Science and Ethics / La Science et l'Éthique / / Patricia Demers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Demers, Patricia,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The papers from the 2000 symposium of the Royal Society of Canada explore the crucial relationship between science and ethics. In the six papers, presented by scholars and practitioners in fields as varied as psychiatry, law, philosophy, and ethics, the contributors address the central place of ethics in scientific policy, research, and practice. Historic decisions like the place of the 1947 Nuremberg Code, adopted by the International War Crimes Tribunal to establish the foundational ethical principals of research involving human subjects; contemporary policy concerning, and institutional responsibility for, the protection of human subjects; science, technology, and copyright laws in Canada; xenotransplantation (the process of grafting living cells, tissues, and organs from animals to human beings);the privatization of biomedical research; and the relationship between ethics, policies, and research experts: these are the topics under discussion in this timely collection of papers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents / Matières -- Introduction / Alper, Howard -- Can Science or Ethics Compromise Each Other in Human Subject Research? / Dickens, Bernard M. -- La privatisation de la recherche biomédicale au Canada : enjeux éthiques / Parizeau, Marie-Hélène -- The Governance of Health Care Research Involving Human Subjects: Reflections on Ethical Policy for Science Research / McDonald, Michael -- Old Copyright Law and New Technologies: Canadian Copyright Reform in the Digital Age / Geist, Michael -- La xénotransplantation : tour de force ou tour de cochon? / Leroux, Thérèse -- British Beef, Ontario Water and Dead Crows / Clements, Colleen -- Notes on Contributors / Notices biographiques des conférenciers