Professional ethics in the classroom

✍ Scribed by Stanislaus J. Dundon

• Book ID: 105501014
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 860 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0889-048X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf02217651

✦ Synopsis

He is trained in history and philosphy of science and technology and teaches principally in ethics in the applied sciences. To prepare himself for work in agriculture, starting in 1980 he spent two years in Washington, D.C., first as a Congressional Fellow in the office of Representative George Brown whose committee oversees the USDA, agricultural research and foreign agriculture. He later obtained Rockefeller support to study human values in agriculture, working partly at the Center for the Study of Values at the University of Delaware and partly at the National Agricultural Library, and also at the University of Maryland teaching the history of agricultural sciences. During this time he began to publish on agricultural issues, dealing with risk/benefit analysis, research policy and agricultural development.

Upon return to his campus, he established, with a group of agriculturists, the first team-taught courses in agricultural ethics in the country. He and his faculty team give presentations on agricultural ethics to professional farm advisor groups in California.