The public has been inundated with reports of major breakdowns in business ethics in recent years. Enron, Parmalat, ABB, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom, Qwest, Global Crossing, Skandia, Adelphia, Tyco, Ahold, Holzman etc. have helped the issue of ethical business behaviour achieve widespread but uneasy notoriety. Are these case merely the tip of the iceberg ? How extensive are unethical behaviours a...

Universities with central research integrity/ethics offices have a unique opportunity to provide global support to research ethics education. However, the totality of university effort in this area cannot reside in these offices if the institutions aspire to successful programs. As research integrity staff, our mission is to direct and conduct the University’s program for education and training...

Having considered current reports concerning plagiarisms taking place in the global science community, the authors decided to address the principal reasons, which lead to these illegalities. In recent years, misconduct in research, such as plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, guest author, ghost author, self-citation, etc. have been increasing significantly in scientific papers, proving a la...

OBJECTIVE Medical ethics has a tried and tested literature and a global active research community. Even among health professionals, literate and fluent in medical ethics, there is low recognition of radiation protection principles such as justification and optimization. On the other hand, many in healthcare environments misunderstand dose limitation obligations and incorrectly believe patients ...

It is hypothesised and argued that "the four principles of medical ethics" can explain and justify, alone or in combination, all the substantive and universalisable claims of medical ethics and probably of ethics more generally. A request is renewed for falsification of this hypothesis showing reason to reject any one of the principles or to require any additional principle(s) that can't be exp...

In order to evaluate Floridi’s philosophy of information (PI) and correlative information ethics (IE) as potential frameworks for a global information and computing ethics (ICE), I review a range of important criticisms, defenses, and extensions of PI and IE, along with Floridi’s responses to these, as gathered together in a recent special issue of Ethics and Information Technology. A revised a...