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  • Designing for Deep Learning in Research Ethics Education in advance
    with Sue Wilder
    Teaching Ethics. forthcoming.
    Research ethics education has taken many forms since federal funding agencies issued regulatory guidance directing those supported by these agencies to complete required training. In the absence of a standard training approach among institutions such as universities, the design and content of courses, workshops, and seminars varies widely. Here we describe a southwestern United States research university program that employed six teaching strategies to assist students in deep learning of ethical…Read more
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    Victor Frankenstein’s Institutional Review Board Proposal, 1790
    with Gary Harrison
    Science and Engineering Ethics 21 (5): 1139-1157. 2015.
    To show how the case of Mary Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein brings light to the ethical and moral issues raised in Institutional Review Board protocols, we nest an imaginary IRB proposal dated August 1790 by Victor Frankenstein within a discussion of the importance and function of the IRB. Considering the world of science as would have appeared in 1790 when Victor was a student at Ingolstadt, we offer a schematic overview of a fecund moment when advances in comparative anatomy, medical experiment…Read more