BACKGROUND Preventive ethics (PE) is a key component of IntegratedEthics (IE), an innovative model developed by the Veterans Health Administration (VA)'s National Center for Ethics in Health Care which establishes a comprehensive, systematic, integrated approach to ethics in health care organizations. Since early 2008, IE has been implemented throughout all 153 medical centers and 21 regional n...

Concern about ethics education in allied health professions has existed for decades. As educators evaluate the prevalence, effectiveness, and outcomes of existing ethics education programs in the allied health professions, the role of ethics education in the moral development of future health care providers remains an important concern.1 Clearly, ethics education in the allied health profession...

This paper argues that ethics education needs to become more reflective about its social and political ethic as it participates in the construction and transmission of medical ethics. It argues for a critical approach to medical ethics and explores the political context in medical schools and some of the peculiar problems in medical ethics education.

The question to be addressed in this paper is: How can the ethics of justice and the ethics of care be used complementary to each other in ethical decision making within the health care team? Various arguments are presented that justify the reasons that the ethics of justice and the ethics of care should be used complementary to each other for effective ethical decision making within the health...

If explicit reasoning about morality promotes moral behavior, as Kohlberg and many ethicists have suggested, then one might expect ethics professors to behave particularly well. However, professional ethicists’ behavior has never been empirically studied. The present research examined the rates at which ethics books are missing from leading academic libraries, compared to other philosophy books...

Since ethical concerns are calling for more attention within Operational Research, we present three approaches to combine Operational Research models with ethics. Our intention is to clarify the trade-offs faced by the OR community, in particular the tension between the scientific legitimacy of OR models (ethics outside OR models) and the integration of ethics within models (ethics within OR mo...

at the aim of explaining the rights of health care recipients and upgrading ethical observance in the field of treatment-the most important field of health care-, the patient's rights charter was declared by ministry of health and medical education to all medical universities in september 2009. this paper provides a report of strategic planning for implementation of patient's rights charter and...

This paper responds to Dr Cassell's requestfor a fuller explanation ofmy argument in the paper, Against medical ethics: a philosopher's view. A distinction is made between two accounts of ethics in general, and the philosophical basis of health work ethics is briefly stated. The implications of applying this understanding of ethics to medical education are

I describe the evolution of my computing ethics course over a fifteen year period. I itemize and justify my rationales for the resources I have added to supplement a standard computing ethics textbook to meet and exceed the ACM curricula recommendations for a computing ethics course. I argue for prioritizing a substantial teaching focus on the nascent discipline of behavioral ethics.

Despite the increasing interest in clinical ethics, ethics consultation as a professional service is still rare in Europe. In this paper I refer to examples in the United States. In Germany, university hospitals and medical faculties are still hesitant about establishing yet another "committee". One of the reasons for this hesitation lies in the ignorance that exists here about how to provide m...