Encountering ethics in studying challenging family relations

Ethics in family planning/reproductive health services

Marketing family medicine: challenging misconceptions.

As medical students, we have seen considerable misrepresentation of FM and regard this as a marketing failure in the early years of medical school. Negative aspects are often exaggerated, and positive characteristics are downplayed. Undersold features include FM’s opportunity for diversity and flexibility of career, challenge of practice, and ability to “hold its own” alongside any other medica...

Research Ethics for Studying Open Source Projects

The public visibility of Free and Open Source Software development has sparked interest in the research communities of business, social and computer sciences to use the projects as research subjects. This article tries to open a discussion about the implications of this interest, whether the Free and Open Source communities appreciate being under “surveillance” and how we can deal with the ethi...

The ethics of clinical innovation in psychopharmacology: Challenging traditional bioethics

OBJECTIVE To assess the scientific and ethical basis for clinical innovation in psychopharmacology. METHODS We conducted a literature review, utilizing MEDLINE search and bibliographic cross-referencing, and historical evidence regarding the discovery and development of new medications in psychiatry. Clinical innovation was defined as use of treatments in a clinical setting which have not bee...

Student Performance Studying Ethics in the Context of Internet Use

The effectiveness of teaching ethical analysis concurrently with internet use and development was studied in a course designed to: heighten the awareness of ethical issues surrounding the use of the internet; aid students in making ethical decisions about their own computer use; and improve the critical analysis skills of the internet user. In a pretest posttest study using two standardized ins...