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Dangerous And Unprofessional Content: Anarchist Dreams For Alternate Nursing Futures, Jess Dillard-Wright, Danisha Jenkins
Dangerous And Unprofessional Content: Anarchist Dreams For Alternate Nursing Futures, Jess Dillard-Wright, Danisha Jenkins
Elaine Marieb College of Nursing Faculty Publication Series
Professionalized nursing and anarchism could not be more at odds. And yet, if nursing wishes to have a future in the precarious times in which we live and die, the discipline must take on the lessons that anarchism has on offer. Part love note to a problematic profession we love and hate, part fever dream of what could be, we set out to think about what nursing and care might look like after it all falls down, because it is all falling down. Drawing on alternate histories, alternate visions of nursing history, we imagine what nursing values would look like, …
Challenges In Vaccine Communication, Devon Greyson
Challenges In Vaccine Communication, Devon Greyson
Communication Department Faculty Publication Series
Vaccine communication is a scientifically complex, ethically laden, and highly multidisciplinary area in which to conduct research or practice. Due to vaccination’s status as a key topic in public health and medicine, communication about vaccination serves as fertile ground for social scientific and critical research that can both improve health and help us understand health-related values, mental-models, and discourses. This chapter presents background necessary to understand vaccine communication as a topic of study, provides an overview of contemporary communication research about vaccines and vaccination, and describes frameworks for addressing ethical considerations particular to vaccine communication.
The Communicative Ethics Of Racial Identity In Dialogue, Leda M. Cooks
The Communicative Ethics Of Racial Identity In Dialogue, Leda M. Cooks
Communication Department Faculty Publication Series
This article explores the role of narratives about racial identity in constituting ethical performances in dialogue. Specifically, a dialogic communication ethics is described and placed in the context of intergroup dialogue (IGD) and communication approaches to dialogue. Then the focus turns to how these ethical frames and models for conducting dialogue functioned in a large-scale campus dialogue on race and whiteness. The article addresses the ways identities were constructed and deployed in the dialogues by examining how dialogue topics are framed and discussed by facilitators and participants. This discussion of intention and outcome raises theoretical and practical questions in order …
Ethics, Effectiveness And Population Health Information Interventions: A Canadian Analysis, Devon Greyson, Rod Knight, Jean A. Shoveller
Ethics, Effectiveness And Population Health Information Interventions: A Canadian Analysis, Devon Greyson, Rod Knight, Jean A. Shoveller
Communication Department Faculty Publication Series
Population health information interventions (PHIIs) use information in efforts to promote health. PHIIs may push information to a target audience (communication), pull information from the public (surveillance), or combine both in a bidirectional intervention. Although PHIIs have often been framed as non-invasive and ethically innocuous, in reality they may be intrusive into people’s lives, affecting not only their health but their senses of security, respect, and self-determination. Ethical acceptability of PHIIs may have impacts on intervention effectiveness, potentially giving rise to unintended consequences. This article examines push, pull, and bidirectional PHIIs using empirical data from an ethnographic study of young …
Syllabus: Introduction To Permaculture, Lisa Depiano
Syllabus: Introduction To Permaculture, Lisa Depiano
Sustainability Education Resources
The Permaculture Design Course is a three-credit course that offers students a foundation in permaculture history, ethics, principles, design process, and practical applications. The framework behind the theory and practice of permaculture is rooted in the observation of natural systems. By observing key ecological relationships, we can mimic and apply these beneficial relationships in the design of systems that serve humans while helping to restore the natural world. This course trains students as critical thinkers, observers, and analysts of the world(s) around them, and then goes on to provide students with the tools needed to design for inspired and positive …
Case Study: Reporting Incidence Of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), M.J. Peterson, Paul A. White
Case Study: Reporting Incidence Of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), M.J. Peterson, Paul A. White
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
The SARS case is an in-depth study of the 2002-2003 global outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). It focuses specifically on how information about the disease was shared among countries.
