This article is amedicalethics opinion piece regarding the historical and questionable exercise of medical assisted suicide. As this a practice involving significant debate over many years, opinions those who follow divine-led path should be voiced with cognition. Thoughts are expressed specifiedconcerning ethicality morality humanly facilitating Gods plans life expectancy for individuals. It n...

We explored how the perspective through which individuals view their actions influences their ethicality, comparing a narrow perspective that allows for evaluation of each choice in isolation, to a broad perspective that promotes an aggregate view of one’s choices. To examine unethical behavior we employed a computerized variation of a trivia game that challenges the player’s integrity because,...

This research describes, classifies, and comparatively evaluates national models and mechanisms used to evaluate research and allocate research funding in 16 countries. Although these models and mechanisms vary widely in terms of how research is evaluated and financed, nearly all share the common characteristic of relating funding to some measure of past performance. Each of these 16 national m...

In a recent paper, Levy, Gadd, Kerridge, and Komesaroff attempt to defend the ethicality of homeopathy by attacking the utilitarian ethical framework as a basis for medical ethics and by introducing a distinction between evidence-based medicine and modern science. This paper demonstrates that their argumentation is not only insufficient to achieve that goal but also incorrect. Utilitarianism is...

This article contributes to debates about the ethicality of foodbanks, a pervasive element UK welfare support infrastructure. Drawing on qualitative interview data, we use concepts ‘food poverty knowledge’ and ‘lay morality’ analyse narratives those running major Trussell Trust ‘foodbank-plus’ programme explore inherent moral sentiments therein how who are in food understood. We identify contra...

Research on trust in buyer–supplier relationships has tended to focus on the performance outcomes of a trusting relationship, as well as the processes that serve to build trust. Largely absent from the buyer–supplier literature is an in-depth examination of activities that break down trust, and the resulting effect on supplier trust in the buyer. The authors propose and test amodel that evaluat...