Reflections on the History and Ethics of the Proper Attribution and Misappropriation of Merit

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 54 (4):470-478 (2011)
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The ethical conduct of research is central to the integrity of universities, where research and graduate education are inseparable.In the medical sciences, those who first describe a new feature, whether it's an anatomical structure, clinical sign or symptom, disease, physiological entity, or surgical procedure, often have their discoveries named after them. The insider knows what is meant by such eponymous, abstract designations as Padget's disease, the circle of Willis, Pavlov's dog, Asperger's syndrome, or the Papanicoulaou test. This kind of acknowledgment is not just restricted to medicine, it also applies to other fields of science and technology, where terms like the Heisenberg uncertainty principle ..

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