"Ethics in Science" Online Articles

Required reading:

Meeting 2  
  On Being a Scientist

 

Meeting 5  
  Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Ethics of Scientific Research:
Chapter 2, "Professional Codes and the Duty to Do Scientific Research"
(via Blackboard/WebCT)
  Chapter 4, "Basic Principles: Promoting the Public Good" (via Blackboard/WebCT)

 

Meeting 8  
  "Data Management Guidelines Issued by British Medical Research Council"
  "Instructions for Authors," Journal of Bacteriology
  "NRC Reports on Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials"

 

Meeting 9  
Recommended "Modern Science as Patriarchy's Project" (via Blackboard/WebCT)
Recommended "Gender and racial Biases in Scientific Research" (via Blackboard/WebCT)

 

 

Meeting 14  
Recommended "A Case Study in historical Relativism: The Tuskegee (Public Health Service) Syphilis Study" (via Blackboard/WebCT)

 

Meeting 15  
  The Belmont Report
Recommended "Goodbye to All That: The End of Moderate Protectionism in Human Subject Research" (via Blackboard/WebCT)
Recommended "AIDS Research and the Nuremberg Code" (via Blackboard/WebCT)

 

Meeting 16  
Recommended "A new look at international research ethics" (via Blackboard/WebCT)
Recommended "Fair benefits for research in developing countries" (via Blackboard/WebCT)

 

I will also add links to relevant articles (that are not required reading) as the term goes on.

 

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