Whistleblowing

Authors: McKnight, Diane M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This article looks at the sets of shared standards professional scientific societies have developed, and how scientists who become "whistleblowers" when they make scientific misconduct public are upholding these shared principles....
Year: 1998

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Authors: Bok, Sissela ; Callahan, Daniel
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: The Hastings Center series in ethics
Abstract: This volume, produced from a systematic study undertaken by the Hastings Center on the state of the teaching of ethics in higher education, outlines some of the main goals of ethics education, and gives some advice on how to go abou...
Year: 1980

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Authors: Krimsky, Sheldon
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: A commentary discussing two case studies illustrating the complexities of the protection offered to whistleblowers in science that appear in the same volume of Science and Engineering Ethics, entitled "On the hazards of whistleblowe...
Year: 1995
DOI: 10.1007/BF02583250

Authors: Higgins-D'Alessandro, Ann
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: A response to Joan Sieber's article "The Psychology of Whistleblowing."...
Year: 1998
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-998-0003-4

Authors: Faunce, T
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Monash Bioethics Review
Abstract: Though whistleblowing in healthcare has brought benefits to the healthcare systems of many countries, the practice is frowned upon by many influential healthcare professionals and regulatory institutions. Almost no medical schools...
Year: 2004
URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1408402

Authors: Gunsalus, C. K.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Filing charges of scientific misconduct can be a risky and dangerous endeavor. This article presents 'rules of conduct' to follow when considering whether to report perceived misconduct, and a 'set of step-by-step procedures' for re...
Year: 1998
URL: http://poynter.indiana.edu/see-ckg1.pdf

Authors: Gunsalus, C. K.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: A thoughtful and well-designed institutional response to a whistle-blower starts long before a problem ever arises. Important elements include efforts by the institution's leaders to cultivate an ethical environment, provide clear a...
Year: 1998
URL: http://poynter.indiana.edu/see-ckg2.pdf

Authors: Frankel, Mark S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Discusses the retaliation that whistleblowers sometimes experience and the need for professional and scientific societies to support whistleblowers. Response to article 'Scientific Societies and Whistleblowers: the Relationship bet...
Year: 1998
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-998-0014-1

Authors: Edsall, John T.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This article discusses some whistleblowing cases that occurred from 1960-1990, and highlights some of the difficulties and dangers they have faced, even though their actions have often been indispensable for the maintenance of hones...
Year: 1995
DOI: 10.1007/BF02583249

Authors: Broome, Taft H.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This paper is a commentary on Sprague's paper 'The Voice of Experience'. Speaking in the first person, Sprague gives an account of a whistle-blowing event and related family experiences. Said to lie beyond the understanding of inexp...
Year: 1998
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-998-0006-1

Authors: Sprague, Robert L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The author tells the story of a whistleblowing from the perspective of a whistleblower in science. He describes the often traumatic experiences of a whistleblower after he or she has made misconduct known to the scientific communit...
Year: 1998
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-998-0005-2

Authors: Boisjoly, Roger M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Discussion of some myths and an outline of some consequences experienced by whistle-blowers based on the experience of the government accountability project (GAP) and the writer. A dialog follows explaining some techniques to use an...
Year: 1998
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-998-0009-y

Authors: Abeles, Norman
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: How the American Psychological Association's ethics code deals with the enforcement of ethical violations through its 'rules and procedures' is discussed. The code provides both general principles and decision rules. The threshold f...
Year: 1998
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-998-0013-2

Authors: Gadlin, Howard
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Commentary from the ombudsman at the University of California, Los Angeles about the challenges of being a whistleblower. The author discusses three major factors of organizational life with which whistleblowing policies are often a...
Year: 1998
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-998-0008-z

Authors: Trilling, Leon
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This brief note on the article "On the Hazards of Whistleblowers and on Some Problems of Young Biomedical Scientists in our Time' comments on the growth in size, scope and visibility of scientific research over the last fifty years,...
Year: 1995
DOI: 10.1007/BF02583251

Authors: United States. Commission on Research Integrity.
Publication Type: Report
Abstract: This major report, put out by the Commission on Research Integrity in 1995 seeks to give a definition of what counts as research misconduct, setting down education standards for responsible conduct of research education, discusses t...
Year: 1995
URL: http://ori.dhhs.gov/documents/report_commission.pdf

Authors: Sieber, Joan E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Whistle-blowing, its antecedents, and its aftermath are complex and varied phenomena. Motivational factors in the perception of alleged misconduct and in the response to such allegations by the accused and the institution are examin...
Year: 1998
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-998-0002-5

Authors: Shore, Eleanor G.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Discusses the problems administrators may face when dealing with a case of whistleblowing, and the need to establish guidelines and policies on how to handle these issues before they arise. ...
Year: 1998
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-998-0011-4

Authors: Devine, Tom
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Chemical Engineering
Abstract: Discusses the precarious position of whistleblowers in regard to their employers and their future careers and outlines some steps potential whistleblowers should take to ensure that they move forward in an intelligent way that prote...
Year: 1991

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Authors: Fanlight Productions ; Films, Atlantis
Publication Type: Audiovisual
Abstract: Looks at the dilemma faced by a young engineer whose loyalties to family, employer, and fellow workers come into conflict with his professional judgement. Examines the problem of whether it is right to just do your job and leave the...
Year: 1985

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Authors: Olivieri, Nancy F.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This paper is a personal account of the a case study dealing with the author's work at the University of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children on a drug, deferiprone. When evidence emerged that deferiprone might be inadequately effec...
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-003-0017-x

Authors: Oliver, Douglas
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education & Practice
Abstract: This paper covers several aspects of whistle-blowing as they relate to practicing engineers. The paper discusses five instances of engineers who have had to seek legal protection as whistleblowers, and analyzes the state of enginee...
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1061/(asce)1052-3928(2003)129:4(246)

Authors: Mark Holtzapple
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This is a set of numerical problems that focuses on the ethical issues presented in the film, Gilbane Gold. As the story unfolds, the engineering the video focuses on becomes a whistleblower when he discovers that the computer chip...
Year: 1995
URL: http://ethics.tamu.edu/Nsfcases/chem/5/chem05.htm

Authors: Fletcher, David
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A operations supervisor at a city water treatment plant blows the whistle on three high-level city employees for tampering with samples that were to be tested for compliance with biochemical oxygen demand standards for discharging w...
Year: 1995
URL: http://ethics.tamu.edu/Nsfcases/cven/2/civil02.htm

Authors: National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center ; National Society of Professional Engineers, Board of Ethical Review ; National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An engineer refuses to draw up a permit for a building she believes violates environmental standards. Several days later, she learns that her department issued a permit anyway. Includes references to the NSPE Code of Ethics, and a l...
Year: 1992
URL: http://onlineethics.org/cms/14283.aspx