Jacob, M-A (2016) On the Scope and Typology of ‘Research Misconduct’: The Gaze of the General Medical Council, 1990–2015. Medical Law Review, 24 (4). pp. 497-517. ISSN 0967-0742
Abstract
Violations of research integrity are understood to have wide-ranging negative consequences for the trustworthiness of science and the health of the public. My goal in this article is not to cause further outrage about research misconduct. Instead, this article queries research conducts expressly as seen through the eyes of a specific regulator and over a specific period (1990–2015). The result is an assessment of the strengths and limitations of the application of the General Medical Council’s (GMC’s) fitness to practice model in this area. It provides with an opportunity to shift the analytical attention back onto the existing typology of research misconduct—the classic Fabrication, Falsification, and Plagiarism or FFP—point to its deficiencies, and imagine how it could be refined in light of what the fitness to practice casework tells us about concrete, context-specific instances of research misconduct committed by medical practitioners. In the literature, there has been neither a systematic examination of research behaviours as they get apprehended—when they do—through the lens of the British medical professional regulator, nor a case-based reflection on whether the existing frameworks and typologies used in the scientific community describe adequately the practices of medical research misconduct. The article aims to fill these two gaps.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Medical Law Review following peer review. The version of record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fww019 |
Keywords: | General Medical Council; Medical regulation; Professional discipline; Research ethics; Research integrity; Research misconduct |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Aug 2019 09:07 |
Last Modified: | 10 Feb 2020 11:21 |
Published Version: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27707898 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/medlaw/fww019 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:150215 |