The authors of this paper believe that scholarly work on knowledge management (KM) has largely overlooked ethical considerations. As such, this paper argues for the infusion of ethical considerations into knowledge management (KM) research. Using the lens of the classical ethical theories in philosophy, this paper revisits key areas of KM—knowledge creation, storage and access, transfer, and ap...

Regarding ethical considerations, please be advised that the medications applied in this study are all routinely used to treat patients with ulcerative colitis. All are officially approved interventions. Additionally, it is our hospital policy that all patients accept the treatment option and are treated in accord with the Helsinki Declaration as stated in the methods section, under Ethical con...

Ethical Considerations for Health-Related ServiceLearning Programs To the Editor: I read with interest Saffran’s commentary “Dancing Through Cape Coast: Ethical and Practical Considerations for Health-Related ServiceLearning Programs.” This and several other recent articles give U.S. medical students, clinicians, and educators plenty to digest regarding the ethics of temporary international lea...

Ethical Considerations for Health-Related ServiceLearning Programs To the Editor: I read with interest Saffran’s commentary “Dancing Through Cape Coast: Ethical and Practical Considerations for Health-Related ServiceLearning Programs.” This and several other recent articles give U.S. medical students, clinicians, and educators plenty to digest regarding the ethics of temporary international lea...

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis is already used to screen for genetic defects. In 2004 the term “designer baby” made the transition from sci-fi movies and weblogs into the Oxford English Dictionary, where it is defined as “a baby whose genetic makeup has been artificially selected by genetic engineering combined with in vitro fertilization to ensure the presence or absence of particular genes...

Poor adherence to treatment is a common cause of medical treatment failure. Studying adherence is complicated by the potential for the study environment to impact adherence behavior. Studies performed without informing patients about adherence monitoring must balance the risks of deception against the potential benefits of the knowledge to be gained. Ethically monitoring a patient's adherence t...

To the Editor: Perhaps no part of the criminal justice system is more fraught with moral, ethical and legal dilemmas than the execution process. The paramount concern of the blue-ribbon Death Penalty Committee of The Constitution Project is to ensure this system is as fair and transparent as possible and comports with the numerous protections found in the US Constitution. As Dr Truog and collea...

Scientists undoubtedly owe their great advance and knowledge in biomedical research to millions of animals which they use every year in often-times extremely painful and distressing scientific procedures. One of the important issues in scientific research is to consider ethics in animal experimentation. Since this is a crucial issue in the modern era of medical research, in this paper, we have ...

Facial transplantation is becoming increasingly accepted as a method of reconstructing otherwise unreconstructable adult faces. As this modality is made more available, we must turn our attention to pediatric patients who may benefit from facial transplantation. In the current article, the authors present and briefly examine the most pressing ethical challenges posed by the possibility of perfo...