Ethics for and About Biologists

Join the Paul V. Galvin Library and the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions as we discuss the ethical issues that are peculiar to medicine and biology. Andrew Howard, associate professor of biology and physics at Illinois Tech, will lead the discussion. This event can be attended both in-person and online and will take place on Friday, October 11, 2024, from 12:30–1:45 p.m. in the Galvin Library’s Library Learning Center. Registration is required.

All researchers encounter ethical issues in their professional lives, but those of us engaged in life-science research have a particular set of ethical challenges because we deal with people and the environment. Fraud and plagiarism, which can occur in any research setting, are particularly prevalent in biological and biomedical settings. Of the top 20 names on Retraction Watch’s leaderboard for retracted papers, 14 are in medicine or biochemistry.

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