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At the end of the Course the participants are expected a) to be fully aware on how scientific and technological research have ethical implications; b) to identify ethical issues in specific research cases and procedures; c) to understand how the adherence to ethics standards is essential not only for respecting ethical values and fundamental rights, but also to increase quality and likely impact of research.
Course introduction – A. Aliverti
Locating ethics in research – J. Hughes
• The nature and value of research
• Research scandals and the need for ethical scrutiny
• Case study
• Principles of research ethics
• The role of the research ethics committee
Consent in research – J. Hughes
• The role of consent in research
• Voluntariness, information and competence as elements of valid consent
• Non-consensual research
• Case studies
Balancing harms and benefits in research – J. Hughes
• Type of benefit and types of harm
• Harm to whom?
• Randomised controlled trials and equipoise
• Case study
Information and Design Ethics -V. Schiaffonati
• Responsabilites in engineering and design
• Management of sensitive data/information
• personal and private information, confidential scientific/industrial information
• sensitive information in the digital world
• case studies
Ethical Institutions: research ethics Committees/Institutional Review Boards and the Ethic Committee of Polimi - C. Ghezzi
3R’s Principles- G.B. Fiore
Case study: how to submit a proposal to a Research Ethics Committee
Publication ethics: ‘good practice’ in scientific communication - A. Aliverti
Case studies: publication ethics
Final discussion
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