Implication for health policy makers/practice/research/medical education: This editorial emphasizes the importance of abiding by universal protocols of medical ethics when undertaking clinical research. As a researcher with several affiliations and commitments , I am often asked to assess clinical research studies , and approve student dissertation proposals prior to their initiation. One of th...

Heightened by emerging web-based technologies through which it has become easier for anyone to engage in illegal or unethical appropriation and use another’s personal information, the debate is ongoing concerning how best to teach ethics in order to maximize its impact on learners. Currently, ethics is taught through a variety of methods using various resources. This quasi-experimental study ex...

This paper engages with the question of what it is to 'do good medical ethics' in two ways. It begins with an exploration of what it might mean to say that health professionals practise good medical ethics as part of practising good ethical medicine. Using the example of the Genethics Club, a well-established national ethics forum for genetics professionals in the UK, the paper develops an acco...

Introduction Corporate codes of ethics are one of several influenc es on business ethics within and across cultures. In a model that goes beyond philosophically-based ethics, Stajkovic and Luthans (1 997) use social-cognitive theory as a springboard to identify factors influe ncing business ethics standards and conduct. They propose that a person’s perception of ethical sta ndards and subsequen...

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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 S.P. van Rysewyk and M. Pontier (eds.), Machine Medical Ethics, Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering 74, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_2 Abstract Machine medical ethics is a novel field of research for ethicists, philosophers, artificial intelligence experts, information scientists, and medical s pecialists. I ...

Objective The innovative Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (NPM) Ethics Teaching Program at the University of Ottawa provides NPM trainees with vital foundational knowledge required to manage ethically contentious clinical scenarios frequently encountered in practice. In this study, our aim was to develop a knowledge test to assess the impact of the NPM Ethics Teaching Program on trainees' knowledge ...

BACKGROUND Countries are increasingly devoting significant resources to creating or strengthening research ethics committees, but there has been insufficient attention to assessing whether these committees are actually improving the protection of human research participants. DISCUSSION Research ethics committees face numerous obstacles to achieving their goal of improving research participant...