ABSTRACT

This volume includes more than 40 important articles on integrity and misconduct, biomedical research, the social and disciplinary contexts of science, research in the social sciences, the social responsibility of science and scientists, and other core issues in research ethics. A new introduction by the editor places these articles in their historical and conceptual context. The volume provides a rich library of resources, ideas and challenges in the ethics of research for any scholar concerned with such issues.

part I|1 pages

Foundations

chapter 2|7 pages

Experimentation in Children

A Reexamination of Legal Ethical Principles

part III|1 pages

Biomedical Research

chapter 16|5 pages

Of Mice But Not Men

Problems of the Randomized Clinical Trial

part IV|1 pages

Contexts of Science

chapter 22|1 pages

The Social Process of Science

chapter 23|39 pages

Science as a Vocation in the 1990s

The Changing Organizational Culture of Academic Science

chapter 25|11 pages

Misconduct and Social Control in Science

Issues, Problems, Solutions

part V|1 pages

Social Research

chapter 29|3 pages

Psychology in Action

Some Thoughts on Ethics of Research: After Reading Milgram’s “Behavioral Study of Obedience”

chapter 31|4 pages

Learning to Deceive

part VI|1 pages

Social Responsibility

chapter 33|2 pages

The Social Responsibilities of Scientists

A scientist can no longer shirk responsibility for the use society makes of his discoveries.

chapter 34|5 pages

Notes of a Biology-Watcher

The Hazards of Science