Promises and Conflicting Obligations

Social Norms Versus Social Responsibility: Punishing Transgressions under Conflicting Obligations

Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author. Acknowledgments We thank Nicholas P. Lovrich and the Division of Government Studies and Services at Washington State University for the opportunity to work wit...

Consent for organ donation--balancing conflicting ethical obligations.

n engl j med 358;12 www.nejm.org march 20, 2008 1209 the number of organs needed and the supply, clinicians have an ethical obligation to help ensure that the desires of people who want to donate organs are respected. The Department of Health and Human Services took up this challenge in 2003, when it collaborated with leading transplantation organizations to launch the Breakthrough Collaborativ...

Patient and physician autonomy: conflicting rights and obligations in the physician-patient relationship.

In sum, beneficence and autonomy must be mutually re-enforcing if the patient's good is to be served, if the physician's ability to serve that good is not to be compromised, and if the physician's moral claim to autonomy and the integrity of the whole enterprise of medical ethics are to be respected.

Does Anse Bundren Love His Wife? Gifts, Promises, and Obligations in As I Lay Dying

Promises, promises.

In the target article I argued that cognitive neuropsychologists have increasingly deviated from the original goals and methods of the subject. In this reply to the commentators, I argue that future progress using neuropsychological approaches to understanding behaviour is most likely to be made by the use of converging sources of evidence that are garnered by an interdisciplinary methodology. ...