Scenarios for Ethics Modules in the Responsible Conduct of Research

These scenarios are part of a modular sequence of materials on the responsible conduct of research that support a series of activities for student-faculty learning.

Module topic areas

The Responsible Collection, Retention, Sharing, and Interpretation of Data: Data from a Graduate Course--Social Science; My Data; Changing the Procedure; Struggle over Data; Data Reduction Techniques; Risks to the Data; Confidentiality and Data Access; Data in a Press Release; Becoming an Advocate; Data Sharing and Intellectual Property; A lie or Just "a Way of Speaking"?; Outliers in Survey Data; Data and Collaboration; Disclosing Preliminary Results to Research Subjects; Fair Credit for Inventors

Special Issues in Conducting Human Genetic Research: Responding to a Request for Information; Recruiting Relatives of a Proband with a Stigmatizing Condition; Disclosing Preliminary Results to Research Subjects; Negotiating Research Practices with Local Communities; Using Shared Tissues Samples for Genetic Research; Recontacting Old Research Subjects with New Clinical Findings; A Question of Host Factors in Side Effects of Medication

Ethical Challenges in Research with Human Biological Material: Interpreting Consent for Research on Archived Tissue; When the Proposed Research May Be Objectionable to the Source of the Tissue; Balancing Scientific Usefulness with Privacy; Commercialization

The Ethics of Research With Subjects Who Have Dementia: Gene Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease; A Cognitive Enhancing Drug Requiring Blood Draws; An Anti-Oxident Compound to Slow Progression; Post-Menopausal Women at Risk

The Ethics of Research With Children: Conflicting Obligations: Part I; Conflicting Obligations: Part II; Conflicting Obligations: Part III; A Child's Question; An Asthmatic Child; The Nurse Researcher

The Ethics of Research With Human Subjects Who are Mentally Ill: The Patient Wants to Withdraw; The Dual Role of the Clinical Investigator; When Should We Accept Consent?; Conflicts of Interest and Informed Consent?; Disagreement About Consent; The Monitor's Consent

Responsibilities in the Editing and Reviewing of Journal Articles and Grant Applications: The Problem of Similar Manuscripts; Weighing Contributions to an Article; Editor's Oversite of Journal Article Reviews and Reviewers; Being the Chief; The Very Interested Reviewer; A Reviewer Learns the Fruitlessness of a New Research Project; A Claim of Prior Discovery by a Reviewer; Plagiarism in a Grant Proposal; Was Part of Your Proposal Plagiarized?; Credit and Time Pressure; How Should Undergraduates Acknowledge Research Aid?; Sharing Ideas; Plagiarism in a Lab; Choosing Reviewers

Responsibility for Bugs and Errors: Is There an Error?; The Disappearing Bottles; Doubts about Published Research; When Funding Runs Low; Building on a Premature Claim; Research Safety in Local Laboratories

The Supervisor-Trainee Relationship: Pressure from Consulting; Question of Mentoring Bias; Gender Issues: Should You Find a New Supervisor?; The Endless Dissertation; An Aborted Ph.D. Program; Switching Advisors?; Getting a Recommendation; Supervisor's Recommendation for a Job; Oops--Broke Another One; Summer Vacation; Whose Intellectual Property?; Discussion Questions on the Supervising Relationship; The Family Problem; A Fruitless Thesis; Cooperation and Competition Between Two Thesis Students

The Ethics of Using Animals in Research: Experiment Discomfort; A Question of Sacrifice; Introducing Viruses in the Field; Survival Skills for Emerging Researchers; The New Hip; If You Were a Committee Member; Change the Protocol to Get Results? (text version); Change the Protocol to Get Results? (dialogue version); Look, I've Changed; Unexpected Adverse Events

Cite this page: "Scenarios for Ethics Modules in the Responsible Conduct of Research" Online Ethics Center for Engineering 8/4/2006 National Academy of Engineering Accessed: Thursday, September 02, 2010 <www.onlineethics.org/Topics/RespResearch/ResCases/ethicsmodscen.aspx>