Index of the contents of the NBAC report Ethical and Policy Issues in Research Involving Human Participants Report, Recommendations, and Commissioned Papers.
Janlori Goldman and Angela Choy Georgetown University. This paper describes how the public's fear and anxiety over the loss of privacy and confidentiality can threaten the research initiatives meant to benefit them. The federal government, researchers, Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), and research institutions will need to work together to provide strong privacy and confidentiality protections to build public trust and encourage continued participation in research.
C.K. Gunsalus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This paper was commissioned to examine whether NBAC should recommend unifying federal oversight of federal and private human subjects research under a single government office such as the Office for Protection from Research Risks (OPRR).
This scenario discusses an ethical problem when one is not sure in another's research, whether data was taken correctly resulting in possible errors in the data interpretation.
This scenario presents a situation where a graduate student realizes that the professor made up experimental results which were not accurate. The student had also written papers based on the professor's results adding to the problem.
New York: Cambridge University Press. Other keywords for this article: ethics and prudence; preferences vs. values; negligence; trust, distrust; ambiguity; moral ambiguity; responsibilities, general; professional responsibility; public safety; worker safety; laboratory safety; design process; engineering competence; environmental issues, global; environmental issues, chemical; conflict of interest; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; harassment, sexual harassment and aggression; workplace relationships; falsification and fabrication; plagiarism; authorship; human subjects in research; animals in scientific research.
John M. Staudenmeier, sj,The Politics and Ethics of Engineering
In press with pilot-project version for use in NSF-supported Greenfield Coalition ethics component at Focus: Hope, Detroit, MI. Other keywords for this: ethics and prudence; lying, deception; self-deception; moral ambiguity; pedagogy and the use of cases in teaching; incompetent superiors; professional responsibility; consulting relationships; professional societies; ethics support; workplace relationships; communication; research and cultural diversity; whistleblowing; research integrity; correcting errors in databases.