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Balancing Priorities: Social Responsibility in Teaching Responsible Conduct of Research--RONALD R. KLINE
Balancing Priorities: Social Responsibility in Teaching Responsible Conduct of Research--RONALD R. KLINE
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770) comments on the "‘neutrality view' of social responsibility" and cites previous authors who argue that the "social responsibility of researchers should include critical reflection of the socio-ethical context of their work." 3 Although the journal Science and Engineering Ethics, established in 1995, publishes articles that focus on the traditional priorities in the field of engineering ethics and the traditional priorities in the field of research ethics, 17
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BOX 1 Priorities in Research and Engineering Ethics Main Issues in Research Ethics Integrity of research Credit and authorship Conflicts of interest Welfare of subjects, experimenters, and environment Social implications of research Main Issues in Engineering Ethics Public's health, safety, and welfare, including the environment Being a faithful agent of the employer Conflicts of interest Credit (e.g., intellectual property provisions) Integrity of reports Sources: Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine (2009)
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A short list would include the unsafe design of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system; the amoral cost-benefit analysis in designing the gas tank of the Ford Pinto; the crash of a DC-10 airliner due to a cargo door opening after takeoff and the crash of a second DC-10 due to an engine falling off during takeoff; the partial meltdown of a nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island; the collapse of a fourth-floor walkway in the atrium of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City; the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India; and the space shuttle Challenger accident.
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Advising and Mentoring The Treatment of Data Mistakes and Negligence Research Misconduct Responses to Suspected Violations of Professional Standards Human Participants and Animal Subjects in Research Laboratory Safety in Research Sharing of Research Results Authorship and the Allocation of Grants Intellectual Property Competing Interests, Commitments, and Values The Researcher in Society Source: Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (2009)
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On Being a Scientist states that researchers "have a professional obligation to perform research and present the results of that research as objectively and as accurately as possible" ((Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy 2009, p.
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Resources and Examples While writing this paper, I looked for an existing case that would exemplify what I had in mind about teaching the broad social responsibility of conducting research. In the six volumes of cases on graduate research ethics, edited by Brian Schrag at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics and published from 1997 to 2002, I found one case on obligations to the public (Schrag 2001)
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Nanoethics, a new scholarly journal, was launched in 2007. I'll comment on two recent projects that integrate social responsibility in research ethics.9 In 2010, Robert McGinn proposed some brief ethical guidelines for nano researchers (McGinn 2010, pp.
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Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institutes of Medicine. 1992–1993 Responsible Science: Ensuring the Integrity of the Research Process.
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2005. Research ethics, engineering ethics, and science and technology studies.
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