Annotated Links
for
Professional Ethics & Wrongful Discharge
Copyright 2000 by Ronald B. Standler
Table of Contents
teaching materials: ethics for scientists or engineers
academic centers for ethics in the USA
academic centers outside the USA
professional societies
links to resources for whistleblowers
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Professional Ethics & Wrongful Discharge.
Introduction
To shorten my long essay on
Professional Ethics & Wrongful Discharge
in the USA, I have moved my annotated list of links from that essay to here.
These links are not a bibliography for my essay on
Professional Ethics & Wrongful Discharge,
but are sources of additional information on ethics and whistleblowing.
These links are provided only as a convenience to the reader.
These links are not legal advice for your
specific problem. See my disclaimer.
teaching materials:
ethics for scientists or engineers
Dr. Linda Sweeting, a chemistry professor at Towson University in Baltimore,
teaches a class
in ethics for scientists. She has posted the syllabus for that class
at her website, including an extensive collection of links to other web sites
and a huge bibliography.
The Digital Library for the class
Professionalism in Computing
taught in the Computer Science Department at Virginia State Polytechnic Institute.
On-Line Science Ethics Resources
is maintained by Dr. Brian Tissue of the Chemistry Department at Virginia State Polytechnic Institute.
An older – but commonly linked – web page at the same department,
Ethics in Science
has not been revised since July 1997.
The University of Virginia
Engineering Ethics
has a collection of case studies in ethical problems in engineering and business.
The Information Technology and Engineering Computer Sciences Department
at the North Carolina State University (NCSU) at Raleigh has posted a web page
Ethics in Computing
that has an extensive collection of links to information in
codes of ethics, whistleblowing, freedom of speech, and
many more issues. Look under Basics in the site map on
their home page. Some of the articles require a password from NCSU before
one can read them.
Dr. Herkert at NCSU has posted a large collection of
links
to web sites for engineering and computer ethics and a
syllabus
for the course in engineering ethics that he teaches.
The College of Engineering at Texas A & M University
Engineering Ethics
has a collection of case studies and essays on ethical problems in engineering.
The Materials Science Department at the State University of New York
at Stony Brook posted a list of links, titled
Ethics in Engineering.
academic centers for ethics in the USA
Online Ethics Center for
Engineering and Science. (This center was apparently previously
affiliated with MIT and Case Western Reserve University.)
The Illinois Institute of Technology Center for the Study of
Ethics in the Professions
has a large collection of ethical codes posted at its website.
Poynter Center
for the Study of Ethics at Indiana University in Bloomington
has a large list of links to other web sites.
Markkula Center
for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.
BioEthics
at the University of Pennsylvania has a large collection of material
and links.
"Ethics Updates"
from Dr. Lawrence M. Hinman in the Philosophy Department
at the University of San Diego.
Ethics and the Professions
at Harvard University.
academic centers outside the USA
Finding the same ethical principle in both code(s) of ethics from
professional societies in the USA and in codes(s) of ethics from
professional societies in Europe, Australia, and elsewhere, shows
that the ethical principle is universal. Moreover, many of these
foreign sites have links to sites in the USA.
The Centre of Computing and Social Responsibility at
De Montfort University
in Leicester, England has a
collection
of links to codes of ethics for software engineering and electrical engineering,
accuracy of data, robotics, and other topics in ethics.
Dr. Alex Sergejew of the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia
has a large list of
links
to ethical codes, mostly concerned with medical ethics and bioethics.
The Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia in Canada
has a large collection of
links
to web sites about ethics in: medicine, biology, science & technology,
computers & information technology, business, and journalism.
The Centre for Research Ethics at Göteborg University in Sweden has a collection of
links to resources in ethics
in scientific research and medicine.
professional societies
See the links to specific codes of ethics in the text of my long
essay on
Professional Ethics & Wrongful Discharge.
National Institute for Engineering Ethics
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE-USA) has a list of
links
to Ethics Resources for Engineers.
Ethics Working Group of
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
links to resources for whistleblowers
The National Whistleblower Center
is a nonprofit group that attempts to protect the rights of employee-whistleblowers.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) has posted practical
Guidelines
for Engineers Dissenting on Ethical Grounds.
The Government Accountability Project
has survival tips for whistleblowers.
The U.S. Government has a
special counsel
to assist employees of the federal government from reprisal for whistleblowing.
The U.S. Government's Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Research Integrity
has a web page on protection of whistleblowers.
Walter L. Elden, P.E.
has a web site devoted to ethics, rights, and responsibilities of
engineers in the USA.
The Information Technology and Engineering Computer Sciences Department
at the North Carolina State University at Raleigh has posted a collection of
links
concerning whistleblowing.
this list of links is at http://www.rbs2.com/ethics2.htm
last revision: 23 Aug 2001
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