Ethical Issues in Scientific Research

by Erwin, Edward; Gendin, Sidney; Kleiman, Lowell

• ISBN13: 9780815306412
• ISBN10: 0815306415
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

After a brief overview, sections contain readings on such topics as science and values, science and the misrepresentation of data, human experimentation, animal experimentation, genetic research, and other controversial areas of research.

Table of Contents

Science and Human Values	p. 7
The Exact Role of Value Judgments in Science	p. 29
The Structure of the Argument	p. 51
Fraud and the Structure of Science	p. 69
The Murky Borderland between Scientific Intuition and Fraud	p. 91
On the Supposed Indispensability of Deception in Social Psychology	p. 111
Keeping Deception Honest: Justifying Conditions for Social Scientific Research Strategies	p. 121
The Case for Deception in Medical Experimentation	p. 141
An Argument That All Prerandomized Clinical Trials Are Unethical	p. 159
The Conflict between Randomized Clinical Trials and the Therapeutic Obligation	p. 179
Sins of Omission? The Non-Treatment of Controls in Clinical Trials - I	p. 201
Sins of Omission? The Non-Treatment of Controls in Clinical Trials - II	p. 219
The Significance of Animal Suffering	p. 233
Singer's Intermediate Conclusion	p. 245
On Singer: More Argument, Less Prescriptivism	p. 249
The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research	p. 253
On the Ethics of the Use of Animals in Science	p. 267
Genetic Engineering	p. 307
The Genetic Adventure	p. 321
What Is Wrong with Eugenics?	p. 329
Human Gene Therapy: Scientific and Ethical Considerations	p. 337
Forbidden Research: Limits to Inquiry in the Social Sciences	p. 355
The Intelligence Controversy: The Ethical Problem	p. 371
The Fallacy of Richard Herrnstein's IQ	p. 377
Conducting Scientific Research for the Military as a Civic Duty	p. 387
Military Funds, Moral Demands; Personal Responsibilities of the Individual Scientist	p. 397
Index	p. 411
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