Section 1. Integrity and trust: core values in research ethics. Chapter 1. From the ethics of the research project to the ethical communication of science: particularities in the social and humanistic fields ; Chapter 2. Research integrity dissemination system: "science RIDS of misconduct" ; Chapter 3. Relevance and importance of ethics in post-grad research at South African universities ; Chapter 4. Comparative analysis of the codes of ethics in top universities in Romania ; Chapter 5. The effects of the "publish or perish syndrome" on research and innovation in Nigerian universities: insights from recent research and case studies -- Section 2. Ethics of research with human subjects. Chapter 6. Vulnerability in research: defining, applying, and teaching the concept ; Chapter 7. Addressing research ethics in clinical trials in four of the former communist European countries: a shared responsibility ; Chapter 8. Risk-benefit evaluation in clinical research practice ; Chapter 9. Informed consent in research involving human subjects ; Chapter 10. Personhood, cultural ethics, and biomedical research: African vs. Euro-American perspectives ; Chapter 11. The ethics of risk in psychiatry: the interplay between risk and probability ; Chapter 12. Ethical issues in couple and family research and therapy -- Section 3. Ethical evaluation of technologies and responsibility toward their implications for humankind. Chapter 13. The ethics of embrionic stem cells research: the human being in the early stages of development a "medicine" or an end in itself? ; Chapter 14. Tailoring humans: the ethics of genetic engineering ; Chapter 15. AIRSE: the ethics of artificially intelligent robots and systems ; Chapter 16. White-collar criminals and organizational criminology: theoretical perspectives.