What ethical challenges arise when the media uses images of the dead?
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May2022 Title 6: The Media, images of death & #MyLastShot: How can the boundaries of acceptable photographic investigations allow artists to balance the 'need to see' with the need to 'start conversations'?
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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May2022 Title 6: Brain organoids, consciousness & sentience: working out new boundaries for acceptable investigation into lab-grown, disembodied brains...
We are a group of archaeologists, anthropologists, curators and geneticists representing diverse global communities and 31 countries. All of us met in a virtual workshop dedicated to ethics in ancient DNA research held in November 2020. There was widespread agreement that globally applicable ethical guidelines are needed...
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May2022 Title 6: Genetic data, indigenous perspectives & scientific progress: Proposing 5 guidelines to help determine the boundaries for acceptable ethical DNA investigations into human remains...
More cases coming soon! Case studies produced by the Media Ethics Initiative remain the intellectual property of the Media Ethics Initiative and the University of Texas at Austin. They can be used in unmodified PDF form without permission for classroom use. For use in publications such as textbooks and other works, please contact the Media…
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May2022 Title 6: Various articles exploring case studies connected to the Arts, ethically acceptable (or unacceptable) artistic investigations & the boundaries of the creative imagination...
By Dom Birch The writing of history, we are told, is a political occupation—all historians have a political lens through which they work, or view the past. This viewpoint has led to historians convincing themselves that their work can almost always be justified in political terms. Justifying history as politics is doomed from the start: academic…
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May2022 Title 6: Source treatment, respect & empathy: how to transition from writing history as politics to a more ethically acceptable form of historical investigation.
Bizarre Art! Shocking Art! Grotesque Art! Disturbing Art! Art comes in many shapes and forms, but these are some of the most disturbing art pieces ever made.
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May2022 Title 6: The grotesque, body horror & the aesthetics of shock: TWE are artists justified in crossing socially accepted boundaries to make art that satisfies 'the public's need to be challenged'? (Some explicit and disturbing images in article...)
I first confronted the issue of the morality of using information obtained from heinous experiments when I was teaching medical ethics at the University of Minnesota...
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May2022 Title 6: National security, war & other justifications for applying knowledge: ensuring that acceptable investigations prevents 'tainted information' from infecting 'the body of scientific and biomedical knowledge'...
From climate to COVID, naivety about how science is hijacked promotes more of the same.
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May2022 Title 6: Sciencyness, agnatology & the 'doubt machine': building up a resistance to uncertainty within the boundaries of acceptable scientific investigation...
Brooklyn-based award-winning journalist and author Lauren Sandler has spent her career considering the ethical implications of human-interest reporting and how to navigate this often tricky corner of the journalism world. …
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May2022 Titles 4 & 6: 'Immersion reporting', perspective shifting & moral imperatives: justifying how one's privileged status ethically obliges us to tell stories about people who are more underprivileged.
During the 19th Century, a strange new pseudoscientific technique became hugely popular.
Based on the theory that the brain was comprised of 'organs' that operated different parts of the mind, phrenologists claimed they could 'read' an individual's personality and intelligence by merely feeling these organs via the normal lumps and bumps on the head.
Scripted & narrated by Claudia Hammond Video by Dominika Ozynska & Adrian Hartrick
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May2022 Title 6: Phrenology & the art of palpating the skull: How a pseudoscientific investigation into the brain turned out to yield some important insights into its functions...
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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May2022 Title 6: Infodemic, social media & cybersecurity: what happens when there's no independent regulation of how boundaries are set on an acceptable investigations to acquire knowledge about the use of personal information...
From Nazi medicine to GM babies, unethical research has a deeply problematic history. But what should we do when the results of these studies could offer useful scientific insight?
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May2022 Title 6: Pernkopf's 'Anatomy', HeLa cells & Tuskagee: defining the boundaries of acceptable medical investigation is made harder when definitions of 'ethical' & 'unethical' constantly shift...
Whether you’re a teacher, researcher or educator, our Mathematical Salad selection has something for you, in six delicious categories.
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May2022 Title 6: Math problem-solving, Realist Mathematics Education & ethical care: acknowledging the boundaries of acceptable math practice by being open to knowledge from other non-math sources...
Brendan P. Foht on politically correcting science and scientifically correcting politics
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May2022 Titles 6: The 'Galilean personality', critical attitude & academic freedoms: how taking an activist stance can help map out the boundaries for acceptable scientific investigations & a just system of doing science...
From once being hailed as a visionary, to being found guilty of fraud, the Guardian looks back at how Elizabeth Holmes' rhetoric changed as her company sank
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May2022 Titles 3 & 6: Theranos, scientific fraud & ethical boundaries: When experts breach ethical boundaries, TWE does this hinder the overall reputation of natural scientific knowledge?
You don’t have to be a physician or anatomist to be curious about how bodies work. Exhibits of dead human specimens have been around for quite a while – capitalizing on our fascination with death.
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May2022 Title 6: The scientization of the dead, health education & humans as 'specimens': being sensitive to historical and cultural context is part of how we determine boundaries for acceptable scientific & artistic investigations...
The ethical argument in favor of using placebos in medical practice is strengthened by studies that show the beneficial effects of placebos. Pollo and colleagues (2001) reported a reduction of narcotic intake for postoperative pain of approximately 30 percent obtained by the administration of a saline solution that was deceptively labeled as a painkiller.
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May2022 Title 6: Placebo ethics, pain relief & the 'open label' paradigm: towards a determination of the boundaries for acceptable medical investigations using placebo therapies...
We can’t edit tweets, but we can edit our own DNA.
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May2022 Titles 3 & 6: CRISPR tech, gene supermarkets & the scientific method: how to walk the along the edge of the ethical line which separates acceptable from unacceptable ethical scientific investigations.
By Dr. Maurice Chiodo, Fellow and Teaching Officer at King’s College, Cambridge. Lead investigator of the Cambridge University Ethics in Mathematics Project. @mauricechiodo Mathematics is never done in complete isolation, and mathematicians need to consider the way in which their work impacts
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May2022 Title 6: Math purists, large data sets & the oil pipe problem: TWE are ethical boundaries inapplicable when experts are called on to 'do the math'?
Even after Brazil’s “Covid kit” of alternative treatments was shown to be ineffective, doctors were given sales targets to keep prescribing – with official guidance on how t…
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May2022 Title 6: Covid miracle cures, bad science & bad government: exposing unacceptable investigations of 'medical experimentation in humans without ethical clearance, any regard for human rights or, even, for the reliability of the data produced.'
Using urinals, psychological collages, and animated furniture to shock us into reality.
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May2022 Q6: Dada & the art of nihilism: how artists sometimes cross ethical boundaries & engage in what appear to be unacceptable investigations...in order challenge the very nature of our morals...
Starting in 1932, 600 African American men from Macon County, Alabama were enlisted to partake in a scientific experiment on syphilis.
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May2022 Title 6: Scientific racism, Tuskagee study & the future of medical research: applying principle of 'informed consent' can help determine ethical boundaries for acceptable scientific investigation.
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