AI Surveillance during Pandemics: Ethical Implementation Imperatives

Panglobalism and pandemics: ecological and ethical concerns.

A pandemic is a human medical problem but must be understood at multiple levels. Analysis of social and commercial forces is vital, and, more comprehensively, an ecological framework is necessary for an inclusive picture. Ecological health webworked with political and social determinants surrounds issues of human health. In this constellation of both natural and social factors, ethical concerns...

Policing Bench and Bar: Ethical Imperatives

Ethical imperatives of teaching stress control to promote well-being

Global Migrations, Ethical Imperatives for Care, and Transcultural Nursing Research.

#WorldOnTheMove All of the world’s 7.4 billion souls are affected, in some way, by the unprecedented humanmigration occurring everywhere. The United Nations (2016) estimated that, last year, 244 million people were international migrants living in a country other than where they were born, an uptick of 41% from 2000. Internal migration—change of residence within national borders—is difficult to...

Pain in Laboratory Animals: The Ethical and Regulatory Imperatives

The paradoxical goal of much of animal-based biomedical research is to model severe human injuries and illnesses without causing severe pain or distress to the animals. Current public policy in most countries calls for treatment or prevention of laboratory animal pain whenever possible. However, the ‘‘whenever possible’’ provision allows for some intentional infliction of untreated pain in labo...