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Graduate Research Ethics: Cases and Commentaries- Volume 5, 2001

Author(s): Brian Schrag, editor (Association for Practical and Professional Ethics)

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

Bloomington, Indiana Prepared under NSF Grant No. SBR 941897

These cases and commentaries result from a series of workshops on Graduate Research Ethics Education, held at Indiana University, Bloomington, from 1996 to 2000. The project brought together many graduate and post-doctoral students in the natural sciences for a study of research ethics and reflects the experiences and problems they face. The project was sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF Grant No. SBR 9421897) to the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE); The Office of Research, University Graduate School, and Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, all at Indiana University.

These cases are works of fiction which reflect the current state of scientific and engineering knowledge at the time they were written. Names, characters, and places are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

Volume 5 - 2001

Section 1. Research on Humans

• An Impoverished Student
• Pregnancy Results
• Crossing Cultural Barriers: Informed Consent in Developing Countries
• But For the Fear of What You Might Find Out
• PI or Private Investigator

Section 2. The Use of Animals

• The Painful Experience

Section 3. Authorship

• Seminar
• Patent Authorship: Whose DNA is it anyway?
• To Be or Not To Be Included

Section 4. Relationships in the Lab

• The Hardware Lab
• Much Obliged
• Preliminary Data
• What a Site!
• The Slave Driver vs. the Lazy Student

Section 5. Scientists' Social Responsibilities

• A pHish Tale

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