From the presumed biological evolutionary origins of a urmorality, there eventually developed a conscious set of morality concepts and rules that became less immediate and more abstract, and increasingly shaped by social factors. Today the concepts and precepts of morality have come to form a complex system in which each specialized professional ethics respond with a certain degree of latitude ...

M y candidates for bold new goals for health-system pharmacy involve ethics, applied sciences, and planning. Ethical obligations My top candidate for a contemporary bold goal for health-system pharmacy is " Instill in practitioners and students a deep sense of pharmacists' ethical obligations to patients and the will to fulfill those obligations. " I nominate this goal because of my sense that ...

The revival of interest for the ethical issues in the library community is related both to the changes brought about by the application of new technologies in libraries and the societal changes taking place in the countries in transition. A survey of five ethical codes of national library associations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro was made and pr...

Since information and communication systems provide the underlying infrastructure of modern society, ethical behaviour by engineers, computer scientists and others working with and developing these systems is central to social stability. At the same time there is a range of increasing pressures and temptations to behave unethically or, at the least, to cut corners. Despite the very welcome deve...

Nursing faculty members have become increasingly concerned with student incidences of cheating and the associated lack of commitment to ethical conduct. Our faculty believed that actively engaging students in the development of specific behavioral guidelines would result in improved ethical conduct and provide a bridge to future professional ethical practice. The authors discuss the use of focu...

This paper emphasizes the need for specific ethical principles for psychodrama and suggests that professional ethics be included and discussed in training programs. As a basis for such discussions, some illustrative examples of ethical dilemmas are described around the following general principles: responsibility, competence, welfare, advertisement, confidentiality, therapeutic relationships an...

Demand among graduate and postdoctoral trainees for international research experience brings together students and investigators from increasingly diverse cultural backgrounds around the world. Educators in research ethics and scientific integrity need to address the cultural aspects of both science and ethics to help all trainees learn ethical practices for effective collaboration with a diver...

For teachers of medical ethics and law, teaching junior doctors is particularly interesting for a number of reasons. First, it reveals starkly the variability in ethical knowledge among doctors. One junior doctor may see no ethical or legal issue in a presented case while another will immediately identify three or four such problems. Second, once the issues are recognised, most junior doctors a...