To Tell or Not to Tell? the Ethical Dilemma of the Would-Be Whistleblower

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To Tell or Not to Tell? The Ethical

Dilemma of the Would-Be Whistleblower

Janet Malek Ph.D. a

a Department of Medical Humanities, Brody School of Medicine, East

Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

Available online: 11 May 2010

To cite this article: Janet Malek Ph.D. (2010): To Tell or Not to Tell? The Ethical Dilemma of the

Would-Be Whistleblower, Accountability in Research, 17:3, 115-129

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