Responsibly Competent: Teaching, Ethics and Diversity

Responsibly competent: Teaching, ethics and diversity

Teaching Ethics and Computer Forensics:

Philosophy and teaching medical ethics.

Not unpredictably, Raanon Gillon's reactions to Teaching medical ethics: The cognitive-developmental view' included both. While these general concerns have been addressed in other contexts2-7, a brief specific response to Gillon's comments is appropriate for the readers of this Journal. Gillon's philosophical concerns appear to be that the cognitive-developmental approach to moral education is ...

Teaching engineering ethics and sustainability

Most professional engineering code’s of ethics require that engineers shall understand and promote the principles of sustainability and/or sustainable development and have due regard for their environmental, social and economic obligations. However the ethical obligations towards sustainability are incorporated into the teaching of engineering ethics in very few programmes. Typically engineerin...

Teaching medical ethics.

At Southampton Medical School students in the third year of the course (the first clinical year) spend one morning a week in general practice. Discussion of patients' problems with students often encompasses ethical issues, and for some time we have been aware of our inability to provide any clear framework for an informed debate. Our students get some formal teaching in ethics, but not until t...