Scientific Integrity: Text and Cases in Responsible Conduct of Research (ASM Books)

I like the quality of writing, information, organization of materials for use in instructional setting.I'm using it to teach an upper level high school laboratory science course: Scientific Research for a TN public school.I highly recommend it for anyone interested in doing scientific research at any level. Before I began formally teaching, I worked in medical research. What Macrina has to share is accurate and valuable!This is book is not a high school text. It is written for higher ed and advanced degree-seeking researchers. It works for our purposes at the upper level high school science courses.

Wonderful. This book covers a multitude of ethical issues encountered in science, but sometimes seems biased towards BME or clinical work. Regardless, it makes for a nice course on ethical practices and conduct in science.

We didn't end up using it much for my bioethics class but it was still a great resource for writing papers

The world of research ethics has become complicated. This is due in part to increasingly complicated research protocols, in part to evolving ethical mores, and in part to expanding institutional and legislative regulation of research. The beginning researcher (or even the experienced researcher) can easily become confused. This book attempts to provide a sort of roadmap to the ethical considerations and regulations in 21st Century science.Where the book excels is in its scope. It manages to cover everything from human subjects to animal rights to plagiarism and everything in between. As such, of course, some of the book's contents won't apply to every reader, but on the whole the book presents a good "first stop" in researching almost any ethical dilemma in scientific research.Many of us probably feel more than exhausted by the mindless regurgitation of the same handful of case studies in research ethics that seem to permeate the entire textbook publishing industry. This book is a welcome reprieve from reading the same cases and listening to the same lectures time and time again. Though any book on the topic must necessarily be an incomplete treatment of the subject, this one manages to hold the reader's interest much longer than expected.The book's failure, however, is that in its attempt to provide an encyclopedic view of research ethics, it often gives insufficient time to the details and nuances of many of these issues. While some regulatory matters are easy to describe objectively, many ethical debates wander into the area of moral reasoning, and the book often failed to capture the complexity of some of these issues. The book is also focused almost entirely on the ethical guidelines mandated for federally-funded research in the United States and offers very little insight into the ethical debates surrounding or legal status of privately funded research.The book becomes, then, neither a repository of well-balanced moral debates on research ethics nor a comprehensive guide to the process of getting a study through ethical review, but something in between: a conceptual overview of research ethics written for the serious scientist or science student looking for something with a bit more intellectual heft than the usual textbook ethics presentation.While the above comments are true for the majority of the book, the sixth chapter on animal research is a disappointment compared to the rest of the book. In its attempt to maintain respect for the differing positions on the issue, it fails to capture the magnitude of the debate and ultimately fails to adequately balance the research scientist's concerns against those of even the most extreme of fringe animal rights groups.Those looking for detailed guidance in getting their own projects through the various obstacles of ethical review won't find sufficient information here. However, the book's references are sufficiently well-documented that the book might put you on your way to finding what you need. Of particular use for these readers will be some of the appendices. Though the appendices overall are of mixed utility, the sample laboratory protocols provide a useful framework for the reader trying to write his or her own protocol.

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