Evaluating the practice of ethical review by Research Ethics Committees (REC) could help protect the interests of human participants and promote scientific progress. To facilitate such evaluations, we conducted an ethnographic study of how an REC reviews research proposals during its meetings. We observed 13 meetings of a Dutch REC and studied REC documents. We coded this material inductively a...

Ethics committees are the most important practical instrument of clinical ethics in Belgium and fulfil three tasks: the ethical review of experimental protocols, advising on the ethical aspects of healthcare practice, and ethics consultation. In this article the authors examine the current situation of ethics committees in Belgium from the perspective of clinical ethics. Firstly, the most impor...

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Using Functional Measurement (Anderson, 2008), Frileux, Lelièvre, Muñoz Sastre, Mullet, and Sorum (2003) examined the joint impact of several key factors on lay people’s judgments of the acceptability of physicians’ interventions to end patients’ lives. The level of acceptability was high, and the information integration rule that best described the participants’ judgments was Acceptability = P...

Decision making-process in conservation can be very complex, having to deal with various value dimensions and potential conflicts. In fact, conflicts competing interests between stakeholders are among the most quoted reasons for failure of projects. Ethical analysis helpful this regard. paper we present a revision Matrix specifically tailored decision-making processes conservation. The is conce...

Purpose This paper explores the moderating effects of four personal cultural orientations or PCOs (independence, interdependence, risk aversion and ambiguity intolerance) on relationships among counterfeit proneness, subjective norms, ethical judgments, product evaluation purchase intentions for products. Design/methodology/approach A field study with 840 consumers in Hong Kong using a self-adm...

mal notion through an integration of three critical psychological insights of the past century. We begin with Simon's own insight of bounded rationality, continue with subsequent insights offered in the work of Kahneman and Tversky regarding deviations from rationality, and then consider what we know today about the limitations of the conscious mind. In our assessment, these three literatures t...

• Deception is sometimes perceived to be ethical. • Prosocial liars are perceived to be more moral than honest individuals. • Benevolence may be more important than honesty for judgments of moral character. • The moral principle of care is sometimes more important than justice. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o We demonstrate that some lies are perceived to be more ethical than honest state...

concurrently, organizations must respond effectively to social expectations and moral law and to achieve success in all areas and by respecting professional ethics adopt an appropriate procedure to achieve these expectations align with organizational goals to facilitates promotion of social accountability and realization of higher goals. in this study, we have formulated a framework by reviewin...