background: it is the responsibility of each occupational therapist to always act ethically and professionally in a clinical setting. however, there is little information available concerning the factors influencing ethical behavior of occupational therapists at work. since no study has been conducted in iran on this topic, this qualitative study aimed to identify the factors influencing ethica...

during medical training, students obtain enough skills and knowledge. however, medical ethics accomplishes its goals when, together with training medical courses, it guides students behavior towards morality so that ethics-oriented medical practice is internalized. medical ethics is a branch of applied ethics which tries to introduce ethics into physicians’ practice and ethical decisions; thus,...

This research work advances IT ethics research by surveying the literature regarding IT ethical behavior models and further proposes a comprehensive IT ethical behavioral model. Based on an initial meta-analysis of some of the ethical research, a conceptual ethical behavior model is proposed. The proposed model suggests that ethical behavioral intention is influenced by an individual’s attitude...

In April 2002 the Nuffield Council on Bioethics published the Report The Ethics of Research Related to Healthcare in Developing Countries. It provides an ethical framework for those designing or conducting healthcarerelated research in developing countries. This paper will draw on the conclusions made in the Report, and present some of the recommendations. It will cover the importance of genuin...

As evidenced by high-throughput sequencers, genomic technologies have recently undergone radical advances. These technologies enable comprehensive sequencing of personal genomes considerably more efficiently and less expensively than heretofore. These developments present a challenge to the conventional framework of biomedical ethics; under these changing circumstances, each research project ha...

We offer a model for improving ethical behavior in organizations. Integrating research about ethical decision-making with research about the self, we argue that self-threat is a pervasive obstacle to improving ethical behavior, particularly in work environments. To this end, we introduce the concept of ethical learners. Ethical learners possess a central moral identity (they care about being et...