The Practice of Ethical Precepts: Dissecting Decision-Making by Lawyers

Ethical Decision-Making in Clinical Nutritional Practice

Ethics requires a critical evaluation of assumptions and arguments about norms and values; what should be done and what should not. Practitioners should practice ethically, and the professions should be at the forefront of applied ethics. There are four principles, patient autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice, which are guides to ethical dayto-day practice. Patient autonomy: auton...

Ethical decision making by British general practitioners.

General practitioners in England and Wales were sent a questionnaire asking how they would handle the ethical problems posed by six case vignettes and their reasons for their decisions. The ethical problems included: how much information to divulge to patients, how extensively a physician should become involved in the lifestyles of patients and how to deal with a possible family problem. The va...

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The Ethical Dangers of Deliberative Decision Making

This project benefited from the financial assistance of the Dispute Resolution Research Center at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. I want to thank Stéphane Côté, Sanford DeVoe, Adam Galinsky, Julian House, Keith Murnighan, Brendan Strejcek, and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive and insightful comments on early versions of this manuscript. The ...

The Use of Evidence by Decision-Making Committees