The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs The qualitative longitudinal case history: practical, method ological and ethical reflections Journal Article How to cite: Thomson, Rachel (2007). The qualitative longitudinal case history: practical, methodological and ethical reflections. Social Policy and Society, 6(4), pp. 571–582.

Familiar laws of physics are applied to study human relations, modelled by their world lines (worldlines) combined with social networks. We focus upon the simplest, basic element any society: a married couple, stable due dynamic balance between attraction and repulsion. By building worldlines (worldsheets), we arrive at two-level coordinate systems: one describing behaviour string-like binary s...

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Teaching ethics for undergraduate medical students provides an excellent opportunity to equip them with essential skills to deal with ethical dilemmas that they may face in their future career. Teaching bioethics is challenging for clinical teachers. The current study reports on one of the assignments in which the students present a real case with analysis of the relevant ethical issues. Each s...

The studies reported in Chapters 3, 4, and 6 highlight how individuals across different contexts differ in their implicit assumptions, beliefs, and expectations about what ethical leadership should entail. As argued in Chapter 2, such differences in implicit theories of ethical leadership (IELT) may lead to variability in how these individuals perceive and understand the characteristics and beh...

background: research in reproductive health (rh) has been located in the core of women’s health research. providing accurate information through conducting scientific and controlled research is essential, but increased number of research in the world especially in developing countries in rh area in order to introduce advanced technologies has been resulted in much unethical, illegal and abusive...

[cited on 2008 Mar 28]. Available from: http://www. publicationethics.org/. 3. World Association of Medical Editors. [cited on 2008 Mar 28]. Available from: http://www.wame.org/. 4. Miller FG, Rosenstein DL. Reporting of ethical issues in publications of medical research. Lancet 2002;360:1326-8. 5. Bavdekar SB, Gogtay NJ, Wagh S. Reporting ethical processes in two indian pediatric journals. Ind...

BACKGROUND Although adaptation and proper biological functioning require developmental programming, pollutant interference can cause developmental toxicity or DT. OBJECTIVES This commentary assesses whether it is ethical for citizens/physicians/scientists to allow avoidable DT. METHODS Using conceptual, economic, ethical, and logical analysis, the commentary assesses what major ethical theo...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the scientific background to the current ethical and legislative debates about the generation and use of human stem cells, and to give an overview of the ethical issues underlying these debates. The ethical issues discussed are 1) stem cells and the status of the embryo, 2) women as the sources of ova for stem cell production, 3) the use of ova from othe...