ISBN:
9781468440195
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (272p)
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digital
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
The Hastings Center Series in Ethics
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Keywords:
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Management science.
Abstract:
to the Problems -- 1: Pitfalls in the Pursuit of Knowledge -- 2: Legitimate and Illegitimate Uses of Violence: A Review of Ideas and Evidence -- II: Three Case Studies -- 3: How Not to Study Violence -- III: Implications -- 4: Science and Social Control: Controversies over Research on Violence -- 5: Embattled Research: Psychiatry, Politics, and the Study of Violent Behavior -- 6: Fragile Knowledge and Stubborn Ignorance: Agenda for the Study of Violence -- 7: Ethics and the Control of Research.
Abstract:
This volume is one outcome of a two-year study conducted by the Behavioral Studies Research Group of The Hastings 1 Center. It is divided into three parts to reflect the several facets of the interdisciplinary project from which it stems. In the opening chapter Willard Gaylin and Ruth Macklin, who di rected the study, describe its basic conception and structure, which centered around three programs to conduct research into aspects of violence and aggressive behavior, programs aborted in the early 1970s because they were politically and IThis project was supported by the EVIST Program of the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 05577-17072, and by a joint award by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any opinions, findings, conclu sions, or recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the National Endowment for the Humanities. Other published outcomes are the edited transcripts of two of the case-study workshops conducted under this project: "Researching Violence: Science, Politics, and Public Contro versy," Special Supplement, The Hastings Center Report 9 (April 1979); and "The XYY Controversy: Researching Violence and Genetics," Special Sup plement, The Hastings Center Report 10 (August 1980). Copies of these tran scripts are available for purchase from The Hastings Center, 360 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706. ix PREFACE x socially controversial.
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4684-4019-5
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