The SEPs Debate and Surrounding Issues: Part -IV

The Ethical Debate Surrounding RFID

Radio BLOCKINfrequency BLOCKINidentification BLOCKIN(RFID) BLOCKINis BLOCKINa BLOCKINgeneric term that is used to describe a system that transmits the identity of an object or person wirelessly using radio waves (RFID Journal, 2005). It falls under the broad category of automatic BLOCKINidentifica-tion technologies. RFID tags, in the simplest of terms, are " intelligent chips that can be embedd...

Premenstural Syndrome: the Debate Surrounding Criminal Defense

Philosophical Issues in Medicine and Psychiatry, Part IV

This article, the last in a 4-part series on philosophical problems in conventional and integrative medicine, focuses on problems related to deriving methodologies for identifying integrative assessment and treatment approaches. Methodologies used to verify claims made for a particular conventional or nonconventional approach can be regarded as empirically derived, consensus-based, or intuitive...

Medico-legal issues surrounding medical countermeasures used in the Gulf War--part 1.

When the multinational force deployed to the Gulf after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, military intelligence assessed the Iraqi's as possessing and being capable of using weapons of mass destruction. There was judged to be a real threat that chemical weapons, especially nerve agents, and certain biological weapons would be used. Coalition countries attempted to reduce the effects by the use...

The Ethical Issues Surrounding Wi-Fi

Introduction In examining wireless-internet technologies (Wi-Fi), several ethical issues are exposed. While the unauthorized use of Wi-Fi is illegal in a few select cases, what is considered permissible still varies from state to state. What does not vary, however, is the fact that individuals are going to great lengths to locate unsecured wireless access points whether it is for their own bene...