Chinese Clinical Ethicists Accept Physicians’ Benevolent Deception of Patients

Should family physicians accept gifts from patients?

I think it is safe to say that most family physicians have received gifts from patients, even if it was only a box of chocolates, an apple pie, or a bottle of wine. Although only 20% of physicians say they have received gifts,1 it would not surprise me if the opposite were true. Indeed, it is unusual for a family physician not to have accepted gifts of some kind. In fact, several codes of ethic...

Renewing the call for clinical ethicists.

Ethics for Ethicists? The Professionalization of Clinical Ethics Consultation.

Professionalism and codes of ethics are intrinsically tied. As professions establish themselves, their members write codes of ethics to help define the professions and who can be a considered a professional. The codes explain why and how professions are deserving of trust, establish standards with specific guidelines for ethical practice, and designate who will have the authority to enforce sta...

Do Ethicists Steal 1 RUNNING HEAD: Do Ethicists Steal More Books? Do Ethicists Steal More Books?

If explicit reasoning about morality promotes moral behavior, as Kohlberg and many ethicists have suggested, then one might expect ethics professors to behave particularly well. However, professional ethicists’ behavior has never been empirically studied. The present research examined the rates at which ethics books are missing from leading academic libraries, compared to other philosophy books...

Benevolent Agents