%0 Journal Article
%T Hostage authorship and dirty hands: A reply to Tang
%A Gert Helgesson
%A William B¨¹low
%J Research Ethics
%@ 2047-6094
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1747016119835458
%X In a recent paper published in this journal, we discussed a phenomenon that we referred to as ¡®hostage authorship¡¯. By this we meant a practice where an undeserving person X is included as author on a research paper as the result of a hostage-like situation, where the researchers of the article cannot proceed with their work unless conditions raised by X are fulfilled, including providing an authorship position on the paper. We proposed that this sort of situation occasionally resembles the ¡®problem of dirty hands¡¯ discussed in political science and political philosophy, and that researchers may sometimes be required to ¡®get their hands dirty¡¯ by accepting the request of X. Bor Luen Tang has raised a number of critical remarks to our account. In this paper we address his criticism and defend our original account
%K Dirty hands
%K gift authorship
%K research ethics
%K moral conflict
%K hostage authorship
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1747016119835458