Ethical and moral development: aspects relating to professional training in Dentistry

Some Moral Issues of Mental Health Training in Professional Education

In a very respectable sense all education is preparation for practice. In the professions of health, welfare, and education, the so-called helping professions?practice inevitably turns on the handling of human relationships. This is obviously not so in the practice of experimental scientists, technologists, philologists or even sociologists. They are not trained to work with people though it wi...

Legal and ethical issues relating to AIDS.

The worldwide AIDS epidemic has posed an extraordinary array of ethical and legal challenges. The work presented here reviews three issues at the heart of the matter: discrimination against HIV-infected people, the limits of confidentiality, and the exercise of coercive government powers to limit spread of the disease. Because the authors are most familiar with the U.S. experience, the review d...

Ethical, moral and other aspects related to fertility preservation in cancer patients

Post-treatment fertility emerges as an important issue in the early counseling of individuals with cancer, since survivors may have their quality of life affected by the occurrence of functional failure of the gonads because of antineoplastic therapies. In the context, oncofertility has been developed as an interdisciplinary field of study that combines expertise in reproductive medicine and on...

Ethical Aspects of Software Development and Usage

This paper describes and discusses how IT related decisions are intimately linked to ethical issues . Based on a Case Study undertaken at a large public sector organisation, software usage and organisational processes were examined in order to uncover underlying values and social control issues embedded in ́technical solutions ́.

Ethical Leadership - How to integrate empirical and ethical aspects for promoting moral decision making in business practice