RESEARCH ETHICS CASE STUDIES
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Animal
- Protocol Violations Putting Animal Subjects in Harm’s Way
- Researchers Pressured to Store Animal Subjects
- Technician Error Leads to Harm of Animal Subjects
- The Three Rs of Animal Research
- The Wild West of Animal Experimentation
- RCR Casebook: Ethics in Animal Care and Use
- RCR Casebook: A Disturbing Lab Protocol
Authorship and Publication
Collaborative Research
- Eager Researcher Signs Away Intellectual Rights Despite University Refusal
- Failed Patenting Negotiations in Collaborative Research
- Intellectual Rights Involving Multiple Institutions
- Robbing the Grave: Investigator Takes Ownership of Deceased Scholar’s Work
- Rules of Data-Sharing in Collaborative and Non-Collaborative Research
- RCR Casebook: An Uncomfortable Working Relationship
Data Management
- The Follow-up Process: Obligations of Researchers to Anonymous Donors
- Paper or Plastic? From Paper Records to Electronic Database
- Property, Contract, Privacy Rights in the Human Body
- Property, Privacy, and Public Health Obligations at Conflict in AIDS Research?
- Three Scenarios Concerning Anonymous Donations
- RCR Casebook: Genome Data Breach
Human Subjects
- Ethical Issues in Longitudinal Research with At-Risk Children and Adolescents
- Hepatitis Studies at the Willowbrook State School for Children
- Research with Sex Addicts
- Subjects at High-Risk for AIDS Used in AIDS Research
- Withholding Study Purpose
- RCR Casebook: The Ethics of Tackling
- RCR Casebook: First-in-Human Research – Selecting Appropriate Subjects
Peer Review
- Double Jeopardy: Researcher’s Proposal Gets Rejected Twice
- Procrastinating Researcher Delegates Reviews to Trainee
- Procrastinating Reviewer
- Reviewer Fails to Disclose Conflict of Interest
- Threat of Lawsuit by Researchers Thwart Publishing of Article on Questionable Conduct
- RCR Casebook: Mysteriously Similar Articles
Research Misconduct