Cautionary Tales: Ethics and Case Studies in Science

Ethical concerns are normally avoided in science classrooms in spite of the fact that many of our discoveries impinge directly on personal and societal values. We should not leave the ethical problems for another day, but deal with them using realistic case studies that challenge students at their e...

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Autor principal: Herreid, Clyde Freeman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society of Microbiology 2014
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Ethics in the Classroom
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4278479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25574280
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v15i2.761
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description Ethical concerns are normally avoided in science classrooms in spite of the fact that many of our discoveries impinge directly on personal and societal values. We should not leave the ethical problems for another day, but deal with them using realistic case studies that challenge students at their ethical core. In this article we illustrate how case studies can be used to teach STEM students principles of ethics.
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spelling pubmed-42784792015-01-08 Cautionary Tales: Ethics and Case Studies in Science Herreid, Clyde Freeman J Microbiol Biol Educ Ethics in the Classroom Ethical concerns are normally avoided in science classrooms in spite of the fact that many of our discoveries impinge directly on personal and societal values. We should not leave the ethical problems for another day, but deal with them using realistic case studies that challenge students at their ethical core. In this article we illustrate how case studies can be used to teach STEM students principles of ethics. American Society of Microbiology 2014-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4278479/ /pubmed/25574280 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v15i2.761 Text en ©2014 Author(s). Published by the American Society for Microbiology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ and https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode), which grants the public the nonexclusive right to copy, distribute, or display the published work.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4278479/
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