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American College of Physicians Ethics Manual
Part II: Research, Other Ethical Issues. Recommended Reading.
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Research
Research is an integral part of medicine today. It provides the new knowledge necessary for preventing and treating disease. Without that new knowledge progress in health care is impossible. Just as physicians have unique responsibilities to patients and society so also must biomedical scientists operate within constraints that reflect their particular franchise.
The basic principle underlying all research is honesty. It is the responsibility of scientists to provide research results of high quality; to gather facts meticulously; to keep impeccable records of work done; to interpret results realistically, not forcing them into preconceived molds or models; and to report
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments: The College expresses profound gratitude to the following persons for their detailed and scholarly critiques: Lee J. Dunn, Jr., Esq., counsel to the law firm of Shagory and Shagory in Boston; Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino, Director of the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; and Dr. Charles Aring, Professor Emeritus of Neurology at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The College also expresses appreciation to the Commonwealth Fund for its generous contribution in helping the College produce this manual.
Article and Author Information
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↵* The American College of Physicians Ad Hoc Committee on Medical Ethics consisted of Dr. Harriet P. Dustan, Chairman; Drs. Robert M. Kark; John F. Burnum; Arthur W. Feinberg; C.S. Lewis, Jr.; Richard J. Reitemeier; Jeremiah A. Barondess; Richard W. Vilter; Donald E. Wilson; and Robert H. Moser (ex officio). The Recommended Reading list was compiled and annotated by Dr. Mark Siegler, University of Chicago.
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The section "Scientific Publication" was adapted, with permission of the publisher, from: CBE STYLE MANUAL COMMITTEE: Ethical conduct in authorship and publication. In: CBE Style Manual: A Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers in the Biological Sciences. 5th ed. Bethesda, Maryland: Council of Biology Editors, Inc.; 1983:1-3.
