"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 WebCT)
  Chapter 4, "Basic Principles: Promoting the Public Good" (via 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  
  NCSU Research Ethics Mini Rounds Module IX, "Responsible Use of Statistical Methods"

 

Meeting 11  
Recommended "Modern Science as Patriarchy's Project" (via WebCT)
Recommended "Gender and racial Biases in Scientific Research" (via WebCT)

 

Meeting 13  
Recommended "Public Health Research and Uncertainty" (via WebCT)

 

Meeting 17  
Recommended "A Case Study in historical Relativism: The Tuskegee (Public Health Service) Syphilis Study" (via WebCT)

 

Meeting 18  
  The Belmont Report
Recommended "Goodbye to All That: The End of Moderate Protectionism in Human Subject Research" (via WebCT)
Recommended "AIDS Research and the Nuremberg Code" (via WebCT)

 

Meeting 19  
Recommended "A new look at international research ethics" (via WebCT)
Recommended "Fair benefits for research in developing countries" (via WebCT)

 

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

 

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