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The Ethics of Teaching Ethics

The Hastings Center Report, 1990
Recently, some state boards of professional licensure have begun to turn to ethicists for assistance in evaluating the behavior of professionals against whom complaints of unethical conduct have been brought. In the following case, a state board has made it a condition of a health professional's reinstatement that he take a course in medical ethics ...
M E, Waithe, D T, Ozar
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Ethics and OR: Operationalising discourse ethics [PDF]

European Journal of Operational Research, 2011
Operational researchers help managers decide what they ought to do and yet this is generally evaluated in terms of efficiency or effectiveness, not ethicality. However, the combination of the tremendous power of global corporations and the financial markets, and the problems the world faces in terms of economic and environmental sustainability, has led
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Ethics, applied Ethics, professional Ethics

Pflege, 2001
In der Studie «Der Bekanntheitsgrad berufsethischer Grundregeln innerhalb der Berufsgruppe der Pflegenden»1 wird die Kodifizierung berufsethischer Normen als eine zu durchlaufende Stufe zu einer eigenständigen Pflegeethik verstanden. Bei der im Rahmen der Studie durchgeführten Befragung finden die Autoren/-innen heraus, dass der Bekanntheitsgrad in ...
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The Ethics of Doing Ethics

Science and Engineering Ethics, 2016
Ethicists have investigated ethical problems in other disciplines, but there has not been much discussion of the ethics of their own activities. Research in ethics has many ethical problems in common with other areas of research, and it also has problems of its own.
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Nursing Ethics, Physician Ethics, and Medical Ethics

Law, Medicine and Health Care, 1981
The term “nursing ethics” is controversial. Some insist that nursing ethics is a unique field posing issues that cannot be understood fully by adapting the professional ethics of physicians. They insist that the term “nursing ethics” connotes the uniqueness of the moral problems that nurses face in the health care setting.On the other hand, others ...
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Applied Ethics, Applying Ethics and the Methods of Ethics

1994
The subject of my paper are the methodological questions of applied ethics. In order to address this problem, we should clarify, in the first place, what it is that is called applied or practical ethics. The latter expression may appear a bit curious, indeed, for it might seem to suggest that there is an ethics which has nothing to do with practical ...
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Business Ethics as Personal Ethics

2016
Business ethics is a major issue for most, if not all companies. This paper attempts a clarification of the composite of forces and influences involved in the business ethics world. Its performance is then assessed, resulting in a relative failure of the huge efforts of the business world in recent decades, as the public doubts the moral sincerity of ...
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Ethics committees: an ethical dilemma

BMJ, 2011
The year before we married we lived in sin, just outside Sunderland. We attempted to cook. The results were half baked, half cooked, and half eaten. Spitting food out, although not classic table etiquette, was common. But in our darkest hour we were saved by the supreme being, Delia Smith.
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Ethics Consultation: Whose Ethics?

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2007
Fox et al. (2007) provide important information on the status of ethical consultation in American hospitals.
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The ethics of complexity and the complexity of ethics

South African Journal of Philosophy, 2012
In this paper, we investigate the implications that a general view of complexity - i.e. the view that complex phenomena are irreducible - hold for our understanding of ethics. In this view, ethics should be conceived of as constitutive of knowledge and identity, rather than as a normative system that dictates right action.
Minka Woermann, Paul Cilliers
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