Ethics for Graduate Researchers: A Cross-disciplinary Approach

Ethics for Graduate Researchers: A Cross-disciplinary Approach
ISBN-10
0124160492
ISBN-13
9780124160491
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
260
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
Newnes
Authors
Linda Hogan, Maureen Junker-Kenny, Cathriona Russell

Description

This book is intended as a primer for concepts and principles in research ethics and as an exploration of the contextualization of these principles in practice across key disciplines. It is unique in that it combines an analysis of complex ethical debates about the nature of research and its governance with the best of case-based and discipline-specific approaches. It deals with the following topics in depth: in the natural sciences, it explores the scientific integrity of the researcher and the research process, human cloning as a test case for the limits to research, and the emerging ethical issues in nanotechnology; in the health sciences, it takes up the question of consent, assent and proxies, research with vulnerable groups and the ethics of clinical trials; in the social sciences, it explores the issues that arise in qualitative research, interviews and ethnography; and in the humanities, it examines contested archaeologies and research in divided societies.

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