CiNii Books - Ethical issues in scientific research : an anthology

First published in 1994. This is Volume 2 of a selection of studies in Applied Ethics focusing on ethical issues in scientific research in aid to support students when applying ethics to their research training. courses The need for these courses expresses the recognition that the ethical dimensions of various types of scientific research greatly affect the general population and therefore require serious study and debate. This collection of essays addresses the major areas of moral debate regarding research: fraud and deception, controlled experiments on humans, animal and genetic research, IQ and military research. The essays collected here represent the best efforts to date of philosophers and scientists to grapple with these interesting and difficult issues.

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Part 1 Science and Values
Chapter 1 Science and Human Values, Carl G. Hempel
Chapter 2 The Exact Role of Value Judgments in Science, Michael Scriven
Chapter 3 The Structure of the Argument, Richard Nicholson, Richard Hale
Part 2 Fraud and Deception in Scientific Research
Chapter 4 Fraud and the Structure of Science, William Broad, Nicholas Wade
Chapter 5 The Murky Borderland between Scientific Intuition and Fraud, Ullica Segerstrale
Chapter 6 On the Supposed Indispensability of Deception in Social Psychology, Steven C. Patten
Chapter 7 Keeping Deception Honest: Justifying Conditions for Social Scientific Research Stratagems, Alan C. Elms
Chapter 8 The Case for Deception in Medical Experimentation, J. David Newell
Part 3 Experimentation on Humans
Chapter 9 An Argument That All Prerandomized Clinical Trials Are Unethical, Don Marquis
Chapter 10 The Conflict between Randomized Clinical Trials and the Therapeutic Obligation, Fred Gifford
Chapter 11 Sins of Omission? The Non-Treatment of Controls in Clinical Trials-I, Michael Lockwood
Chapter 12 Sins of Omission? The Non-Treatment of Controls in Clinical Trials-II, G.E.M. Anscombe
Part 4 Animal Research
Chapter 13 The Significance of Animal Suffering, Peter Singer
Chapter 14 Singer's Intermediate Conclusion, Frank Jackson
Chapter 15 On Singer: More Argument, Less Prescriptivism, David DeGrazia
Chapter 16 The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research, Carl Cohen
Chapter 17 On the Ethics of the Use of Animals in Science, Dale Jamieson, Tom Regan
Part 5 Genetic Research
Chapter 18 Genetic Engineering, Peter Singer, Deane Wells
Chapter 19 The Genetic Adventure, Stephen P. Stick
Chapter 20 What Is Wrong with Eugenics?, Robert Wachbroit
Chapter 21 Human Gene Therapy: Scientific and Ethical Considerations, W. French Anderson
Part 6 Controversial Research Topics
Chapter 22 Forbidden Research: Limits to Inquiry in the Social Sciences, Dorothy Nelkin
Chapter 23 The Intelligence Controversy: The Ethical Problem, H.J. Eysenck
Chapter 24 The Fallacy of Richard Herrnstein's IQ, Noam Chomsky
Chapter 25 Conducting Scientific Research for the Military as a Civic Duty, Kenneth W. Kemp
Chapter 26 Military Funds, Moral Demands: Personal Responsibilities of the Individual Scientist, Douglas P. Lackey

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