A Historian’s Ethical Duty

Health professionals have an ethical duty...

Does a Journal Have an Ethical Monitoring Duty?

Research and ethics are inseparable. Based on abhorrent research abuses under the cloak of scientific enquiry, development of the process for the ethical overview of research on/with humans was undertaken. By the end of the twentieth century, sufficient and extensive local and international principles, guidelines, legislations, and treaties about research on humans were in place, with all human...

The Relationship Between the Organization\'s Ethical Reputation and Ethical Biology on Employee Moral Duty: Mediating Role of Beneficial Ethics

Background: Ethical validity and ethics of biology is still one of the challenges of today's organizations because efficiency and effectiveness of these two factors are important so managers need to take it seriously so that they can divert employees from unethical practices by portraying useful ethics. And instead help them to do ethical duties. Based on this necessity, the present study aimed...

Do aid agencies have an ethical duty to comply with researchers? A response to Rennie.

Medical AID organisations such as Médecins Sans Frontières receive several requests from individuals and international academic institutions to conduct research at their implementation sites in Africa. Do AID agencies have an ethical duty to comply with research requests? In this paper we respond to the views and constructed theories (albeit unfounded) of one such researcher, whose request to c...

Open Source's Lessons for Historians

Of all the developments in the recent history of computing , none has attracted such widespread attention as the emergence of the open-source software movement. In part, this is due to the remarkable successes of such open-source projects as Linux, Sendmail, and Apache. Versions of the GNU/Linux operating system are used by 40 percent of large American corporations, 65 percent of the world's We...