutiny. Warning: watch this with a box of tissues. This was not a Harrison Ford box office smash, but the people I know who watched it continue to be haunted by it.
========================== John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Director, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 ========================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "michael sylvester" <msylves...@copper.net> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 10:32:59 AM Subject: [tips] Seems like Tuskegee/Guatemala in Japan The Japanese authorities call for retirees to volunteer to go inside the Nuclear plants to put out the fires sort of reminds me of the infamous Tuskegee-Guatemala experiments although the similarities could be ideologically challenged. The rationale of the Japanese is that the retirees will die anyway long before they gat full blown cancer from the massive exposure to radiation. Are there ethical concerns here? As the cross-cultural dude on Tips,it would seem that the kamakaze paradigm of the Japanese is almost equivalent to Maslow's need for self-transcendence. Btw,a few years ago some of my students thought that it was ok to give experimental drugs to Aids' clients with the caveat that if the drugs were ineffective nothing would be lost since the Aids' clients "would supposedly die anyway." I guess,if in the U.S, we subject our retirees to such a mission,the U.S would be accused of elderly abuse. I may be tempted to volunteer but someone stole my two six-packs of potassium iodide. Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida kamakaze paradigm --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: ku...@mail.plymouth.edu . To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13338.f659d005276678c0696b7f6beda66454&n=T&l=tips&o=9461 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-9461-13338.f659d005276678c0696b7f6beda66...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=9462 or send a blank email to leave-9462-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
