Volume 1 addresses issues of faculty responsibility to students; collaboration, authorship, and intellectual property; and human subjects.

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 1

Section 1. Faculty Responsibility to Graduate Students

• The Successful Side Business

Section 2. Faculty Collaboration with Students; Authorship

• Informal Discussions / Formal Authority
• The Lisa Bach Case
• To Publish Alone

Section 3. Collaboration, Intellectual Contribution, Authorship

• Jack Fry's Interview
• The Temporary Post-Doc
• So You Wanted to be a Co-Author

Section 4. Intellectual Property, Collaboration

• The Statute of Limitations
• Ownership of Knowledge and Graduate Education
• Protection from Proposal Idea Scooping?

Section 5. Research on Human Subjects -- Dead or Alive

• Do the Ends Justify the Means? The Ethics of Deception in Social Science Research
• Ethical Issues in Longitudinal Research with At-Risk Children and Adolescents
• Blowing the Whistle on a Therapeutic Experiment
• Informed Consent for Use of Stored Specimens
• With Bones of Contention: Repatriation of Human Remains

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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.