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SESSION DESCRIPTION: Scientific discoveries sometimes lead to applications that can have profoundly beneficial or disruptive effects on society and the evolution of social norms. The fact that we operate within a functional society where some degree of cooperation exists, suggests that most of us accept certain organization values/principles about relationships between individuals and between individuals, institutions, and authority. These values/principles are typically captured by inexact terms such as freedom, equality, autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence. Of course, that we may abstractly agree on the list of fundamental ideals does not mean that we will agree on their relative priority in context. We recognize that, within this kind of conversation, there may be a wide range of reasonable, informed opinion. Our modest goal is to identify 1) some of the underlying values that animate such reasonable, informed opinion, and 2) some justifications that can be offered for prioritizing some values over others.
Facilitator: Willy Lensch, PhD, Associate Provost for Research, Harvard University
COURSE DESCRIPTON: The RCR course is designed to run as a graduate-style seminar. Each session will be co-facilitated by the course director, research faculty, and administrative deans. This course is meant to provide an opportunity to openly and critically reflect with your peers and others about what responsibility and integrity should mean to the professional scientific community. To that end, you will be expected to have done the readings prior to class and you will be expected to participate in discussion.
Sponsored by the HMS Center for Bioethics and Office for Postdoctoral Fellows
Course Directors: Sadath A. Sayeed JD, MD and James Gould, PhD
