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The Jessica Banks Case
Jessica Banks, a Ph.D. student in Professor Brian Hayward’s lab, has recently defended her
dissertation and is now ready to file it and leave for her new job. During her second year, when
starting research in Hayward’s lab, Banks divided her time among three projects. Then in her third
year, after consultation with Hayward, she decided to continue and expand upon one of the three
lines of investigation for her dissertation research. This was also the project most closely related
to Hayward’s grant at the time. Later, Banks’s experimental plan and early results were included
in Hayward’s grant renewal. The other two promising lines of research were left incomplete.
Banks’s new job is a tenure-track position in a mid-sized western liberal arts college. Shortly
before leaving for her job, she comes into the lab to pick up her notebooks. Although her new
faculty position will place a heavy emphasis on teaching, she is looking forward to continuing to
do some research as well. In particular, she is eager to pick up where she left off with the two
uncompleted projects she worked on before.
Professor Hayward meets Banks on her way into the lab, and their genial conversation
abruptly changes when she mentions she has come to take her notebooks.
Hayward exclaims, “You can’t take those notebooks away — they belong to the lab!”
Banks is confused. “But I did the work, and I wanted to follow up on it. I can’t do that without
the notebooks.”
Professor Hayward is adamant. “I’m sorry, but you should understand this. This lab is a joint
enterprise, and all the work you did was funded by money I brought in via grants. The notebooks
don’t belong to you, nor to me; they belong to the lab, and the work will be continued in this lab.
I’ve already talked to one of the new students about working on those projects this fall.”
Banks, seeing her plans fall apart around her, protests, but Hayward is implacable. After a few
minutes, she stalks away, without the notebooks.
Later that afternoon, Banks gets together with her classmate Paul Larson, and during their
conversation, she tells him about her run-in with Hayward.
“Look,” says Larson. “Hayward has no right to deny you access to the information in the
notebooks. Even if the books should remain in the lab, you did the work that generated all the
data.”
“I know!” says Banks. “But Hayward wouldn’t listen to that argument when I made it.”
“Here’s my suggestion,” says Larson after some reflection. “Just stop by the lab and photocopy
the books some time during the weekend. I happen to know Hayward will be out of town,
so he’ll never know. That’s the fair thing to do: He gets to keep the notebooks in his lab, and you
get a copy of the data you collected.”
Banks seems uncertain, but says she’ll think about Larson’s suggestion and decide before the
weekend.
Should Banks photocopy the notebooks? Why or why not?
Reprinted from Muriel J. Bebeau, et al., Moral Reasoning in Scientific Research: Cases for Teaching and Assessment. Bloomington, Indiana: Poynter Center (1995). This case maybe reproduced, unaltered, and used without permission for non-profit educational use. Copyright (C) 1995 by Indiana University; all rights reserved.
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The Jessica Banks Case
Jessica Banks, a Ph.D. student in Professor Brian Hayward’s lab, has recently defended her
dissertation and is now ready to file it and leave for her new job. During her second year, when
starting research in Hayward’s lab, Banks divided her time among three projects. Then in her third
year, after consultation with Hayward, she decided to continue and expand upon one of the three
lines of investigation for her dissertation research. This was also the project most closely related
to Hayward’s grant at the time. Later, Banks’s experimental plan and early results were included
in Hayward’s grant renewal. The other two promising lines of research were left incomplete.
Banks’s new job is a tenure-track position in a mid-sized western liberal arts college. Shortly
before leaving for her job, she comes into the lab to pick up her notebooks. Although her new
faculty position will place a heavy emphasis on teaching, she is looking forward to continuing to
do some research as well. In particular, she is eager to pick up where she left off with the two
uncompleted projects she worked on before.
Professor Hayward meets Banks on her way into the lab, and their genial conversation
abruptly changes when she mentions she has come to take her notebooks.
Hayward exclaims, “You can’t take those notebooks away — they belong to the lab!”
Banks is confused. “But I did the work, and I wanted to follow up on it. I can’t do that without
the notebooks.”
Professor Hayward is adamant. “I’m sorry, but you should understand this. This lab is a joint
enterprise, and all the work you did was funded by money I brought in via grants. The notebooks
don’t belong to you, nor to me; they belong to the lab, and the work will be continued in this lab.
I’ve already talked to one of the new students about working on those projects this fall.”
Banks, seeing her plans fall apart around her, protests, but Hayward is implacable. After a few
minutes, she stalks away, without the notebooks.
Later that afternoon, Banks gets together with her classmate Paul Larson, and during their
conversation, she tells him about her run-in with Hayward.
“Look,” says Larson. “Hayward has no right to deny you access to the information in the
notebooks. Even if the books should remain in the lab, you did the work that generated all the
data.”
“I know!” says Banks. “But Hayward wouldn’t listen to that argument when I made it.”
“Here’s my suggestion,” says Larson after some reflection. “Just stop by the lab and photocopy
the books some time during the weekend. I happen to know Hayward will be out of town,
so he’ll never know. That’s the fair thing to do: He gets to keep the notebooks in his lab, and you
get a copy of the data you collected.”
Banks seems uncertain, but says she’ll think about Larson’s suggestion and decide before the
weekend.
Should Banks photocopy the notebooks? Why or why not?
Reprinted from Muriel J. Bebeau, et al., Moral Reasoning in Scientific Research: Cases for Teaching and Assessment. Bloomington, Indiana: Poynter Center (1995). This case maybe reproduced, unaltered, and used without permission for non-profit educational use. Copyright (C) 1995 by Indiana University; all rights reserved.
[hr:35dd892a0e]
Khi bàn luận về các case work, xin mọi người chú ý các điểm sau:
- Xác định những xung đột về mặt đạo lý trong từng trường hợp
- Tính pháp lý đối với từng bên liên quan
- Những hậu quả của từng hành động/trường hợp có thể xảy ra
- Những trách nhiệm và nghĩa vụ về đạo lý của từng bên liên quan