Gilbane Gold.
Produced and available through the National Society of Professional Engineers. Contact:
Institute for Engineering Ethics (703) 684-2800. 1989. Cost: $67.00.
•This dramatization was produced to stimulate discussions about engineering ethics in order to promote
ethical conduct in the profession. It is exceptional in that the ethical dilemmas are well distributed
between cast members as engineers, professors, business managers, journalists, and city officials.
An outstanding teaching tool.
Medical Progress: A Miracle at Risk.
Produced and distributed by the Science & Technology Division of the American Medical
Association. The video is part of a resource kit (800) 621-8335. 1992. Cost: Free.
• This video shows interviews with animal rights activists and scientists who use animals in research. It
is produced by the American Medical Association, whose position is that many advances in
medicine, both in the past and in the present, depend on the use of animals in research. Although
the conclusion is biased by this position, the presentation demonstrates many of the arguments on
each side.
Obedience.
Produced by Stanley Milgram. Available through Penn State Audio Visual Services,
University Park, Pa. (814) 865-6314. 1969. Cost: $310.00 purchase/$35.00 rental.
• This is the classic Stanley Milgram research experiment, which spawned countless ethics discussions
and textbook inclusions. It raises questions of deception of research subjects.
Protecting Human Subjects.
Produced and available through the National Institutes of Health and the Food & Drug
Administration (301) 496-8101. 1985. Cost: Free.
• Three instructional films are collected on this one video. Topics covered are the development of
today’s programs to protect human subjects of research and how the needs came about, the criteria
used by Institutional Review Boards in reviewing research plans, and the application of basic ethical
principles in the actual conduct of human research. The three films are (1) Evolving Concerns, (2)
the Belmont Report, and (3) Balancing Society’s Mandates.
Scientific Research Integrity Video Series.
A project directed by Mark S. Frankel and Albert H. Teich, sponsored by the American
Association for the Advancement of Science in cooperation with Amram Nowak
Associates, Inc., Producer and The Medical College of Georgia, Division of Health
Communication. The set of five tapes and discussion and resource guide are available
through AAAS (202) 326-6600. 1996. Cost: $79.95 (discount for AAAS members).
• Five short (7–9 minute) dramatized vignettes raise realistic issues in
laboratory research ethics. Each vignette is complex, subtly raising a selection of
ethical issues that are faced by individuals and institutions that engage in
research. The Discussion and Research Guide provides a thoughtful synopsis of
issues raised in each vignette and a series of questions sure to generate lively
discussion among those interested in the responsible conduct of research. The
Guide also includes a bibliography of materials relating to science and to ethics
pedagogy.
60 Minutes—Challenger
Aired 1/21/96. Manufactured by Ambrose Video Publishers, Inc. Distributed by CBS-60
Minutes (800)848-3256. 1996. Cost: $33.90.
• This segment of “60 Minutes” reviews the 1986 Challenger Disaster in which school teacher Christa
McAuliffe and six astronauts lost their lives. The video focuses on the recollections and concerns of
the families of the victims. In addition it introduces the audience to the issues raised by two
engineers who attempted to report on the faulty O-rings. The details of the interaction between
these whistleblowers and the management of Morton Thiokol and NASA are not explored in depth,
but the segment does provide an introduction to the case.
60 Minutes—Michael Carey, MD.
Aired 1/24/93. Manufactured by Ambrose Video Publishers, Inc. Distributed by CBS-60
Minutes (800)848-3256. 1993. Cost: $33.90.
• This segment of “60 Minutes” focuses on Dr. Michael Carey, a physician whose research involves
neurologic injury to cats, and the targeting of his research by animal rights activists.
60 Minutes—Who Poisoned MaryAnn?
Aired 12/10/95. Manufactured by Ambrose Video Publishers, Inc. Distributed by CBS-60
Minutes (800)848-3256. 1995. Cost: $33.90.
• This “60 Minutes” segment reviews the case of radiation poisoning of a young, pregnant scientist
working at the National Institutes of Health. Issues related to the regulation and handling of
radioactive materials are discussed. Interpersonal conflicts within laboratories are also addressed.
A Stampede of Zebras.
Under production at the Center for Applied Ethics, Duke University, under a grant from the
National Science Foundation. Cosponsored by the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College.
Contact Aarne Vesilind (at Duke) (919) 660-5204. 1996. Cost: Not determined.
• A video production of the play written by Robert G. Martin, which depicts the unfolding of complex
ethical dilemmas in a research