Using Ethical Reasoning to Amplify the Reach and Resonance of Professional Codes of Conduct in Training Big Data Scientists

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1485-1507

  Tractenberg, Rochelle E ^a   Russell, Andrew J ^b   Morgan, Gregory J ^b   FitzGerald, Kevin T ^a   Collmann, Jeff ^a   Vinsel, Lee ^b   Steinmann, Michael ^b   Dolling, Lisa M ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Data; Curriculum; Ethics education; Professionalism; Training

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; ETHICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL ETHICS; PERSONNEL; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENCE; STATISTICS; THINKING;

CODES OF ETHICS; COMPUTERS; CURRICULUM; DATA COLLECTION; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SCIENCE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THINKING;

EID: 84948092763     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 14715546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-014-9613-1     Document Type: Article

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