Conference ethics

Conference on Ethics and Environmental Policies BUSINESS STYLES AND SUSTAINABLE

"Can philosophical ethics still offer a way out of the ecological crisis?"-the German philosopher P. Kampits asked himself in 1978. Up to the present time environmental ethics, in their various forms (ecological, utilitarian, Rawlsian, the ethics of rights), have demonstrated with mixed results how and why humanity's relationship with the environment may reasonably be held to be also a moral pr...

ACCF/AHA consensus conference report on professionalism and ethics.

The recommendations set forth in this report are those of the conference participants and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the American College of Cardiology Foundation and the American Heart Association, Inc. When citing this document, the American College of Cardiology Foundation and the American Heart Association would appreciate the following citation format: ACCF/AHA con...

Ethics of Communicating Scientific Findings of Autism Risk CONFERENCE MATERIALS Ethics of Communicating Scientific Findings of Autism Risk CASES

Foreward to IMANA/Hofstra University Ethics Conference, 2010: End-of-Life Issues: Ethical and Religious Perspectives

jima.imana.org Dear IMANA Members and JIMA Readers: Since I assumed the chairmanship of the Ethics Committee of the Islamic Medical Association of North America (IMANA), we have been deliberating on the need to have a conference solely devoted to ethics. To be successful, we wanted it to be multidisciplinary and not to be limited to IMANA members as has been with other IMANA conferences. To ach...

Teaching medical ethics An experimental case - conference programme for obstetrics and gynaecology clinical students

Since thefounding ofthe University ofLimburg (1974), in The Netherlands, an innovative medical curriculum has been guided by educational principles ofproblemorientation, continuous assessment, student initiative and attitude development. The teaching ofmedical ethics was built into the preclinical curriculum from the start. However, the clinicalyears remained largely unaffected, and only recent...