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Research Ethics for Scientists: A Companion for Students
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Sep 2011, Pages: 224
This book will be about best practices in all the major common areas of research management and practice that are common to scientific researchers, especially those in academia. Aimed toward the younger scientist, it will critically examine the key areas that continue to plague scientists, even relatively mature and honest scientists, who continually deal with those who choose to misbehave or those who unintentionally slip into misbehaviour. The book will be arranged in functional themes and units that every scientist recognizes as crucial for sustained success in science: ideas, people, data, publications and funding. After an introductory chapter about the critical nature of elements (ideasà fundingà dataà publications) that are all necessary for running a laboratory and research projects, subsequent chapters will be presented to build upon these themes. For example, relative to ideas there will be chapters on plagiarism, credit and fairness. Note that there is some overlap between topics (e.g., plagiarism relates also to publications), but the book will integrate these overlaps into a structure that should help students and professional scientists see the interconnectedness of components successful for performing research.
This book will acknowledge and hopefully not overemphasize the authors own opinions and biases. Instead, the hope is that the reader will be challenged to develop and refine his or her own opinions on research ethics. Another feature of the book will be the use of real- and fictitious case studies that might be loosely based on actual cases (names, places, and details changed), which could be used to illustrate real-world dilemmas and the grey-scale nature of ethical choices that scientists must make. This feature should also make the book useful as a teaching tool in graduate education. The real case studies used are only those that have been elevated to the status of infamy.
The authors own involvement in research ethics and mentorship (as opposed to bioethics) evolved from a mishap in his own research lab in which a student was caught plagiarizing. In addition, he has overseen authorship negotiations in my group of 15-20 researchers in the past 15 years. These events have led to his teaching a graduate-level research ethics course that focuses on best practices in research that are portable among different areas of biology, medicine and agriculture
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