A Hippocratic Oath for life scientists

Analyzing the semantic space of the Hippocratic Oath

“…The highly positive evaluation of the Hippocratic Oath among the youngest generation of physicians confirms the importance of the educational process and validates its success, as can be seen from our conclusions. As Revill & Dando [30] have pointed out, we need to build upon this validation.…”

The “Geoethical Promise”: A Proposal

“…The solemn and voluntary undertaking of one's own personal geoethical responsibility will facilitate the putting into practice of the geoethical principles. The reasons in favor of the introduction of an explicit ethical oath, both for all scientists and life scientists (Roblat, 1995;Revill and Dando, 2006) and for geoscientists (Ellis and Haff, 2009;Matteucci et al, 2012) have already been discussed, but without any proposed basic text. Below, we offer an example of a possible formula of an oath for geoscientists which was presented at the session on geoethics of the 34 th International Geological Congress, held in Brisbane in 2012.…”

Citizen biologists

“…The result is that biological research and biologists themselves have come under increasing public scrutiny, both for the topics they research and the methods they use. To prevent the weaponizing of dangerous biological research, for example, various commentators have proposed a code of ethics or something similar to the Hippocratic Oath for biologists (Revill & Dando, 2006; van Aken, 2006). Similarly, cases of misconduct have led to ever‐stricter regulations of laboratory practice (Kreutzberg, 2004).…”