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The business of bioscienceDzulkifli Abdul Razak, [email protected] Sains Malaysia

http://www.nature.com/genomics/human/

IAU International Conference, 25-26 June 2010, Vilnius, LithuaniaEthics and values in Higher Education in the Era of Globalisation: What role for the disciplines?

http://thetechnologicalcitizen.com/

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•BIOethics deals with ethical issues arising in the fields of health care, medicine and biology. It may include issues that arise in:delivering health care(e.g., decision-making at the end of life)

promoting health(e.g. funding preventative vs. acute care)

conducting health research(e.g., gene therapy, informed consent), and

the relationship between people and the natural environment (e.g. genetically modified foods)

An ethical issue arises in any situation in which people face choices about how to act that will have an impact on others.

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Is that...

…the right… treatment?

BANKERCODE OF ETHICS

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A set of principles and values that govern behaviour to accord with a notion of

morality.www.jansen.com.au/Dictionary_DF.html

A system of moral principles, rules and standards of conduct.

www.bthurston.com/Real_Estate_Dictionary/page_644889.html

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Codes and Guidelines

1964 - Declaration of Helsinki

1949 - International Code of Medical Ethics of the World Medical Association

2002 - Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences: International ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving Human subjects, and the WHO

1998 - Human Genetic Commission

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UNESCO adopts Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights

• 20 October 2005 – Beyond the well-established principles of informed consent and confidentiality, social responsibility, including improved access to quality health care, figures high in a new Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

• …the proliferation of practices that go beyond national borders, often without a regulatory framework such as biomedical research projects carried out simultaneously in different countries and the importing and exporting of embryos, stem cells, organs, tissue and cells.

• The first principle established by the Declaration is the respect of human dignity and human rights, emphasizing the priority of the interests and welfare of the individual over the sole interest of science or society.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=16296&Cr=UNESCO&Cr1=Bioethics

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The ‘Business’ of Bioscience

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Publish orPerish!

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"I was blinded by work and my drive for achievement."

Dr Hwang Woo-suk leaves his office, SNU – Dec 2005

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Somatic cell nuclear transfer technique used by Hwang in his research

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(10 July 2005)

• U.S. Fielded Record 274 Scientific Misconduct Complaints Last Year, 50 Percent More Than in 2003 -by M Mendoza (AP)

• US Department of Health and Human Services received 274 complaints 50 percent higher than 2003…

• Research suggests this is but a small fraction of all the incidents of fabrication, falsification and plagiarism.

• In a survey published June 9 in the journal Nature, about 1.5 percent of 3,247 researchers who responded admitted to falsification or plagiarism. (One in three admitted to some type of professional misbehavior.)

• [It] tells a story of …struggle with power, lies and the crushing pressure of academia.

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The new ‘education’Factual content

Today,the ethics of education is

no different from the ethics of the marketplace

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degree

marketable

(moving up the ‘value’ chain!)

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…up the ‘value’ chain…

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Jeffrey E Garten

…I frequently asked by people outside the university…whether business schools were doing enough to instill the right values in their students. My answer: “..not nearly far enough.”

Dean, Yale School of Management

BusinessWeek, Sept 5/12, 2005, p. 87

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B-Schools: Only a C+ in EthicsBusinessWeek, Sept 5/12, 2005, p. 87

“Enron’s former chief financial officer, Andrew Fastrow, would likely have turned out to be a bad apple no matter what he was taught in graduate school…That kind of character must be developed much earlier than the typical age of a B-school student, about 27.”

- Jeffrey E Garten, Juan Trippe professor,Dean, Yale School of Management

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Universities in the Marketplace:The Commercialization of Higher Education (2003)

Winner of 2003 "Silver" Frandson Award for Literature in Higher EducationWinner of Alice L. Beeman Research Award in Communications for Educational Advancement

Harvard Rules: The Struggle for the Soul of the World's Most Powerful University (2005)

University Inc.The Corporate CorruptionOf Higher Education (2005)

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John Phillips creator of “Earth Journey” courseat UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business since 2000

In our own evolutionary journey, the human species has attained godlike power. We are no longer just a species among

species. We now have this macrophasic power, driven by

microphasic, biological strategies. But if we don't step back and

use our intelligence for self will become like the cancer that

http://www.earthlight.org/essay42_cosmology.htmlEarthLight Magazine #42, Summer 2001

reinvention, wekills its host.

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WarningWarning: Time for a change

I must realign the values and ethical

priorities in education

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• Our university today flounder for want of a larger and more comprehensive context. Having no adequate larger context in which to function,

our higher educational institutions operate within a splintered and fractionated world view.

• One of the most common solutions to this vacuum is in the reinstatement of past forms of humanistic studies in a core curriculum,a curriculum which includes philosophy, ethics, history, literature, religious studies and some general science.

Transformative Education

E O’Sullivan (2001) Transformative Learning – Educational Vision for the 21st Century (London: Zed Books), p. 93.

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