Symbiotic empirical ethics: a practical methodology.

Empirical research in medical ethics: How conceptual accounts on normative-empirical collaboration may improve research practice

BACKGROUND The methodology of medical ethics during the last few decades has shifted from a predominant use of normative-philosophical analyses to an increasing involvement of empirical methods. The articles which have been published in the course of this so-called 'empirical turn' can be divided into conceptual accounts of empirical-normative collaboration and studies which use socio-empirical...

Evidence-based ethics – What it should be and what it shouldn't

BACKGROUND The concept of evidence-based medicine has strongly influenced the appraisal and application of empirical information in health care decision-making. One principal characteristic of this concept is the distinction between "evidence" in the sense of high-quality empirical information on the one hand and rather low-quality empirical information on the other hand. In the last 5 to 10 ye...

Equitable Selection of Subjects: Equality Versus Fairness?

Development and validation of an instrument to measure online retailing ethics

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the dimensions of e-retailing ethics from the consumers’ perspective and to develop a reliable and valid measurement instrument. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a quantitative survey conducted among Egyptian consumers aged 18 and above. These were measured on a five-point Likert scale. The reliability and validity of this si...

The Science and Ethics of Causal Modeling

The intrinsic schism between causal and associational relations presents profound ethical and methodological problems to researchers in the social and behavioral sciences, ranging from the statement of a problem, to the implementation of a study, to the reporting of finding. This paper describes a causal modeling framework that mitigates these problems and offers a simple, yet formal and princi...