The commercial spaceflight industry is expanding opportunities for scientific research in space, but the industry needs clear ethical guidelines before human research is ready for liftoff. In a new ...

Considering the ethical implications of scientific innovations at the outset of a project can benefit researchers, patients, ...

A few weeks ago, our Board of Scientific Advisor Susan Goldhaber wrote about a better way to determine the toxicity of compounds than using animal studies. A scientist and veterinarian provide some ...

Ethics in STEM is a research area that focuses on the critical ethical dimensions of our designed and engineered world. We seek to challenge various cultural assumptions about what ethics is and how ...

The Research Ethics Concentration within the MA in Bioethics and Medical Humanities is designed to prepare students to pursue research ethics-related work or empirical investigations. Scientific ...

Medical schools are selecting future doctors who can navigate uncertainty, communicate across differences and make decisions ...

Tobey Karen Scharding, a visiting professor and fellow at Rutgers Business School’s Institute of Ethical Leadership, has carved out an area of academic research that raises questions about the ethical ...

Bianca Fileborn has previously received funding to undertake research on sexual violence. Thirty-nine Australian universities will now individually release the findings of a national research project ...

Prisoners are an especially vulnerable class of potential research participants who historically have been exploited by physicians and researchers seeking expedient solutions to complex research ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. In many important ways, the U.S. correctional system is different than it was in the ...