Ethics & Behavior: Unlimited Prospects

Religion , Ethics , and Corporate Behavior

We provide evidence that cultural norms affect the likelihood of unethical corporate behavior. Firms headquartered in highly religious counties are less likely to backdate options, grant excessive compensation packages to their managers, practice aggressive earnings management, and be the target of class action securities lawsuits. Our results are strongest for locations with greater concentrat...

Neglected ends: clinical ethics consultation and the prospects for closure.

Clinical ethics consultations (CECs) are sometimes deemed complete at the moment when the consultants make a recommendation. In CECs that involve actual ethical conflict, this view of a consult's endpoint runs the risk of overemphasizing the conflict's resolution at the expense of the consult's process, which can have deleterious effects on the various parties in the conflict. This overly narro...

Prospects for prediction: ethics analysis of neuroimaging in Alzheimer's disease.

This article focuses on the prospects and ethics of using neuroimaging to predict Alzheimer's disease (AD). It is motivated by consideration of the historical roles of science in medicine and society, and considerations specifically contemporary of capabilities in imaging and aging, and the benefits and hope they bring. A general consensus is that combinations of imaging methods will ultimately...

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The largest collection of Darwin's writings ever published appeared last month on the website The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online (http://darwin-online.org.uk). Never before has so much Darwin material, and so many rare and widely dispersed items, been brought together in one place and made available free of charge. The site currently offers more than 50,000 pages of searchable text and...