This paper examines the effects of environmental factors on the ethical behavior of managers using computers at work in Mainland China. In this study, environmental factors refer to senior management, peer groups, company policies, professional practices, and legal considerations. Ethical behaviors include attitudes to disclosure, protection of privacy, conflict of interest, personal conduct, s...

Regulatory Compliance is critical for pharmaceutical and medical devices industry. Compliance is a legal requirement mandated by the regulatory agencies such as US FDA and EMEA. Compliance also makes good business sense – being compliant helps improve business results as it instills a culture of quality and accountability in the organization. Most importantly, compliance is the right (ethical) ...

OBJECTIVE When a patient dies a short time after radionuclide therapy, several issues arise due to the shifting of responsibility from patient care to protection of the public, while respecting societal values and rites. Such a situation occurred in our institution after administering a large therapeutic dose of 131I for metastatic thyroid cancer. The requirements of safe practice, the shift ac...

Current trends in humanitarian accountability are unpacked through the examination of an system put place after 2010 monsoon floods Pakistan. Humanitarian accountability, when narrowly understood as a technical and procedural tool, can undermine local self-advocacy efforts, silence community dissent supress broader equity claims. Reframing political ethical project inspire innovation, support f...

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...

When the human element is introduced into decision support system design, entirely new layers of social and ethical issues emerge but are not always recognized as such. This paper discusses those ethical and social impact issues specific to decision support systems and highlights areas that interface designers should consider during design with an emphasis on military applications. Because of t...

In the editorial published in this journal, Daniels and colleagues argue that his and Sabin’s accountability for reasonableness (A4R) framework should be used to handle ethical issues in the health technology assessment (HTA)-process, especially concerning fairness. In contrast to this suggestion, it is argued that such an approach risks suffering from the irrrelevance or insufficiency they war...

Formal clinical ethics review first developed in the USA and most hospitals there have structures in place. This is often a clinical ethics committee. Developments have been slower in the UK, where there has been uncertainty and variability about the role of clinical ethics committees. Even in the USA, their exact role is uncertain. Although we now have a good idea of the mechanisms for ethical...

Research ethics review is an important process, designed to protect participants in medical research. However, it is increasingly criticised for failing to meet its aims. Here, two researchers reflect on their experiences of applying for ethical approval of observational research in clinical settings. They highlight some problems faced by reviewers and researchers and propose a two-stage ethica...