Society, even outside of the field of science and medicine, is faced with ethical dilemmas every day in which people are forced to take a stance and make difficult decisions. However, the question becomes where do these decisions come from? What are ethics? And is there bias involved in the drawing of these ethical conclusions? Philosophers have been pondering these questions for centuries and ...

Information technology practitioners are required to make calls of judgement in both a technical and a professional capacity. Professional codes of conduct and codes of ethics are intended to provide guidance in making such calls of judgement. This paper looks at the Australian Computer Society code of ethics in the light of the information technology strategies employed by the Australian telec...

We performed a comparative analysis of the codes of ethics of three official organizations in Dentistry professional ethics: Code of Ethics for Dentists in the European Union, drawn up by the Council of European Dentists (CED); Código Español de Ética y Deontología Dental, published by the Consejo General de Colegios de Odontólogos y Estomatólogos de España (CGCOE); and Principles of Ethics and...

Today software engineering is a global activity. Frequently groups of people from all over the world collaborate on the development of one system or work is outsourced. Western companies send development work to Asia and increasingly to Eastern Europe. The differences between cultures and the problems these differences create, are plentiful. Many professional organizations guide their members t...

Throughout history, societies have developed their own codes of ethics, including those pertaining to the practice of medicine. In the United States, physicians have adopted a set of ethics based on religious values and historical teachings. We, as physicians, have been presented several codes of ethics, including the American Medical Association Code of Ethics and the American College of Radio...

Ethical codes such as CASLPA's Canon of Ethics ensure that clients' rights are protected over and above what is simply prescribed by law. However, ethical dilemmas often arise in everyday practice for which the canon does not provide specific guidance. For example, is there a moral cost to the quest towards acquiring a better voice or dialect, or "reducing" one's accent? Four principles of clin...

This special session addresses a challenge posed by engineering ethics: What does it mean? Review of the literature shows many competing definitions, each with their own understandings of the term ethics and the role it plays in engineering. Our aim is to review the different uses of the term ―engineering ethics,‖ along with several other common terms, such as ―professional ethics‖ and ―profess...

In the course of history, different civilizations and cultures have had different codes of ethics for “animal professions”. To understand the current form and content of these codes of ethics, it is necessary to look back and analyse the opinions of different experts from ancient times to the present day. In the history of European civilization, the ethical/deontological views closest to those ...