Case Study: Narmada Dams Controversy, M.J. Peterson, Osman Kiratli, Ilke Ercan
Case Study: Narmada Dams Controversy, M.J. Peterson, Osman Kiratli, Ilke Ercan
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
This case study looks at one of the more famous instances of transnational involvement in stakeholder struggles over large dams: the long-running contention over dam construction on the Narmada Rover in India. Though proposals to build large dams on the Narmada inspired political controversy from the day the first proposals were made in 1947-48, only in the mid-1980s did the controversy take on the transnational aspects for which it is now famous as critics took up the cause of those who would be displaced as the reservoirs created by the dams filled up and raised environmental concerns about the project.
An Introduction To Principles Of Ethics And Morality For Scientists And Engineers, Tom Murray
An Introduction To Principles Of Ethics And Morality For Scientists And Engineers, Tom Murray
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
Preface: This document is part of an NSF-funded project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst that is developing on-line case-based ethics curriculum for science and engineering disciplines. The on-line materials include a set of cases based on real events with international ethical dimensions , including the incidents leading up to the Bhopal chemical plant disaster, the reporting incidence of the SARS epidemic, and international regulation of genetically modified foods. Each case module has a description and supplementary resources including reference material; a set of interviews with fictitious stakeholders; and an on-line discussion forum structured to promote particular types of discussion, …
Case Study: The Eu-Us Dispute Over Regulation Of Genetically Modified Organisms, Plants, Feeds, And Foods, M.J. Peterson, Paul A. White
Case Study: The Eu-Us Dispute Over Regulation Of Genetically Modified Organisms, Plants, Feeds, And Foods, M.J. Peterson, Paul A. White
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
The EU-US Dispute over Regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms, Plants, Feeds, and Foods case is a study of the divergence of regulatory standards for genetically modified plants, feeds, and food in the US and in European countries. It focuses on the European Union’s moratorium of approval of new genetically modified organisms and the World Trade Organization’s consequent ruling.
Case Study: Access To Hiv Treatments In Developing Countries, M.J. Peterson
Case Study: Access To Hiv Treatments In Developing Countries, M.J. Peterson
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
This case explores the challenges faced by developing countries, where HIV is widely prevalent, in providing their citizens access to HIV medications. Supplying consistent treatments of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) medications continue to be an obstacle due to its high costs in relation to individual income and government health budgets, and the strict patent laws governing them when attempting to domestically produce generics at a much lower price. Other barriers such as lack of medical facilities, outlay of tests and availability of clinics, coupled with the social stigma of HIV and AIDS, prevent persons infected to seek treatment.
Case Study: Transboundary Trade In Hazardous Substances And Wastes, M.J. Peterson
Case Study: Transboundary Trade In Hazardous Substances And Wastes, M.J. Peterson
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
This case study provides an overview of environmental and health issues regarding the transboundary trade of hazardous substances such as various chemical waste, including pesticides, which can affect human condition and the environment, especially in developing countries. Primary discussions have risen to address these concerns, and to design regulations for the proper use and legal trade of these substances. The study also provides an in-depth analysis on the various approaches in a national and international level, to control the impact of these regulations worldwide.
