Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW. Ian H Kerridge, BMed(Hons), MPhil, FRACP, FRCPA, Associate Professor of Bioethics, and Director; John R McPhee, BCom(Hons)(LegStud), Honorary Associate in Health Law. Reprints will not be available from the authors. Correspondence: Associate Professor Ian H Kerridge, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, ...

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With increasing market competition, organizations are striving for greater innovation in products and services. Quality management has the potential to invigorate an organization’s product, process and administrative innovation when strategically aligned with internal contingencies. This paper seeks to address the relationship between social and technical quality management with innovation. Mor...

A Code of Ethics for Health Informatics Professionals (HIPs) should therefore be clear, unambiguous, and easily applied in practice. Moreover, since the field of informatics is in a state of constant flux, it should be flexible so as to accommodate ongoing changes without sacrificing the applicability of its basic principles. It is therefore inappropriate for a Code of Ethics for HIPs to deal w...

Medicine is explicitly committed to the traditional values of empathy, compassion, and altruism. Along with the “middle” principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, justice and respect for autonomy, these are among the values which form the ethical framework by which physician conduct is evaluated. But how is empathy to be understood as fundamental to the practice of ethical medicine? Should it...

Why an Ethics Program?; How to Organize Ethics as a Program; Principles of Ethics; Strategies for Fostering an Ethical Organization; Adopt the Goal of Implementing an Ethics Program; Establish an Ethics Committee and Assign Operational Responsibility to an Ethics Officer; Adopt a Code of Ethics; Make the Ethics Program Visible; Establish a Reporting Mechanism; Conduct an Ethical Analysis; Consi...

The development of applied ethics in recent decades has had great significance for philosophy and society. In this article, I try to characterise this field of philosophical inquiry. I also discuss the relation of applied ethics to social policy and to professional ethics. In the first part, I address the following questions: (1) What is applied ethics? (2) When and why did applied ethics appea...

Transfer of knowledge and skill is the backbone of medicine. Moreover, transfer of the “art and science” of medicine requires close association between a senior physician, and his trainee. Mentorship is therefore, an essential part of medical education and is perhaps as old as medicine itself. The following article takes a look at the ethics involved in this complex relationship and discusses t...