In the direct citation analysis we excluded moral correlates research, but several articles included discussion of the neural basis of morality among other ethics issues.
Because the relevant baseline is the moral baseline, research in which a non-human animal's moral status is enhanced to that of a normal human adult raises the following problem.
The central topic cluster in our graphical analysis included both moral correlates research, and discussion of the ethics issues associated with using fMRI to putatively reveal facets or contents of the mind – often referred to as mind-reading.
However, as we have already highlighted, these differences should not affect our associations in relation to gender, frequency of occurrence and moral distress (research questions two and three).
Those who oppose all use of embryos are right at least to this extent: the moral arguments for research cloning and for research on leftover embryos stand or fall together.
There are strong arguments for the moral imperative to research elderly subjects further, even though research in this realm is both "ethically required and ethically suspect".
What is moral about prohibiting research that holds the promise of curing numerous degenerative illnesses and then refusing to let terminally ill people choose when and how they die?
These statements are drawn from "Advertisements for Myself" (1959), an interview published in The Paris Review in 1963 and the preface to "Why Are We in Vietnam?" (1967), among other sources, yet they are stitched together in "The Spooky Art" in chapters headed "Style," "Genre," "Journalistic Research," "Moral Vision" and so on, as if representing Mailer's latest "thoughts on writing".
The moral dimension of research on child sexual abuse makes it uniquely explosive in psychology, and almost from Day 1 Clancy had, beyond the safe zone of her own department, taken heavy flak for even suggesting that memories of abuse can be faulty.
The moral permissibility of research in which an animal's moral status is enhanced can be evaluated both from the perspective of the research subject and from the perspective of others.