Case Study: Asilomar Conference On Laboratory Precautions When Conducting Recombinant Dna Research, M.J. Peterson
Case Study: Asilomar Conference On Laboratory Precautions When Conducting Recombinant Dna Research, M.J. Peterson
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
This case is an in-depth summary on an extensively controversial conference held at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove California, in 1973, where approximately 100 leading scientists in the field convened to formulate safety measures to direct the development of recombinant DNA technology in the United States. It resulted in subsequent discussions, including the conception of a proposed regulated guidelines and risk categories for rDNA experiments. These procedures were adopted and widely used by the US Government today. Appendices include: A.) Chronology; B.) Views on the Asilomar Process; C.) Members of Groups Central to the Scientists’ Debates about rDNA …
Ethics In Science & Engineering: Redefining Tools & Resources, Michelle S. Goncalves, Jane E. Fountain, Jessica Adamick, Marilyn Billings
Ethics In Science & Engineering: Redefining Tools & Resources, Michelle S. Goncalves, Jane E. Fountain, Jessica Adamick, Marilyn Billings
Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse
This report summarizes the main points of discussion of a national workshop convened to advance knowledge and practice for ethics in science and engineering. Following the enactment of the America COMPETES Act and its provisions to increase attention to ethics and the responsible conduct of research in science and engineering, the National Science Foundation (NSF) supported two beta site projects to advance understanding of the key dimensions required for a national online clearinghouse in ethics for science and engineering. The ESENCe Beta Site project, based at UMass Amherst and one of two such beta sites in the United States, thanks …
Case Study: Recruitment Of Egg Donors By South Korean Stem Cell Researchers, Mj Peterson, Osman Kiratli, Ilke Ercan
Case Study: Recruitment Of Egg Donors By South Korean Stem Cell Researchers, Mj Peterson, Osman Kiratli, Ilke Ercan
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
This case study examines the controversy surrounding Dr. Hwang Woo-suk's recruitment of egg donors for his team's stem cell research from 2002 through 2005. It explores the international dimensions of ethical standards, the political decentralization of global regulation, and the internationalization of science.
Module 2.4: Social Inclusion & Equity, M.J. Peterson
Module 2.4: Social Inclusion & Equity, M.J. Peterson
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
Transnational scientific and engineering activity has effects on social equity. This module will examine international-level mechanisms for raising social equity concerns including global multilateral organizations, regional multilateral organizations, transnational policy advocacy, transnational social mobilizations, and elite interchange.
Module 2.3b: Stakeholder Inclusion, M.J. Peterson
Module 2.3b: Stakeholder Inclusion, M.J. Peterson
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
The social context of science and engineering includes many actors. This module will define and identify stakeholders in various contexts and explain a model of social mobilization.
Module 2.1: Variation In International Regulatory Processes, M.J. Peterson
Module 2.1: Variation In International Regulatory Processes, M.J. Peterson
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
The essence of international ethics is that variation exists among regulatory processes. This module will examine variation in multilateral intergovernmental organizations such as United Nations Conferences, United Nations specialized agencies, regional conferences or commissions, and other international bodies including private industry standards-setting bodies.
Module 2.2: Responsible Participation By Scientists And Engineers In International Political Processes, M.J. Peterson
Module 2.2: Responsible Participation By Scientists And Engineers In International Political Processes, M.J. Peterson
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
Scientists and engineers participate in international regulatory processes in a variety of ways. This module seeks to better define participation, particularly responsible participation, by delineating several categories of participation: epistemic communities, professional associations, scientists as citizen-advocates, scientists as employees of private organizations, and scientists as government officials. It will also examine the various channels of influence open to each type of participation.
Diagrams: Networks And Organizations, M.J. Peterson
Diagrams: Networks And Organizations, M.J. Peterson
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
Diagrams representing typical bureaucratic organizations, networks, and communication hubs.
International Forums For Addressing Social Inclusion And Social Equity Issues, M.J. Peterson
International Forums For Addressing Social Inclusion And Social Equity Issues, M.J. Peterson
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
Global intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations (UN), World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO), have been some of the primary forums for discussion of social inclusion at the global level since 1945. There are regional intergovernmental organizations however, such as the European Union (EU), African Union (AU), and other elite forums that also address social issues depending on what the governments of member states wish to discuss.
Cultural Competence In A Transnational Workplace, M.J. Peterson
Cultural Competence In A Transnational Workplace, M.J. Peterson
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
Many considerations, sensitivities, and cross-cultural awareness contribute to creating a successful transnational workplace. Developing the ability to negotiate with individuals of other cultures requires an understanding of which methods are acceptable or unacceptable to a particular culture.
Efforts To Control Information Flows, M.J. Peterson, Ilke Ercan
Efforts To Control Information Flows, M.J. Peterson, Ilke Ercan
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
Since the mid-20th century, the importance of intellectual property rights have become a major avenue for governments, corporations, and other groups to control and limit the diffusion of scientific and technical information. Some of these limits are efforts to regulate who has what information through general censorship.
