An oath for geoscientists
The Italian Commission of Geoethics, inside the Italian Federation of Earth Sciences,
is working on an oath for geoscientists.
The members of the Commission think that
the introduction of an ethical code of conduct that follows the example of the
Hippocratic Oath for physicians could help geoscientists to acquire binding
awareness of their professional and social responsibilities.
For more information,
read the paper (download at: http://www.iapg.geoethics.org/pub/6030.pdf), in the Special Issue on Geoethics by Annals of Geophysics, Vol. 55 (2012):
A Hippocratic Oath for geologists?
Ruggero Matteucci (1),
Guido Gosso (2), Silvia Peppoloni (3), Sandra Piacente (4), Janusz Wasowski (5)
1) Università di Roma
"La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Rome, Italy
2) Università Statale
di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra "A. Desio", Milan,
Italy
3) Istituto Nazionale
di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
4) Università di
Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Modena, italy
5) Istituto di Ricerca
per la Protezione Idrogeologica, Consorzio nazionale della Ricerca (CNR), Bari,
Italy
