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Ethical theory, codes of ethics and IS practice
Information Systems Journal, 1996Ethical issues, with respect to computer‐based information systems, are important to the individual IS practitioner. These same issues also have an important impact on the moral well‐being of organizations and societies. Considerable discussion has taken place in the Information Systems (IS) literature on specific ethical issues, but there is little ...
Geoff Walsham
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British Journal of Perioperative Nursing (United Kingdom), 2002
Nurses are daily faced with questions of ethics. Most of these questions are minor, everyday issues that individual nurses can resolve on their own, without the need for involvement of their colleagues, and with no, or few, implications for patient care. From time to time, however, issues with major implications for patient care will arise that require
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Nurses are daily faced with questions of ethics. Most of these questions are minor, everyday issues that individual nurses can resolve on their own, without the need for involvement of their colleagues, and with no, or few, implications for patient care. From time to time, however, issues with major implications for patient care will arise that require
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Brief Introduction to Ethics and Ethical Theory
2012Objectives Explain how the terms ethics and morality refer to a family of related concepts. Identify a variety of common sources of moral guidance and authority. Describe several approaches to ethics and explain the value of ethical discourse (a systematic approach to ethics). Use an ethical theory and its associated methods to
D. Micah Hester, Toby Schonfeld
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On Using Ethical Theories to Teach Engineering Ethics
Science and Engineering Ethics, 2007Many engineering ethics classes and textbooks introduce theories such as utilitarianism and Kantianism (and most others draw from these theories without mentioning them explicitly). Yet using ethical theories to teach engineering ethics is not devoid of difficulty. First, their status is unclear (should one pick a single theory or use them all? does it
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Ethical Theories and Computer Ethics
2009The development of cybernetics and digital computers prompted the need for a greater exploration of computer ethics. Information ethics, as described by Floridi and Sanders (2003), offers a conceptual basis for such an exploration. This chapter provides an historical perspective on the development of a foundation for the study of computer ethics.
Matthew Charlesworth, David Sewry
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Ethical Theory and Utilitarianism
1982Abstract MORAL philosophy is now in a phase which must seem curious to anybody who has observed its course since, say, the 1940s. During all that time moral philosophers of the analytic tradition have devoted most of their work to fundamental questions about the analysis or the meaning of the moral words and the types of reasoning that ...
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Ethical Theory and Medical Ethics
2000Abstract In both popular and professional language, the terms moral and ethical are used in several senses. Public officials are sometimes guilty of “unethical” behavior, while people who violate a law dealing with sexual activity are arrested on “morals” charges.
John M Freeman, Kevin Mcdonnell
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