Hints On Cross Cultural Skills, M.J. Peterson
Hints On Cross Cultural Skills, M.J. Peterson
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
This document outlines suggestions on dealing with cultural differences among collaborators drawn from business literature. Different authors present different schemes, but there is broad consensus on three elements of effective cross-cultural interaction.
The Concepts Of Social Inclusion And Social Equity, M.J. Peterson
The Concepts Of Social Inclusion And Social Equity, M.J. Peterson
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
The rapid growth in transnational professional activity has encouraged Intergovernmental Organizations (IGO), and other international professional associations to develop cross-national regulations and standards to promote worldwide policy coordination and standardization.
Responsible Participation By Scientists And Engineers In International Political Process, M.J. Peterson
Responsible Participation By Scientists And Engineers In International Political Process, M.J. Peterson
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
Conditions of globalization and increasing prominence of scientific and technical matters in everyday life has created a need for scientists and engineers to participate in national and international debates about solving problems, applying technologies to particular purposes, and avoiding or minimizing serious harm. Policy-makers and others concerned with particular issues seek various types of expert advice depending on how well the issue is understood, and how urgent addressing it appears to be.
Stakeholders, M.J. Peterson, Ilke Ercan
Stakeholders, M.J. Peterson, Ilke Ercan
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
Two distinct concepts of "stakeholder" have developed in recent decades. The first existing in politics to describe anyone affected by a decision occurring within the domains of a ruling government, and the second being used in business management manuals, where it applies to the relationship between a business firm and an individual or group, interested in the firm's success.
Case Study: Bhopal Plant Disaster, M.J. Peterson
Case Study: Bhopal Plant Disaster, M.J. Peterson
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
The Bhopal case is an in-depth study of the industrial accident at the Union Carbide factory in India that immediately killed 2,000 people, injured another 200,000 to 300,000 more, and immediately raised questions about plant safety and corporate responsibility around the world. Includes seven detailed appendices: A.) Chronology, B.) Stakeholders and Level of Responsibility, C.) Economic/industrial climate of India, D.) Union Carbide Corporation, E.) Issues in Chemical Processing, F.) Assessing Responsibility: The Legal/Regulatory System, G.) Assessing Responsibility: The Engineers and Scientists, and H.) Technical Expertise and Managerial Responsibility.
Transnational Differences In Ethical And Regulatory Standards, M.J. Peterson
Transnational Differences In Ethical And Regulatory Standards, M.J. Peterson
International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
This manuscript identifies key ways in which regulatory responses can differ across national boundaries. Some of these differences stem from variations in the perceived acceptability of an activity in different cultures. Others stem from different approaches to the common problem of identifying and regulating hazardous activity. Yet, others stem from differences in reaction to scientific or technological breakthroughs.
Faculty Retreat In Research Ethics--Modules And Issues, William Frey
Faculty Retreat In Research Ethics--Modules And Issues, William Frey
Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse
This module is a derived copy of a module that supports faculty development workshops. It is developed in conjunction with the EAC (ethics across the curriculum) Toolkit. Faculty development workshops bring instructors and researchers together into interdisciplinary teams to tackle the important task of providing students in the occupational and professional areas with ethics education. These workshops allow faculty the time and opportunity to develop resources and materials that support EAC educational efforts. But capturing the experience and knowledge generated can prove challenging. Post workshop enthusiasm and commitment wear off wear off as time passes. This module sustains the developing …
Ethical Issues In Graduate Research, William Frey, Jose A. Cruz-Cruz
Ethical Issues In Graduate Research, William Frey, Jose A. Cruz-Cruz
Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse
This module presents the ethical issues and concepts associated with research in graduate school. Its content and exercises focus on business research, that is, research carried out in business organizations and research carried out in graduate programs in business schools. You begin with three cases: Tuskegee, Enron, and Baltimore. The first establishes the need for research ethics. The second introduces complexities that market-driven activities bring to research. The Baltimore case poses the question, not of whether market forces distort and deflect scientific research, but of whether government and legal forces conspire to distort and deflect the exercise of scientific research …