Beyond the Large Farm: Ethics and Agricultural Research

超越大农场：伦理与农业研究

• 批准号: 8812100
• 负责人: Paul Thompson
• 金额: $ 11.46万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-09-01 至 1991-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8812100&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Beyond; Large; Farm; Ethics; Agricultural

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.

1980年代，美国对农业研究伦理学的首次持续和系统的研究成功地划定了该领域的规范性维度，确立了对生产率，权衡，约束和可持续性的关注，这是定义的特征。 在案例研究，访谈和调查中，已经完成了一些经验工作，以描述研究选择的决定因素和结果。 该项目将通过将对规范性批评的评估与对农业科学家的方式进行分析的分析，将这些批评中的经验教训纳入其正在进行的研究活动的计划和管理中，从而打破了新的基础。 由八个教师组成的小组，五个来自农业科学，工程和行政管理，三个来自社会科学与哲学，由核心研究团队组成。 该小组将在项目课程中每周或每两周开会，在背景研究课程中，将讨论与研究议程相关的论文和主题。 它将通过在人文科学中与农业和社会科学家和学者的委托论文进行一系列四个研讨会，分析农业研究的替代价值，重点介绍研究目标和选择的道德维度。 评论和修订后，将在首席调查人员编辑的卷中收集讲习班的最后一篇论文。 为了确定研究和管理研究的教训，核心小组将在每月举报会议上制定案例并分析其目标和价值的影响，农业科学家将在讨论正在进行的研究活动中牵头。 预计其他有兴趣的教师将参加许多小组会议。 这些分析的结果将准备在适当的农业期刊以及针对科学技术研究社区的期刊上发表。 两名研究生研究助理将协助开发和领导小组会议，保留会议的实质性记录以及研讨会的讨论，并为该领域开发带注释的书目。 这个复杂的项目具有内在的和实际的重要性。 调查人员和团队成员具有独特的资格，并且在进行研究方面非常好；机构支持非常好，机构设置增加了结果会影响的可能性。 该项目设计良好，结果传播结果的计划也不错。 在此奖励期间，可能会继续进行后续工作。 农业部的合作国家研究服务正在帮助支持该项目。