Responsible Conduct of Research

Shamoo (applied professional ethics, U. of Maryland at Baltimore) and Resnick (medical humanities, East Carolina U.) present an introduction to the ethical issues in the use of humans and animals in research. Coverage ranges from broad issues relating to social responsibility, research funding, and freedom of inquiry to more specific topics such as ethical aspects of recording data in lab notebooks, experiment design, citing published works, and deciding authorship matters. While focused on...