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Coupled ethical-epistemic analysis in teaching ethics

Communications of the ACM, 2015
Critical reflection on value choices.
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Sham Surgery: An Ethical Analysis

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2003
Surgical clinical trials have seldom used a "sham" or placebo surgical procedure as a control, owing to ethical concerns. Recently, several ethical commentators have argued that sham surgery is either inherently or presumptively unethical. In this article I contend that these arguments are mistaken and that there are no sound ethical reasons for an ...
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Ethics and Ethical Analysis

2010
This chapter builds upon Chap. 1 in setting up the philosophical framework and analysis tools for discussing moral theories and problems in ethical relativism. We discusses the moral and ethical premises and their corresponding values in the changing technology arena.
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Expanding the Ethical Analysis of Biobanks

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2005
Biobanks are repositories of human biological materials collected for biomedical research. There are over 300 million stored specimens in the United States, and the number grows by 20 million per year. In the post-genome world of high throughput gene sequencing and computational biology, biobanks hold the promise of facilitating large-scale research ...
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Situation ethics and transactional analysis

Journal of Religion & Health, 1976
It is the purpose of this paper to establish an analogy between two separate but related fields of human behavior: situation ethics and transactional analysis. Situation ethics as a concept is somewhat more heterogeneous than it appears at first glance. Nevertheless it finds its clearest modern proponent in John Fletcher.
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Nursing Diagnosis: An Ethical Analysis

Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 1991
The ethical consequences of nursing diagnosis in light of the principle “to do no harm” have not been adequately explored. It is proposed that human suffering is created through nursing actions that objectively judge and reduce human beings and their complex relationships with the world.
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Content analysis of holistic ethics

Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 2005
Although biomedical ethical principles are appropriate to evaluate the practice of conventional or Western medicine, they may not be appropriate to evaluate the practice of complementary therapies (CTs) because the world view of CTs has different goats than those of Western medicine.
Sylvia M, Kubsch, Christine, Hankerson, Raschid, Ghoorahoo   +2 more
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Ethical analysis in public health

The Lancet, 2002
Public-health regularly encounters serious ethical dilemmas, such as rationing scarce resources, influencing individuals to change their behaviour, and limiting freedom to diminish disease transmission. Yet unlike medical ethics, there is no agreed-upon framework for analysing these difficulties. We offer such a framework.
Marc J, Roberts, Michael R, Reich
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Ethical Analysis of the Concept of Disability

Mental Retardation, 2004
The concept of disability from an ethical viewpoint was examined. Whether disability results from the way society is built and the way ideas and judgments considering disability are established in a communal interaction was discussed (i.e., is disability socially created and constructed?).
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The Ethical Foundations of Risk Analysis

Risk Analysis, 2018
AbstractIn the field of risk analysis, the normative value systems underlying accepted methodology are rarely explicitly discussed. This perspective provides a critique of the various ethical frameworks that can be used in risk assessments and risk management decisions.
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