Dial ‘E’ for ethics

Ethics and e-medicine.

Protecting against Dial-in Hazards: E-mail and Data Communications

PROBLEMS ADDRESSED With the advent of nomadic and home office environments, remote access security is once again taking its place at the forefront of security planning activities. Everyone wants an Internet presence and Internet access. Telecommuting is gaining in popularity. Sales agents armed with laptops roam the countryside. Opening up systems to casual access by nomadic and home office wor...

The Ethics of e-Medicine

‘E-medicine’, i.e. the possibilities for patients to have access to medical information and medical consultation at Internet raises new ethical issues. In this paper e-medicine is discussed in terms of how it will affect the patient-doctor-relation, patient autonomy and the moral and professional responsibility of doctors.

e-Government Ethics : a Synergy of Computer Ethics, Information Ethics, and Cyber Ethics

Ethics has become an important part in the interaction among humans being. This paper specifically discusses applied ethics as one type of ethics. There are three applied ethics that will be reviewed in this paper, i.e. computer ethics, information ethics, and cyber ethics. There are two aspects of the three applied ethics that were reviewed, i.e. their definition and the issues associated with...

Aging: Dial M for Mitochondria

A major goal of aging research is to identify interventions that prolong lifespan in distantly related organisms. In recent years, genetic studies in both nematodes and rodents have reported that moderate inactivation of genes important for mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) function can promote longevity. We performed an RNAi screen to probe the role of ETC components in modulating l...