In this issue of Public Health Reviews, we turn our attention again to public health ethics. In our 2012 issue dedicated to this topic, we published 17 papers on a variety of aspects of ethical public health practice. In that issue, Aceijas et al. surveyed European schools of public health and reported that of the 40 schools responding, a large majority stated that they included ethics in their...

A chance to train in a low resource setting is a priceless experience for someone who aspires to pursue a career in international health. in recent years the number of US-based medical students undertaking short-term research in lowresource settings has gone up. The paper by Provenzano and others describes specific ethical concerns related to this phenomenon and suggests guidelines medical scho...

4. Philosophy systematizes the fruits of inquiry: The journey toward truth begins in the wonder awakened by contemplation of creation and the destiny common to all human beings; to this, philosophy brings rigorous modes of thought and produces bodies of knowledge which contain a common core of logical, metaphysical, and ethical insights--implicit principles of right reason which are expressed v...

Education: 6. Schools of nursing should address decision-making within their curriculum related to the impact that fatigue and the habitual The American Nurses Association (ANA) takes the position that, regardless of the number of hours worked, all registered nurses have an ethical responsibility to carefully consider their level of fatigue when deciding whether to accept any assignment extendi...

background: in recent decades, traditional medical ethics which is confined to certain commands and prohibitions, is substituted by modern medical ethics which deals with problems such as euthanasia, abortion, organ transplantation, etc. and tries to find proper ethical solutions. these solutions wittingly or unwittingly are rooted in certain philosophical foundations. methods: the philosophy o...

The ethical review of research on human beings, and indeed the ethical review of broader ranges of human activity, is a growth industry. I want to look here at the ethical review of research on humans and raise some questions about the direction it is taking. I am pessimistic about where the institutions that we have set up are leading us and I want to sound a warning note and suggest some chan...

Health research initiatives worldwide are growing in scope and complexity, particularly as they move into the developing world. Expanding health research activity in low- and middle-income countries has resulted in a commensurate rise in the need for sound ethical review structures and functions in the form of Research Ethics Committees (RECs). The urgent need for continued capacity development...

Business school curriculums are designed to improve business skills and a student’s eventual workplace performance. In addition these skill sets the emerging environment demands softer associated with ethical decision-making sustainable practices. The objective of study is identify key influencers orientation attitudes towards as first critical step for curriculum planning develop both environm...