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The concept of RRI has emerged as a new framework to be used by the European Commission for research projects. It now lies at the core of the Horizon 2020 programme and is designed to replace current assessment practices focused on ethical review. The book will analyse the shift from ethical review to RRI: what remains of the former, what has been gained? Secondly, it makes a critical presentation of existing ethical reviews from the perspectives of moral philosophy and the philosophy of technology. It discusses conceptions of ethical assessment on different levels. Thirdly, this book presents the RRI pillars presented by the European commission, together with their possible relationships to different governance models. Moreover, existing academic literature on RRI, which is not yet extensive, is growing rapidly. Various frameworks highlighting the dimensions of and conditions for responsible research and innovation have been proposed to define RRI. However, in spite of a well-established tradition on the subject in moral theory and philosophy, none of these approaches has investigated the concept of responsibility in depth. Fourthly, and for this reason, the book will provide an analysis of various meanings of responsibility that have been identified in moral theory and will discuss their relevance for RRI in different contexts. It will defend a pluralist approach to responsibility and explore several combinations of responsibilities depending on how these responsibilities are shared in a given context. The book adopts both a theoretical and a practical approach by assessing different participatory devices and analysing a number of research cases.

This book, built around a set of conversations with the author, aims to illuminate the lived reality of educational research. It explores the experience of research and asks what qualities are needed to face its challenges. Other books present lists of what to do and what not to do. Here, we find out what really happens - and why

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Edited by two experts in the area, Geoethics: Ethical Challenges and Case Studies in Earth Sciences addresses a range of topics surrounding the concept of ethics in geoscience, making it an important reference for any Earth scientist with a growing concern for sustainable development and social responsibility. This book will provide the reader with some obvious and some hidden information you need for understanding where experts have not served the public, what more could have been done to reach and serve the public and the ethical issues surrounding the Earth Sciences, from a global perspe

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Selected concepts of logic and philosophy -- 3. Science in historical perspective -- 4. Philosophy of science in historical perspective -- 5. Mathematical modelling -- 6. Measurement -- 7. Scientific explanation -- 8. Context of discovery -- 9. Context of justification -- 10. Uncertainty of scientific knowledge -- 11. Basic concepts of Western ethics -- 12. Western ethics in historical perspective -- 13. System of values associated with science -- 14. Principles of moral decision-making -- 15. General issues of research ethics -- 16. Ethical aspects of experimentation -- 17. Ethical aspects of information processing -- 18. Legal protection of intellectual property -- 19. Ethical issues implied by information technologies -- 20. Concluding remarks -- Appendix: Milestones in the history of science -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms

Annotation, The concept of RRI has emerged as a new framework to be used by the European Commission for research projects. It now lies at the core of the Horizon 2020 programme and is designed to replace current assessment practices focused on ethical review. The book analyses the shift from ethical review to RRI: what remains of the former, what has been gained? It then makes a critical presentation of existing ethical reviews from the perspectives of moral philosophy and the philosophy of technology and discusses conceptions of ethical assessment on different levels

We already entered the era of Unmanned Vehicles, drones, boats and more recently cars are going to be "driven" by software, sensors, cameras, radars and more are the senses of our vehicles. If the risk that a flying or floating drone can be hacked is concerning us as well as the temporary lack of specific legislation, what about the concerns related to ethical and moral aspects, not neglecting the legal ones, concerning autonomous road vehicles such as cars and buses ? Safety and security standards for such devices are not set actually, how will behave two cars, both from the same builder or not, in case of imminent collision? Of course, the cyber-driver is supposed to be perfect but the environment may introduce some bias, hence on the moral and ethical side how will the cyber-driver take decisions? As an additional concern, today even cars may be subject to cyber-attacks as it already happened to Jeep vehicles in the United States, if on one side the regular car service or re-call for update can be performed through the permanent car connection to the Internet, no more need to physically take the car back to the service (this might lead to unwanted outcomes), on the other side in case of cyber-attacks our car might behave in a unpredictable way. As a consequence, possibly before a mass diffusion of such vehicles, we must be aware about some aspects: the risk of cyber-attacks that may turn everyday commodities like cars into "weapons" and the "programmed" behaviour of cars in case of "risky" scenarios. Security standards and harmonised "behaviours" together with an appropriate legal framework will probably help.

This book aims to distinguish acceptable from unacceptable interest influences in science. Jan De Winter criticizes existing views on the integrity of science and the roles of financial, political, and other interests in science, and develops an alternative view to shed new light on cases from medical science, aerospace science, climate science, and biology.

Couverture -- Titre -- Copyright -- Table des matières -- Préface -- Introduction -- 1. À la recherche d'un contrôle illusoire -- 2. Perspectives d'une jeune chercheure -- 3. Les aventures d'un juriste en terre étrangère -- 4. Des enjeux éthiques à l'évaluation éthique -- 5. Une nouvelle affection du chercheur en génomique? -- 6. Pour une réflexion sur l'état actuel de l'éthique de la recherche -- 7. L'éthique de la recherche: nature, obstacles et tensions -- 8. Cultiver des attentes pragmatiques à l'égard des comités d'éthique -- 9. Quand éthique et loi se confrontent -- 10. Intégrer l'éthique dans la recherche -- 11. Les CER sont-ils en train d'étrangler la recherche en épidémiologie ? -- Notices biographiques.

FrontMatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Reviewers -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Necessity and Challenges of Clinical Research Involving Children -- 3 Regulatory Framework for Protecting Child Participants in Research -- 4 Defining, Interpreting, and Applying Concepts of Risk and Benefit in Clinical Research Involving Children -- 5 Understanding and Agreeing to Children's Participation in Clinical Research -- 6 Payments Related to Children's Participation in Clinical Research -- 7 Regulatory Compliance, Accreditation, and Quality Improvement -- 8 Responsible Research Involving Children -- References -- Appendices -- A Study Origins and Activities -- B State Regulation of Medical Research with Children and Adolescents: An Overview and Analysis -- C Health Care Privacy and Conflict-of-Interest Regulations Relevant to Protection of Human Participants in Research -- D Glossary, Acronyms, and Laws and Regulations -- E Committee Biographical Statements -- Index.

CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 1 Ethics in Research With Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Processes, Power and Politics -- CHAPTER 2 Ethical Considerations in Refugee Research: What Guidance Do Formal Research Ethics Documents Offer? -- CHAPTER 3 To Respect or Protect? Whose Values Shape the Ethics of Refugee Research? -- CHAPTER 4 Researching Displacement(s) -- CHAPTER 5 The Ethical Implications of the Researcher's Dominant Position in Cross-Cultural Refugee Research

This edited collection is intended as a primer for core concepts and principles in research ethics and as an in-depth exploration of the contextualization of these principles in practice across key disciplines. The material is nested so that readers can engage with it at different levels and depths. 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. Overview of Research Ethics Principles Full text papers from experienced researchers across many disciplines Dialogue with ethicists.