AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES’ ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES TO THEIR SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES

Ethical responsibilities toward wildlife.

How Do Sports Medicine Doctors Perceive Their Ethical Responsibilities in Prescribing Local Anaesthetic Injections to Athletes?

Introduction: In this study, I aimed to investigate how sports medicine doctors perceive their ethical responsibilities in prescribing local anaesthetic injections (LAI) to athletes. Currently little is known about doctors’ decision-making process in this area, and the use of LAI is considered controversial. Methodology: I conducted 12 semi-structured qualitative interviews with sports medicine...

Ethical Responsibilities of Instructional Design and Technology Discipline

Background and Aim: Generally, where learning and teaching concerns,   instructional technology’s presence had been certain. Instructional technology by having the standards and components of a profession needs ethics. Therefore, as a professional, an instructional technologist has to yield to ethical criteria, knowledge, standards, and appreciate ethical responsibilities in order to succeed. T...

Legal and ethical responsibilities of gamete banks.

In the UK, following many years of consultation and debate, Parliament passed the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act in 1990. This introduced a system of detailed regulation of banks and clinics undertaking the storage and use of gametes and embryos in the UK. The law established the framework for the system and set up the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to implement it ...

General practitioners' responsibilities to their patients.

The views of general practitioners about their responsibilities for patient care have not been canvassed. A survey of general practitioners was therefore carried out to determine their views. A postal questionnaire, in which general practitioners were asked what they saw as their responsibilities, was sent to 525 principals in Avon and completed by 424, giving a response rate of 81%. The doctor...