Ethics Dumping Case Studies from North-South Research Collaborations

Achieving equity in international research is a pressing concern.
Exploitation in any scenario, whether of human research participants, institutions,
local communities, animals or the environment, raises the overarching question of
how to avoid such exploitation. Agreed principles can be universally applied to
research in any discipline or geographical area, whatever methodologies are
employed. This chapter introduces a collection of case studies, presenting a range of
up-to-date examples of exploitation in North-South research collaborations, in order
to raise awareness of ethics dumping.

Keywords : Research ethics, Responsible research and innovation, ethics dumping, exploitations