The Scientific Self: Reclaiming Its Place in the History of Research Ethics.
How can the history of research ethics be expanded beyond the standard narrative of codification—a story that does not reach back beyond World War II—without becoming so broad as to lose all distinctiveness? This article proposes a history of research ethics focused on the “scientific self,” that is...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 24; no. 5; pp. 1379 - 1393 |
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