Research Ethics Edited by: Ruth Landau and Gaby Shefler The book Research Ethics, is written by leading researchers from different faculties and departments of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The chapters illuminate various ethical issues in research and their theoretical and practical implications. Among the subjects discussed in the book one can find the human personal rights versus the public`s well being, academic freedom and research financed by industries, ethics of scientific publications, and directions and current trends in research ethics. The book includes also chapters which discuss various applications of research ethics such as psychology, genetics and the use of animals and stem cells for research. In addition, six practical illustrative ethical case examples in research practice are analyzed. The book is a challenging reading for researchers and students in universities and other high education institutes, and for whoever thinks that scientific work should be carried out with responsibility and transparency. Professor Ruth Landau, Chair of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Committee for the Use of Human Subjects in Research, faculty member of the Paul Baerwal School of Social Work and Social Welfare, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, member of the Ethics committee in Sciences and Technologies, Israel National Commission for UNESCO… has widely published in the area of beginning and the end of life issues as well as research ethics […] Professor Gaby Shefler is a clinical psychologist and training-psychoanalyst. He is the chief psychologist of "Herzog-Ezrat Nashim" memorial hospital in Jerusalem, where he is a member of the Ethics and the Helsinki committees… he is the Freud Professor in Psychoanalysis, and the director of the Freud center for psychoanalytic studies and research academic director of Ethics is Psychology at the Mishkenot Sha-Ananim ethics center […]