Engineering has evolved beyond the equations, laboratory inventions, and drawings. Engineers now have a significant impact on public safety, data privacy, infrastructure reliability, environmental ...

Two out of five child-health studies published in American medical journals fail to say that they have received ethics-committee approval or that participants have given informed consent, says a new ...

For anyone aiming to be a documentary filmmaker, Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall’s 90-minute doc “Subject” should be required viewing. “Subject” explores the ethical responsibilities nonfiction ...

Tribeca: Camilla Hall and Jennifer Tiexiera explore the ethics of doc filmmaking alongside faces from "The Staircase," "Hoop Dreams," and more. Documentaries are often crafted to explore the social ...

Do scholars who work with human subjects — and those who approve such experiments — get good enough training in research ethics? Four months ago, the Office for Human Research Protections, the federal ...

Ethical oversight in human subject research encompasses the policies, procedures and governance frameworks designed to protect participants’ rights, welfare and dignity. Originating from landmark ...

The current financial crisis has led me to reflect on years of teaching two different kinds of ethics classes. I taught business ethics at the university level for eight years, and political ethics ...