title: Against abuse of digital photography techniques in morphology--Ethical Code of Slovak Anatomical Society.
abstract: Digital graphical methods allow extensive manipulation of pictures literally beyond any limits. By such methods, it is possible to change original information obtained by morphological observation, even to fraudulently produce distorted results or forgeries. For this reason, basic rules were proposed defining what is allowed and what is not accepted during picture processing. These rules were discussed and approved by a plenary meeting of Slovak Anatomical Society on September 9th, 2007 under the name Ethical Code of Slovak Anatomical Society. We call on all potential authors of publications and dissertation works to obey the rules of Ethical Code of Slovak Anatomical Society and thus to prevent any doubts which may arise about the faithfulness of published materials in morphological or other disciplines, which use a picture as an evidence or illustration means (Fig. 3). Full Text (Free, PDF) www.bmj.sk.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Comenius University, Faculty of Medicine, Bratislava, Slovakia. mraz.peter@fmed.uniba.sk
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mraz
mesh_terms: D000715:Anatomy; D032781:Codes of Ethics; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000941:ethics*; D010781:Photography / Q000941:ethics*; D015871:Scientific Misconduct; D018154:Slovakia