Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR): Scientific Citizenship (4.22.26)

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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. 

Audience: Postdoctoral trainees working within Quad-based HMS Faculty laboratories

Each session will be co-facilitated by the course directors, research faculty, and/or administrative leaders.

Please contact rcr@hms.harvard.edu with any questions.

Sponsored by the HMS Center for Bioethics and Office for Postdoctoral Fellows

• Program Directors: Joni R. Beshansky, MPH, LP.D. and James Gould, PhD
• Program Coordinator: Sam Pitkin