Interim report on the Joint International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)—Global Environmental Epidemiology Network (GEENET) Ethics Survey

Soskolne, Colin L.; Jhangri, Gian S.; Hunter, Brad; Close, Melanie

doi:10.1016/0048-9697(95)04981-9

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“…Surveys to date have targeted epidemiologists and other public health professionals, public health students, and institutions that train public health professionals (19,(52)(53)(54)(55) and principles that were grouped into nine major areas. The greatest disagreement concerned the role of the environmental epidemiologist as a "dispassionate scientist" or a "passionate advocate"; other disagreement revolved around whether environmental epidemiology is an applied science or a basic science and whether environmental epidemiologists should be committed to influencing society in ways that maximize the likelihood of "health for all."…”

Section: Epidemiologic Values Reflected In Results From Ethics Surveysmentioning

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Ethics in Epidemiology at the End of the 20th Century: Ethics, Values, and Mission Statements

Coughlin¹

2000

Epidemiologic Reviews

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Section: Epidemiologic Values Reflected In Results From Ethics Surveysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethics in Epidemiology at the End of the 20th Century: Ethics, Values, and Mission Statements

Coughlin¹

2000

Epidemiologic Reviews

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Implementing ethics in the professions: Examples from environmental epidemiology

Soskolne

Sieswerda

2003

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The need to integrate ethics into professional life, from the grassroots up, has been recognized, and a comprehensive ethics program has been proposed as a model. The model includes the four dimensions of: consensus building, ethics guidelines development and review, education, and implementation. The activities of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) are presented as examples and compared with the proposed model. Several innovative activities are described and incentives for ethical professional conduct are highlighted. The examples are provided for emulation by other professional organizations in the hope that, thereby, greater protection of the public interest will be achieved.

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Publication visibility of sensitive public health data: When scientists bury their results

Rier

2004

SCI ENG ETHICS

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What happens when the scientific tradition of openness clashes with potential societal risks? The work of American toxic-exposure epidemiologists can attract media coverage and lead the public to change health practices, initiate lawsuits, or take other steps a study's authors might consider unwarranted. This paper, reporting data from 61 semi-structured interviews with U.S. toxic-exposure epidemiologists, examines whether such possibilities shaped epidemiologists' selection of journals for potentially sensitive papers. Respondents manifested strong support for the norm of scientific openness, but a significant minority had or would/might, given the right circumstances, publish sensitive data in less visible journals, so as to prevent unwanted media or public attention. Often, even those advocating such limited "burial" upheld openness, claiming that less visible publication allowed them to avoid totally withholding the data from publication. However, 15% of the sample had or would, for the most sensitive types of data, withhold publication altogether. Rather than respondents explaining their actions in terms of an expected split between "pure science" and "social advocacy" models, even those publishing in the more visible journals often described their actions in terms of their "responsibility". Several practical limitations (particularly involving broader access to scientific literature via the Internet) of the strategy of burial are discussed, and some recommendations are offered for scientists, the media, and the public.

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Interim report on the Joint International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)—Global Environmental Epidemiology Network (GEENET) Ethics Survey

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

Ethics in Epidemiology at the End of the 20th Century: Ethics, Values, and Mission Statements

Ethics in Epidemiology at the End of the 20th Century: Ethics, Values, and Mission Statements

Implementing ethics in the professions: Examples from environmental epidemiology

Publication visibility of sensitive public health data: When scientists bury their results

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