Recent legislation has made physician practice profiles publicly available in many states of the United States. This paper examines the ethical reasoning underlying such a move. It concludes that, on balance, such an initiative is ethically appropriate and should be followed by other jurisdictions.

Shaub (1994) and Cohen et al. (1998) reported that female accountants and undergraduate accounting students exhibit higher levels of moral reasoning than their male counterparts and that female undergraduates make higher ethical evaluations than their male counterparts. The current study extends these findings in two ways, using data collected from a large sample of professional accountants in ...

How obliged can we be to AI, and how much danger does it pose us? A surprising proportion of our society holds exaggerated fears or hopes for AI, such as the fear of robot world conquest, or the hope that AI will indefinitely perpetuate our culture. These misapprehensions are symptomatic of a larger problem—a confusion about the nature and origins of ethics and its role in society. While AI tec...

This study contributes to the discussion on student perceptions of questionable academic behavior. Students evaluate behavioral scenarios to see whether they judge the behavior as ethical and to examine potential predictors of that judgment. The scenarios used isolate academic integrity decisions that involve the use of IT. The respondents were given items to examine the influence of moral equi...

The emerging neuroscience of psychopathy will have several important implications for our attempts to construct an ethical society. In this article we begin by describing the list of criteria by which psychopaths are diagnosed. We then review four competing neuropsychological theories of psychopathic cognition. The first of these models, Newman’s attentional model, locates the problem in a spec...

Two major ethical theories, the teleological and the deontological, are defined and briefly discussed. A subsequent discussion explores how the ethical principles of informed consent and patient autonomy operate in medical decisions. The application to occupational therapy is left for the reader's judgment.

The public constitutes a major stakeholder in the debate about, and resolution of privacy and ethical issues in Big Data research about human affairs. Thus, scientists must learn to take public concerns about Big Data research seriously and how to communicate messages designed to build trust in specific big data projects and the institution of science in general. This chapter explores the impli...

Preamble The meaning of “ethical” adopted here is one of being in accordance with the accepted rules or standards for right conduct that govern the practice of some profession. The professions we have in mind are statistics and the behavioral sciences, and the standards for ethical practice are what we try to instill in our students through the methodology courses we offer, with particular emph...

The incidence of elderly patients receiving long-term artificial nutrition and hydration via a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding tube is increasing. The wisdom of this practice is debatable when poor quality of life is often the outcome, and this has resulted in a dichotomy of opinions. The legal and ethical implications of withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining nourishment,...

What are the best ways for design teams attend to issues of power, inequity, trust and other ethical concerns as they arise in design? Literature on value-sensitive design (VSD) and technology ethics has advocated for a range of design methods that propose different roles and responsibility for ethics during technology development. This paper explores four provocations that imagine different ro...