Ethics in the profession

On ethics in the profession of dentistry and dental education.

P rofessional education in dentistry exists to educate good dentists, dentists equipped and committed to helping society gain the benefits of oral health. In achieving this intention, dental educators acknowledge that student dentists must acquire the complex knowledge base and the sophisticated perceptual-motor skills of dentistry. The graduation of knowledgeable and skilled clinicians in dent...

Ethics, advertising and the definition of a profession.

In the climate of concern about high medical costs, the relationship between the trade and professional aspects of medical practice is receiving close scrutiny. In the United Kingdom there is talk of increasing privatisation of health services, and in the United States the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has attempted to define medicine as a trade for the purposes of commercial regulation. The S...

Code of Ethics for the Profession of Dietetics.

Three hundred forty-one dietetics practitioners responded (a 34% response rate) to a 103-item questionnaire that included four subscales. This article focuses on one subscale: assessment of the extent to which dietitians reportedly adhere to the profession's code of ethics as it applies to their own practices. The validity of the survey instrument was confirmed by a panel of experts, and the ov...

A Code of Ethics for the Human-Robot Interaction Profession

As robots transition into human social environments, a new range of technical, ethical, and legal challenges are arising. This paper discusses the unique ethical challenges facing HRI practitioners designing robots for these spaces, and proposes a code of ethics for the profession. We argue that the affordance of all rights and protections ordinarily assumed in human-human interactions apply to...

Code of Ethics for the Health Education profession.