Embedded ethics: some technical and ethical challenges

ISLAM AND CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL CHALLENGES

Aging and Long-Term Care: Some Ethical Challenges

Introduction R eflection on ethical issues in long-term care results in large part from the relative newness and size of an extended “third age,” that is, that time in life that is generally characterized neither by reproduction nor production. This third age has become more common only at the end of the twentieth century with so many people living longer as the result of lifestyle changes and ...

Ethics, ethical comportment, and etiquette.

There has been discussion on how various theories of ethics are similar, how they are different, and how each should be applied. Ethical theory, in general, has been presented in opposition to situation-based ethics and the ethical comportment found in socially based practices. Etiquette is one concept that has entered these debates, only peripherally, as a negative example of what healthcare p...

Ethical ethics committees?

Intelligent Mobility Systems: Some Socio-technical Challenges and Opportunities

Analysis of socio-technical challenges and opportunities around contemporary mobilities suggests new interpretations and visions for intelligent transport systems. Multiple forms of intelligence are required (but not easily compatible), transport is too narrow a term, and innovation results in new sociotechnical systems. An exploration of cumulative, collective and collaborative aspects of mobi...