Measuring Biotechnology Employees’ Ethical Attitudes towards a Controversial Transgenic Cattle Project: The Ethical Valence Matrix
| Autor: | Mark W. Fisher, Bruce Small |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Employment
Genetic Research History Psychometrics Social Values media_common.quotation_subject Statistics as Topic Ethical reasoning Morals Animals Genetically Modified Principle-Based Ethics Surveys and Questionnaires Animals Humans Environmental Chemistry Sociology Valence (psychology) General Environmental Science Myelin Basic Protein Gene media_common business.industry Data Collection Agriculture Myelin Basic Protein Special Interest Group Morality Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Biotechnology Harm Attitude Food Technology Cattle Genetic Engineering business Social psychology Social responsibility Autonomy New Zealand |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 18:495-508 |
| ISSN: | 1573-322X 1187-7863 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10806-005-0904-z |
| Popis: | What is the relationship between biotechnology employees’ beliefs about the moral outcomes of a controversial transgenic research project and their attitudes of acceptance towards the project? To answer this question, employees (n=466) of a New Zealand company, AgResearch Ltd., were surveyed regarding a project to create transgenic cattle containing a synthetic copy of the human myelin basic protein gene (hMBP). Although diversity existed amongst employees’ attitudes of acceptance, they were generally: in favor of the project, believed that it should be allowed to proceed to completion, and that it is acceptable to use transgenic cattle to produce medicines for humans. These three items were aggregated to form a project acceptance score. Scales were developed to measure respondents’ beliefs about the moral outcomes of the project for identified stakeholders in terms of the four principles of common morality (benefit, non-harm, justice, and autonomy). These data were statistically aggregated into an Ethical Valence Matrix for the project. The respondents’ project Ethical Valence Scores correlated significantly with their project acceptance scores (r=0.64, p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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