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Process and procedures for dealing with misconduct: a necessity or a nightmare?
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Process and procedures for dealing with misconduct: a necessity or a nightmare?

D N Bersoff
Journal of dental research, v 75(2), pp 836-840
Feb 1996
PMID: 8655784

Abstract

Biomedical Research Codes of Ethics Ethics, Dental Humans Jurisprudence Liability, Legal Professional Competence - legislation & jurisprudence Professional Role Societies, Dental - legislation & jurisprudence Societies, Dental - organization & administration Societies, Scientific - legislation & jurisprudence Societies, Scientific - organization & administration United States
After a scientific and professional association has developed a code of ethics, it must develop a set of procedures to investigate, adjudicate, and enforce the code's provisions. The author, who is a scientist and an attorney, describes and discusses the fundamental legal principles that must be adhered to so that complaints against members can be adjudicated fairly, objectively, and with little legal risk to the association. The paper defines the concept of due process as it applies to private, non-profit associations and provides an example of how one professional and scientific association actually goes about adjudicating claims of misconduct against its members. It also informs associations about the liability risks that may confront them when they enforce a code of ethics, offers suggestions of how to manage those risks successfully, and concludes by cataloguing some of the financial burdens enforcement entails.

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