Tackling socially determined dental inequalities: ethical aspects of Childsmile, the national child oral health demonstration programme in Scotland [PDF]
, 2009 Many ethical issues are posed by public health interventions, including whether they ought to be aimed at improving health across society or reducing specific health inequalities, whether they should be targeted or universal and the issue of which ...
Conway, D., Macpherson, L., Shaw, D.
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Multi-agent utility theory for ethical conflict resolution
Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2002 In this paper we try to construct a two-attribute group disutility function for two conflicting decision makers, taking into account the property of utility independence and/or convex dependence between them.
Hiroyuki Tamura
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A philosophical outlook on potential conflicts between planetary protection, astrobiology and commercial use of space [PDF]
, 2019 The aim of this chapter is to use philosophy and, in particular ethical theory, to identify and explore some potential ...
Persson, Erik
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The patient suicide attempt – An ethical dilemma case study
International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 2015 Case description: Nurses face more and more ethical dilemmas during their practice nowadays, especially when they are taking care of the patient at end of life stage. The case study demonstrates an ethical dilemma when nursing staff are taking care of an
Lin Jie
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Economic Decision-Making and Ethical Choice [PDF]
, 2008 Some economists, notably Gary Becker, claim that economic analysis is applicable to any decision, ethical or otherwise. Ethical principles within Objectivist Ethics are based on long-range success— life being the measure of success.
Touchstone, Kathleen
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Biomedical Ethics and Ethical Theories
Korean Journal of Medical Ethics, 1998 By the mid-1960s, there has been a consensus among English-speaking philosophers as to the role of philosophy: Analytic philosophers and logical positivists widely agreed that philosophy has nothing to say about practical moral issues. However, moral philosophers began to recognize their role in diverse fields; in particular, medicine and health-care.
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A Comparison of the Metaphysical Egoism of ʿAllāma Ṭabāṭabāʾī With Egoistic Theories in Ethics [PDF]
آموزههای فلسفه اسلاميThe discussion of egoism versus altruism, or benevolence, is a significant topic in contemporary ethical philosophy. Egoism is categorized into psychological egoism and ethical egoism. From the perspective of psychological egoism, as a descriptive theory,
Ḥamīd Ḥassanī, Donyā Ḥamīdī
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Values ethics and legal ethics: the QLD and LETR recommendations 6, 7, 10, and 11 [PDF]
, 2014 The LETR Report recommended increased attention to ethics and values and to critical thinking. These aims could be achieved jointly through teaching ethical thinking: not as theory but as part of developing the capacity for ethical conduct.
Ferris, G
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Ethics, Morality, and Game Theory [PDF]
Games, 2018 Ethics is a field in which the gap between words and actions looms large. Game theory and the empirical methods it inspires look at behavior instead of the lip service people sometimes pay to norms. We believe that this special issue comprises several illustrations of the fruitful application of this approach to ethics.
Mark Alfano, Hannes Rusch, Matthias Uhl
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Ethics and Mind Theory in Stich's Philosophy; Moral Psychology and Cognitive Sciences United
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2014 Stephen Stich is one of the most outstanding psychologist and philosophers in the both ethics and mind fields. He merged psychological and philosophical traditions into one and became the source of many studies in moral psychology and philosophy of mind.
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