Reflections on My Experience in Human Research Ethics

This paper was delivered at the 2009 annual conference of the National Council on Ethics in Human Research. It is a reflective piece based on many years of experience with human research ethics and the role of Research Ethics Boards in human participant research.     

Using Creative Writing Techniques to Enhance the Case Study Method in Research Integrity and Ethics Courses

The following article explores the use of creative writing techniques to teach research ethics, breathe life into case study preparation, and train students to think of their settings as complex organizational environments with multiple actors and stakeholders.     

Reflections on Ethics in Journal Publications

This paper addresses a number of ethical issues that arise in the context of journal publishing. These include both issues for the researcher and issues for the editors and editorial board members of journals.     

Promoting Ethics and Integrity in Management Academic Research: Retraction Initiative

Science and Engineering Ethics - In the management academic research, academic advancement, job security, and the securing of research funds at one’s university are judged mainly by...     

当代医学伦理学的四种研究进路及其反思

当代中国医学伦理学尚未形成统一的学科范式,但主要有四种研究进路：应用伦理学进路、经验主义进路、道德教育进路和生命伦理学进路。这四种进路在学术界占据着主导地位,构成了医学伦理学的基本知识图景。但是任何未经反思的知识前提都是不可靠的,需要从本体论、知识论和价值论的层面对它们进行认真的反思,以构建更加科学和系统的理论体系。在本体论上,需要考虑伦理学概念的本质属性及其与医学实践的联系。在知识论上,需要质疑伦理理论和具体应用之间的适用性和相关性。在价值论上,需要考虑伦理学研究和实践中所涉及的价值取向。

     

生态伦理背景中的健康道德凝思

健康道德是关于人类健康的一种道德观念.在生态伦理视域中健康道德观念被拓展、更新.它把人的健康、社会的健康和自然界的健康共同作为研究对象.它提出生态伦理视域下的健康道德具有公益性、代继性和共生性的基本特点,提出人人参加,事事参与;健康生活,健康行为;抵制陋习,抵制败俗;爱护环境,履行责任的道德要求.     

网络功能设计的伦理学反思

网络功能设计的功利价值导向导致网络用户不同程度的感知异化、能力异化和社会角色异化,引发了一系列重大的社会伦理问题。解决这些问题的可能途径是加强伦理因素在网络功能设计的评估和控制中的作用,以此来影响网络技术的发展方向、网络的社会管理和相应的伦理教育。     

Reflections on Ethics and Game Theory

Applications of game theory to moral philosophy are impededby foundational issues and troublesome examples. In the first part of this paper,questions are raised about the appropriate game-theoretical frameworks for applications to moralphilosophy and about the proper interpretations of the theoretical devices employed inthese frameworks. In the second part, five examples that should be of particular interest to thoseinterested in the connections between ethics and game theory are delineated and discussed. Thefirst example comprises games in which there is an outcome unanimously preferred to the``solution' of the game, appropriately defined. The second comprises games whose solution callsfor different players to employ different strategies. The third comprises games whosesolution calls for players to adopt mixed strategies. The fourth comprises games whose solutionrequires players to cycle among a variety of strategies. The fifth comprises games whose solutionrequires players to discriminate in morally inappropriate ways.     

厘清伦理与道德的关系

伦理与道德是伦理学的两个最基本概念。从古至今,关于什么是“伦理”,什么是“道德”,以及二者到底有着什么样的关系,一直就是伦理学界讨论的主要话题之一。伦理与道德的关系十分紧密,以至于我们经常将二者混同,但是严格地讲,伦理与道德是有着显著区别的两个概念。     

