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Topic: Ethics

"The Vanishing Physician-Scientist?" - book cover
Ethics, International issues, Research and innovation

Are physician-scientists a vanishing breed?

Ross Upshur

Their research builds on the lived experience of patients and the ethical issues created by patient care in a complex, highly technological medical system. What is needed to save them? Andrew. L. Shafer, Vanishing Physician-Scientist? (Cornell University Press, 2009)

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Ethics, Intellectual property, Students

Blame Facebook

Kathy Cawsey

By October of my first year of teaching, I’d had five plagiarism cases. Three more surfaced by Christmas, and a couple more […]

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