Preface. Current Issues in Ethics

Focus: current issues in medical ethics.

The current debates about seat belts in motor cars and the evils of smoking may only be straws in the wind if the scenario sketched in this paper were translated into a social, political programme. Then 'illness would increasingly be seen as a failure to keep healthy and thus culpable. The failures [the patients] ... must either be irresponsible and hence punishable at least by the imposition o...

Summary Preface Current Issues on Sustainable Development that Impacts

This discussion addresses some SD issues associated to the extracting and processing of mineral commodities that are of major concern to the mining enterprises , mining communities and that are the focal point of research engineer or mineral scientist in an attempt to design sustainably sound processes and products. Also, at the end, a section on Sustainability Indicators , the main object of t...

Onm-16: Ethics Issues in Assisted ReproductiveTechnology

Three Issues in Legal Ethics

Foundational issues in information ethics

Purpose – Information ethics, as is well known, has emerged as an independent area of ethical and philosophical inquiry. There are a number of academic journals that are devoted entirely to the numerous ethical issues that arise in connection with the new information communication technologies; these issues include a host of intellectual property, information privacy, and security issues of con...