The Price of Truth: How Money Affects the Norms of Science

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David B. Resnik (Bioethicist, Bioethicist, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

The Price of Truth

How Money Affects the Norms of Science

David B. Resnik (Bioethicist, Bioethicist, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

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Oxford University Press Inc
01 December 2006

Business ethics; Science funding & policy

Series: Practical and Professional Ethics

Modern science is big business. Governments, universities, and corporations have invested billions of dollars in scientific and technological research in the hope of obtaining power and profit. For the most part, this investment has benefited science and society, leading to new discoveries, inventions, disciplines, specialties, jobs, and career opportunities. However, there is a dark side to the influx of money into science. Unbridled pursuit of financial gain in science can undermine scientific norms, such as objectivity, honesty, openness, respect for research participants, and social responsibility.

In The Price of Truth, David B. Resnik examines some of the important and difficult questions resulting from the financial and economic aspects of modern science. How does money affect scientific research? Have scientists become entrepreneurs bent on making money instead of investigators searching for the truth? How does the commercialization of research affect the public's perception of science? Can scientists prevent money from corrupting the research enterprise? What types of rules, polices, and guidelines should scientists adopt to prevent financial interests from adversely affecting research and the public's opinion of science?

By: David B. Resnik (Bioethicist Bioethicist National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 396g
ISBN: 9780195309782
ISBN 10: 0195309782
Series: Practical and Professional Ethics
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 December 2006
Audience: Adult education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David B. Resnik, JD, PhD, is a bioethicist and vice-chair of the Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects Research at the National Institute for Environmental Health Science, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Resnik has published over 100 articles and six books on bioethics, research ethics, and philosophy of science and medicine. He is associate editor of Accountability in Research.

Reviews for The Price of Truth: How Money Affects the Norms of Science

This book makes a timely contribution to ongoing discussions of the role of science in providing reliable information for important socio-political-economic global decisions that affect humankind's situation in the natural world. --Choice This book makes a timely contribution to ongoing discussions of the role of science in providing reliable information for important socio-political economic global decisions that affect humankind's situation in the natural world.... Recommended. --J.Gough, CHOICE