ETHICS AND - Sankalp Kumar,

PIMS Jalandhar

RESEARCH
 ETHICS
• Comes from Greek word ‘ethos’
means character
• Systemic study of value concepts –
good, bad, right, wrong and general
principles that justify appling these
concepts
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
• Autonomy – Right to self-governing, respect the choice of the
participants of the research enabling them to make a informed
and uncoerced decisions.
• Beneficence – one should always work for the benefit of the
participants
• Nonmaleficence – one should not do any harm to participants
• Justice – one should treat equally all participants without any
prejudices.
ROLE OF ETHICS IN
RESEARCH
Has three functions
• To protect participants/patients/society/resources and
researchers
• To ensure accuracy of scientific knowledge
• To protect intellectual and property rights
TO PROTECT
PARTICIPANTS/PATIENTS/SOCIETY/RESOUR
CES AND RESEARCHERS

• Protect from harm

• Show respect – privacy/confidentiality, informed consent
• Prevent the exploitation of vulnerable participants
• Prevent the indiscriminate use of resources
• Favourable risk to benefit ratio
TO ENSURE ACCURACY OF
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
• Should not falsify/modify or omit data
• Use actual data for analysis, should not use someone else data
• Report errors
• Beware of conflict of interest
• Should not present/publish from incomplete research
TO PROTECT INTELLECTUAL
AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
• Whenever someone else work is quoted, reference should ne
made to original author
• Acknowledgement should include the names of the persons who
helped
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