my purpose in this article is not to offer any original insights into hegel’s ethics, but merely to provide a brief overview that draws upon the most reliable secondary sources. in order to help organize the material, i compare hegel’s views with the communitarian critique of liberalism. following this, there is a brief account of the relation between hegel’s ethical and religious thought. hege...

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From the conception of HTA in the 1970s it has been argued that addressing ethical issues is an element of HTA, and many methods for integrating ethics in HTA have become available. However, despite almost 40 years with repeated intentions, only few HTA reports include ethical analysis. Why is this so? How come, ethics is a constituent part of HTA, there are many methods available, but ethics i...

Implication for health policy makers/practice/research/medical education: This editorial emphasizes the importance of abiding by universal protocols of medical ethics when undertaking clinical research. As a researcher with several affiliations and commitments , I am often asked to assess clinical research studies , and approve student dissertation proposals prior to their initiation. One of th...

Conventional agriculture is the currently leading production method to grow crops in the western hemisphere. Long-term sustainability of the system and all the components is secondary to producing high yields each growing season, which leads to issues such as erosion and reduced soil quality. Other agricultural production methods such as permaculture aim to build soil and improve quality every ...

Heightened by emerging web-based technologies through which it has become easier for anyone to engage in illegal or unethical appropriation and use another’s personal information, the debate is ongoing concerning how best to teach ethics in order to maximize its impact on learners. Currently, ethics is taught through a variety of methods using various resources. This quasi-experimental study ex...

This paper engages with the question of what it is to 'do good medical ethics' in two ways. It begins with an exploration of what it might mean to say that health professionals practise good medical ethics as part of practising good ethical medicine. Using the example of the Genethics Club, a well-established national ethics forum for genetics professionals in the UK, the paper develops an acco...

Introduction Corporate codes of ethics are one of several influenc es on business ethics within and across cultures. In a model that goes beyond philosophically-based ethics, Stajkovic and Luthans (1 997) use social-cognitive theory as a springboard to identify factors influe ncing business ethics standards and conduct. They propose that a person’s perception of ethical sta ndards and subsequen...

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