我国医患关系研究的进路与省思

基于CiteSpace可视化分析工具,以“医患关系”为关键词,分析近年来传播学视域的医患关系研究议题与进程,发现医患关系研究出现从“媒介”到“人”的研究转向。其中以“媒介”为中心的医患关系视角注重医患关系的媒介呈现和媒介宣传,以“人”为中心的医患关系视角注重媒介使用与医患信任建构、媒介与患者健康意向行为关系及新型医患沟通模式分析。同时,探讨提升中国社会的医患关系研究路径,提出未来研究更应注重制度和文化等语境,跳出实证主义范式以及单一的“医−患”二元视角,以推动医患关系研究的均衡与系统化发展。

     

Solidarity in Academia and its Relationship to Academic Integrity

Journal of Academic Ethics - This paper provides the theoretical analysis of forms of solidarity in academia and its relationship to academic integrity. This analysis is inspired by the Guidelines...     

劳动关系理论研究的社会伦理视角

劳动关系问题上的争论往往涉及社会的道德与伦理。许多劳动关系中的具体问题、具体标准的争论常常会上升为与价值判断有关的、抽象的概念、定义之争。和谐的劳动关系,是和谐社会的基础;从社会伦理视角深入研究影响劳动关系和谐的各种因素,对于社会主义和谐社会的构建不无裨益。     

不对称伦理：境遇危机下医患诚信的一种解读

医患诚信是一种不对称伦理形态,主体责任和缺失补偿不对等构成其伦理特质,崇敬生命承载其价值本质,原则倒置表征其正义诉求.我国医患诚信深陷境遇危机,人们对医患诚信的读误致使医患冲突进一步加剧.从伦理视域直面医患矛盾,重新解读深陷境遇危机的医患诚信,对于重建医患诚信具有重要的理论和现实意义.     

放弃治疗的法律和伦理学思考

调查放弃治疗后死亡病案629例,主要病因为恶性肿瘤和脑血管病.目前在临床工作中,对疾病晚期和临终期的患者,放弃治疗已成为家属和患者本人重要的选择之一.医患双方应该尊重医学科学,理性对待放弃治疗,履行双方应尽的义务,维护双方合法权力,维护法律的尊严.医院应该加强管理,正确处理放弃治疗的相关问题,更好地服务于患者和社会.     

Institutional Approaches to Research Integrity in Ghana

Science and Engineering Ethics - Research misconduct (RM) remains an important problem in health research despite decades of local, national, regional, and international efforts to eliminate it....     

The Nazi Engineers: Reflections on Technological Ethics in Hell

Engineers, architects, and other technological professionals designed the genocidal death machines of the Third Reich. The death camp operations were highly efficient, so these technological professionals knew what they were doing: they were, so to speak, good engineers. As an educator at a technological university, I need to explain to my students—future engineers and architects—the motivations and ethical reasoning of the technological professionals of the Third Reich. I need to educate my students in the ethical practices of this hellish regime so that they can avoid the kind of ethical justifications used by the Nazi engineers. In their own professional lives, my former students should not only be good engineers in a technical sense, but good engineers in a moral sense. In this essay, I examine several arguments about the ethical judgments of professionals in Nazi Germany, and attempt a synthesis that can provide a lesson for contemporary engineers and other technological professionals. How does an engineer avoid the error of the Nazi engineers in their embrace of an evil ideology underlying their technological creations? How does an engineer know that the values he embodies through his technological products are good values that will lead to a better world? This last question, I believe, is the fundamental issue for the understanding of engineering ethics.     

The Role of Virtue Ethics Principles in Academic Integrity Breach Decision-Making

This paper contends that principles of virtue ethics have the potential to both supplement and complement academic integrity policy in the adjudication of undergraduate student academic integrity breaches. The paper uses elements of grounded theory to explore responses from 15 Academic Integrity Breach Decision Makers (AIBDMs) at an Australian university, and in particular, the process they use to determine outcomes for student breaches of academic integrity. The findings indicate that AIBDMs often use principles of virtue ethics to help provide nuanced judgement on sometimes complicated breaches of ethical behaviour. The findings demonstrate that many AIBDMs supplemented their knowledge of institutional academic integrity policy with a deep commitment to their own virtuous behaviour.