Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-5 of 5
- A group of former/recovering meth addicts speak about the recovery process and the effect of meth use on their lives.
- Examines the impact of methamphetamine on individuals, families, and communities across the globe.
- WINDOWS TO RECOVERY explores effective treatment practices across program types and settings.
- Moving from the one of the earliest examples of federal intervention in science and technology ethics to one of the most recent, the 2008 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) provides an example of the ways in which ethics intersect with the work of knowledge creation. Rather than direct commission of scientists and engineers, GINA seeks to protect a source of scientific data: volunteers who contribute genetic information to research. Legislators, convinced by actors ranging from scientists to lobbyists, determined that understanding the human genetic code relied on collecting a broad base of genetic information for study. Projects such as the Personal Genome Project rely on thousands of volunteers to submit DNA samples (Callaway, 2008). GINA promises that disclosure of genetic information will not be used to hinder, damage, or otherwise demean these volunteers. In so doing, GINA attempts to guarantee equal treatment regardless of an individual's inherited genetic code. GINA implies that ethics is a part of the process of science by highlighting the right to privacy of research subjects. In so doing, GINA draws on a long history of the protection of privacy, safety and dignity of research subjects (Office of the Secretary of The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, 1979).
- The rise of open-source software development illustrates the relationship between computing innovation and ethical principles. The ethical concerns held by a community of software developers lead to innovation in open source licensing and copyright agreements (Kelty, 2008). A community of developers came to believe that software code should be free and widely shared, rather than proprietary. What began as a method to create better software took on moral dimensions as supporters adopted arguments for freedom and autonomy. These ethics percolated until a large community of programmers believed that sharing code was the right thing to do - both ethically and practically. This ethic of openness lead developers to experiment with ways to license their work for sharing under the existing U.S. copyright regime. The result was a variety of creative commons licenses: "hacks" of copyright law that became innovations in their own right. These novel licenses allowed the open source movement to grow and prosper, and have spread beyond software to use in such diverse media distribution as book publishing and photo sharing. Once a fringe belief, open source ethics are slowly becoming institutionalized, and are now taught as good practice in diverse design labs and computer science classrooms.