Beyond the Large Farm: Ethics and Agricultural Research

20世纪80年代，第一个持续和系统的研究， 农业研究伦理在美国这些研究有 成功地界定了《公约》的规范层面， 领域，建立对生产力，权衡， 限制和可持续性是决定性的特征。 在个案研究、访谈等方面做了一些实证工作 研究的决定因素和结果 选择. 该项目将通过整合一个 对规范性批评的评估， 农业科学家可能会吸取 这些批评的规划和管理， 正在进行的研究活动。 一组八名教师，五名 农业科学、工程和管理专业， 三是社会科学和哲学，构成核心 研究团队。 该小组将在2010年期间每周或每两周举行一次会议。 在背景研究会议上， 与研究议程相关的论文和主题将在 讨论 它将分析和对比替代值， 通过举办一系列的四个研讨会， 从农业和社会科学领域 人文科学领域的科学家和学者，重点关注道德 研究目标和选择的维度。 评论后， 修订，研讨会的最后论文将被收集， 由主要研究人员编辑的一卷出版物。 为规划和管理 研究，核心小组将开发案例，并分析其 在每月报告会议上的目标和价值影响 农业科学家将率先讨论 正在进行的研究活动。 其他感兴趣的教师是 预计将参加许多小组会议。 的结果 这些分析将在适当的时候发表。 农业期刊以及针对农业的期刊 科学和技术研究社区。 两名研究 研究助理将协助开发和领导小组 会议的实质性记录， 作为研讨会的讨论，并在制定附加说明的 该领域的参考书目。 这个复杂的项目具有内在的和实际的重要性。 研究者和团队成员具有独特的资格， 非常适合进行研究;机构 支持非常好，机构设置增加 结果产生影响的可能性。 该项目 设计良好，传播成果的计划 好. 之后，后续工作可能会继续 这个奖项的时间。 合作国家研究 农业部正在帮助支持 这个项目

The 1980s saw the first sustained and systematic studies of agricultural research ethics in the U.S. These studies have been successful in delimiting the normative dimensions of the field, establishing that concerns for productivity, tradeoffs, constraints, and sustainability are defining characteristics. Some empirical work has been done, in case studies, interviews and surveys, to delineate determinants and outcomes of research choices. This project will break new ground by integrating an assessment of the normative critiques with an analysis of ways working agricultural scientists might incorporate lessons from those critiques into the planning and administration of their ongoing research activities. A group of eight faculty, five from agricultural sciences, engineering and administration and three from social science and philosophy, comprise the core research team. This group will meet weekly or biweekly during the course of the project at background study sessions where papers and topics relevant to the research agenda will be discussed. It will analyse and contrast alternative values for agricultural research by conducting a series of four workshops with commissioned papers from agricultural and social scientists and scholars in the humanities, focusing on ethical dimensions of research goals and choices. After comment and revision, final papers from the workshops will be gathered for publication in a volume edited by the principal investigators. To identify lessons for the planning and administration of research, the core group will develop cases and analyse their goals and value implications in monthly reporting sessions at which agricultural scientists will take the lead in discussing on-going research activities. Other interested faculty are expected to attend many of the group sessions. The results of these analyses will be prepared for publication in appropriate agriculture journals as well as journals directed to the science and technology studies community. Two graduate research assistants will assist in developing and leading group sessions, keeping substantive records of the meetings as well as the workshop discussions, and in developing annotated bibliographies for the field. This complex project is of intrinsic and practical importance. The investigators and team members are uniquely qualified and very well positioned to undertake the research; institutional support is very good and the institutional setting increases the likelihood that results will have impact. The project is designed well and plans for the dissemination of results are good. It is likely that follow-on efforts will continue after the period of this award. The Cooperative States Research Service of the Department of Agriculture is helping to support this project.