Ethical studies, ethical publication

Re: Ethical studies, ethical publication.

I was pleased to see that Occupational Medicine thought it appropriate to publish an editorial on ethical publication [1]. It is important that the ethics of research and publication remain in the consciousness of occupational physicians. This is particularly so where they are actively involved in occupational medicine research and therefore the ethical treatment of workers who participate in s...

Standards for ethical publication.

In a previous editorial the editors of The Journal of Laryngology and Otology presented the Journal’s position with regard to ethical standards in medical publication. One of the developments recently introduced is a joint commitment by editors of journals of Otolaryngology to act in a coordinated manner in order to share information when a suspected breach of publishing integrity has occurred....

Ethical guidelines to publication of chemical research.

The American Chemical Society serves the chemistry profession and society at large in many ways, among them by publishing journals which present the results of scientific and engineering research. Every editor of a Society journal has the responsibility to establish and maintain guidelines for selecting and accepting papers submitted to that journal. In the main, these guidelines derive from th...

Changing ethical standards in scientific publication.

Ethical considerations in animal studies

Scientists undoubtedly owe their great advance and knowledge in biomedical research to millions of animals which they use every year in often-times extremely painful and distressing scientific procedures. One of the important issues in scientific research is to consider ethics in animal experimentation. Since this is a crucial issue in the modern era of medical research, in this paper, we have ...