SOC221H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Eastern New Mexico University, Scientific Misconduct, Psychological Abuse
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The unethical researcher, if caught, faces public humiliation, a ruined career, and possible legal action. Unethical but legal: a plagiarism case illustrates the distinction between legal and ethical behaviors. In 1988 a book by a dean from eastern new mexico university contained large sections of a dissertation from a sociology professor at tufts uni. Copying the dissertation was not a legal; it did not violate copyright law because there was no copyright filed with the us government. Nevertheless, it was clearly unethical or according to standards of professional behavior. Origins of research participant protection: concern over the treatment of research participants of rose after do revelation of gross violations of basic human rights in the name of science. The most notorious violations for medical experiments conducted on. People were placed in freezing water to see how long it took them to die, purposely starved to death, infected with horrible diseases, and limbs severed from children and transplanted onto others.
