Getting to Good

Arthur L Caplan, PhD Currently the Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Division of Bioethics at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City. He is the head of the ethics program in the Global Institute for Public Health at NYU. Prior to coming to NYU he was the Sidney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia where he created the Center for Bioethics and the Department of Medical Ethics. Caplan has also taught at the University of Minnesota, where he founded the Center for Biomedical Ethics, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University. He received his PhD from Columbia University. Caplan is the author or editor of thirty-two books and over 600 papers in peer reviewed journals. His most recent book is Replacement Parts: The Ethics of Procuring and Replacing Organs in Humans (Georgetown University Press, 2015).He has served on a number of national and international committees including as the Chair, National Cancer Institute Biobanking Ethics Working Group; the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning; the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability; a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses; the special advisory panel to the National Institutes of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects, the Wellcome Trust advisory panel on research in humanitarian crises, and the Co-Director of the Joint Council of Europe/United Nations Study on Trafficking in Organs and Body Parts.

Chapter 1.   Methodology.- Chapter 2.  Policy.- Chapter 3. Reproducibility.- Chapter 4. Human Subjects Proction.- Chapter 5. Responsible Authorship.- Chapter 6. Mentor-Mentee Responsibilities and Relationships.- Chapter 7. Plagarism.- Chapter 8. Peer Review.- Chapter 9. Research Misconduct.- Chapter 10. Whistleblowing.- Chapter 11. Confict of Interest.- Chapter 12. Date Acquisition, Management and Transparency.- Chapter 13.  International Research Involving Resoruce-Constrained Countries.- Appendix.