Timeline for What is the actual process by which academic ethics change?
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| S Mar 18, 2019 at 18:18 | history | suggested | Robert Columbia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 18, 2019 at 18:15 | history | edited | Scott Seidman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 18, 2019 at 18:14 | comment | added | Scott Seidman | Another one that springs to mind is a population of neurosurgeons that now require sham surgeries before adopting a new procedure. This fell out of human fetal tissue transplant attempts. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1733639 There is no relevant reg, but I'm sure this is now incorporated into RSRB discussion. | |
| Mar 18, 2019 at 18:09 | history | edited | Scott Seidman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 18, 2019 at 18:08 | comment | added | Scott Seidman | @RobertColumbia -- that would require some real research, but off the top of my head, some of the bigger ethical failures were well-recognized as ethical failures at the time, but codifying them as regs was not always easy. Nazi human studies, Tuskegee, Milgram,.... | |
| Mar 18, 2019 at 17:56 | comment | added | Robert Columbia | Can you give an example of the opposite process, where changes in ethical rules existed informally for some time (but represented "real" norms with real enforcement, even if only through social pressure) and were only later codified as official rules that could easily be looked up by anyone? E.g. "In the late 1990's, there was a wide-scale movement that wearing blue hats was unethical. Although this rule was never codified in any formal Code of Ethics or similar document until 2015, there is ample evidence that blue-hat-wearers frequently got their tires slashed and rarely received tenure." | |
| Mar 18, 2019 at 17:43 | history | answered | Scott Seidman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |