Framing Ethics and Plagiarism in Medical Research Writing and Publishing
About this ebook
Academic integrity does not just involve commitment to a moral code or ethical policy, it is also about adherence to a set of values that avoid plagiarism and support trustworthy, fair, and honest behaviour in medical research and publishing, thus ensuring that knowledge dissemination proceeds unhampered.
However, plagiarism is often framed in narrow, judgmental terms that leave little room for doctors and researchers to understand its complexities and consequences, made all the more complicated by the increasing use of the internet as a research space.
This book provides an extensive exploration of ethics and plagiarism, helping its readership to understand how and to what extent the language-and-text processing components of medical discourse can and should be scrutinized across the genres that matter to scientific medical research writing practices and publishing.
About the author
Michele Caraglia is Full Professor of Biochemistry at the Department of Precision Medicine at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Biology of the College of Science and Technology at Temple University, USA, and President of the Italian Association of Cell Cultures (AICC). He is the author of more than 400 papers in internationally peer-reviewed journals and of several internationally issued patents. He is on the editorial board of several international peer-reviewed journals.
