Experiment Eleven: Dark Secrets behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug

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Title: Experiment Eleven: Dark Secrets behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug
Author: Peter Pringle
Publisher:Walker and Company
Year: 2012
288 pages

 The "dark secrets" of the title are, as one might expect, ethico-legal. However, they're about attribution of scientific discovery, order of precedence in publication, and the sometimes-nefarious behavior of institutions rather than dark secrets in the style of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, Henrietta Lacks, or the infection of children with Hepatitis B. It would be a good text to have graduate students read in order to understand why some professional ethics codes are very specific about the requirement for discussions of authorship and attribution. It might also be a good one to have faculty read with the preventative question, "What seemingly innocuous behaviors might we be engaged in that could lead to faculty and students having discrepant understandings of our relationship and work together?"