Background: Professional ethics as a branch of ethical knowledge examines ethical assignments in a profession and its ethical issues and seeks to provide ways and guidelines that determine these assignments for individuals and professional groups. The overall purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of professional ethics training on job involvement and organizational commitment...

The paper examines the influence of health care reform on medical professional ethics. In order to illustrate this influence two cases are discussed. Bases on these cases, I question whether the government deliberately aimed at changing the medical professional ethics. An analysis of authoritative policy documents shows that the government requires doctors to perform three roles: the statesman,...

The role of research ethics committees (RECs) is currently strained by increases in the number of protocols that are in need of review, the scientific and funding complexities of the protocols, and a lack of clear standards for ethics assessment. This commentary describes the significance of these strains and calls for clarification of reviewer accountability. To maintain or, in many cases, to ...

As a subject of education, Ethics in Engineering is very different from other topics in engineering curricula. Students find it difficult to see how an ethics course could improve their engineering skills. Therefore, it is important to keep the ethics courses closely connected with their engineering education. One practical approach that might stimulate the interest of students is to start with...

The paper suggests that professional ethics might benefit from consideration of the ideas of Carl Jung (1875–1961) regarding wholeness instead of goodness as the goal of the integrated psyche. The whole self then becomes the basis for ethics in contrast to the idealtypical self at the heart of many approaches to professional ethics. It looks briefly at current debates into the legitimacy of pro...

An ethics of permission can be helpful in framing a response to the ethical differences surrounding the California End of Life Option Act. Law does not define morality, and reaching a moral understanding demands thorough reflection. An ethics of permission examines the ethical demands of a permissive law for both clinician and patient. Serving the good of the patient, respecting professional co...

Voluntary guidelines on ‘ethical practices’ have been the response by stakeholders to address growing concern over harmful social consequences of artificial intelligence and digital technologies. Issued dozens actors from industry, government professional associations, are creating a consensus core standards principles for ethical design, development deployment (AI). Using human rights (equalit...

Ethical codes such as CASLPA's Canon of Ethics ensure that clients' rights are protected over and above what is simply prescribed by law. However, ethical dilemmas often arise in everyday practice for which the canon does not provide specific guidance. For example, is there a moral cost to the quest towards acquiring a better voice or dialect, or "reducing" one's accent? Four principles of clin...