Research Fraud in the Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences [first edition]

Research fraud has become a hot topic in recent years as the number of cases uncovered has grown in both academic and industrial settings. Deals with the issues involved both from the moral/ethical viewpoint as well as the legal. Covers the institutional and career pressures to perform; the review process used by professional journals and institutional review boards; the psychological characteristics of perpetrators; and discusses several actual cases and their outcome.