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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Cathriona Russell; Linda Hogan; Maureen Junker-Kenny |
ISBN: | 9780123914842 0123914841 |
OCLC Number: | 815391041 |
Description: | 1 online resource (281 pages) |
Contents: | Front Cover; Ethics for Graduate Researchers; Copyright Page; Contents; About the authors; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. Developing Ethics as a Core Competency: Integrity in Scientific Research; 1 Recognising Traditions of Argumentation in Philosophical Ethics; Agency and Ethics in a Technological Culture; Traditions of Ethical Argumentation; Virtue Ethics; Self and Conscience, or Character?; The Scope of Protection for Vulnerable Subjects; The Status of Ethics; Utilitarian/Consequentialist Ethics; Deontological Ethics of Human Dignity; Contract Ethics; Discourse Ethics. Cultural Memory and Political Institutions as Decisive Contexts for Research Parameters and for Public DebateBibliography; 2 Navigating the Minefields: Ethics and Misconduct in Scientific Research; Introduction; What Is Meant by Research Ethics?; Why Might Scientists Misbehave?; The Nature of Scientific Misconduct; Ethics and Authorship; Ethics and Peer Review; Plagiarism in Scientific Writing: A Plague on All Our Houses; Ethics and the Treatment of Colleagues (and Rivals); Dealing with Error; Conclusions; Acknowledgement; Bibliography; 3 Ethics and the Researcher; Introduction. The ResearcherThe Research Supervisor; When Things Go Wrong; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; Bibliography; 2. Research Ethics Governance in the EU; the Role of Civic Debate, the Question of Limits in Research; Questions by Ethicists to their Role in the Public Realm; Recognition of the Precautionary Principle; Transparency of Research; Bibliography; 4 Bioethics and Biolaw in the European Union: Bridging or Fudging Different Traditions of Moral and Legal Argumentation?; Two Traditions of Thinking: Self-Determination and Dignity. Controversies Between Different Traditions of Interpretation of Moral and Legal ConceptsGenetic Testing; Research for Health Purposes on Supernumerary Embryos; Good Clinical Practice; The Demand for Transparency in Research; Bibliography; 5 Ethics as Consensus Management in Expert Cultures -- or Through Civic Debate in the Public Sphere?; Dilemmas Between Science and Society; Science as a Quest for Knowledge and as Driven by Interests; Science Between Trust and Uncertainty in a Media-Dominated Society. Societal Dilemmas: Increasing Individual Options, Pluralism, Tolerance and the Lack of Restrictive ConsensusThe Political Dilemma Between Promotion and Restriction; Shifts in the Concept of Life; Controversies in Expert Cultures and in Civil Society About Patenting Embryonic Stem Cells; Conclusion: A Final Remark on Pluralism and Tolerance as Leading Values; Bibliography; 6 Nanomedicine and European Ethics -- Part One; Ethics in Nanosciences: The ELSA Approach; Prevention via Pre-Symptomatic Testing, Diagnosis and Monitoring; Therapy; Safety in Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine. |
Abstract:
Intended as a primer for core concepts and principles in research ethics and as an in-depth exploration of the contextualization of these principles in practice across key disciplines, this book explores the scientific integrity of the researcher and the research process, human cloning as a test case for the limits to research.
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