PROFESSIONAL GRADES AND DUTIES.

Duties to rescue: individual, professional and institutional.

Clinicians and researchers can often rescue patients or research participants from serious harms. Indeed, they often have a duty to do so—a duty to rescue. Duties to rescue are frequently discussed in the medical ethics literature, but according to Tina Rulli and Joseph Millum they are under-theorised and more problematic than is normally acknowledged. Rulli and Millum outline two widely discus...

Professional development for prospective epidemiology teachers in grades 6-12.

Address correspondence to: Mark A. Kaelin, EdD, College of Education and Human Services, Montclair State University, University Hall-4201, 1 Normal Ave., Montclair, NJ 07043; tel. 973-6 -7123; fax 973-6 -4337; e-mail . “I have to think about why anyone would want to remember particular pieces of information. What does this fact help you understand? What problems does...

Rights and Duties

Evolutionary Computation: Challenges and duties

Evolutionary Computation (EC) is now a few decades old. The impressive development of the field since its initial conception has made it one of the most vigorous research areas, specifically from an applied viewpoint. This should not hide the existence of some major gaps in our understanding on these techniques. In this essay we propose a number of challenging tasks that –according to our opini...

Conflicting clinical duties.

The first three articles in the Clinical Ethics section of this issue of Journal of Medical Ethics address potential conflicting duties of physicians. The first paper, by Niklas Juth and Niels Lynöe (see page 215, Editor’s choice), reports results of an empirical study of Swedish physicians’ attitudes regarding the provision of virginity certificates or hymen restorations requested by women, of...