This article illustrates an ethical dilemma that I faced while treating an 86-year-old woman at her home. The ethical dilemma was caused due to several factors such as the expectations of the client (client/consumer rights), organisational expectations (employer, governmental and payer-source regulations) and my own personal values (one's moral philosophies, perceived social responsibilities, s...

Evaluations of analogous situations are an important source for our moral intuitions. A puzzling recent set of findings in experiments exploring transfer effects between intuitions about moral dilemmas has demonstrated a striking asymmetry. Transfer often occurred with a specific ordering of moral dilemmas, but not when the sequence was reversed. In this article we present a new theory of trans...

The main objective of the study was to determine the effects of the Konstanz method of moral dilemma discussion (KMDD) on moral competence in the allied health students. The study employed the Moral Judgement Test (MJT) as the instrument to monitor the change of moral judgement. The test was translated from English into Thai and validated in 247 students in grade nine, grade twelve, and first a...

The cognitive and emotional neuropsychological processes underlying moral judgments are the focus of groundbreaking research in understanding moral cognition. The aim of this study is to adapt to Spanish the moral dilemmas battery of Moore. This battery presents a set of moral dilemmas from a utilitarian choice (assuming an emotionally aversive behaviour for a higher benefit) and a non-utilitar...

This paper aimed to introduce the Konstanz Method of Dilemma Discussion KMDD® as one most effective methods that are designed foster moral competence and, therefore, promote tolerance and equality, regardless cultural background, religion, or views. It is mainly used within educational context, but it can be also implemented in different environments conditions. The should considered representa...

OBJECTIVE To review the literature on moral distress experienced by nursing and medical professionals within neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and paediatric intensive care units (PICUs). DESIGN Pubmed, EBSCO (Academic Search Complete, CINAHL and Medline) and Scopus were searched using the terms neonat*, infant*, pediatric*, prematur* or preterm AND (moral distress OR moral responsibility...

Moral dilemmas are used to study the situations in which there is a conflict between two moral rules: e.g. is it permissible to kill one person in order to save more people. In standard moral dilemmas the protagonist is a human. However, the recent progress in robotics leads to the question of how artificial cognitive agents should act in situations involving moral dilemmas. Here, we study mora...

Despite widespread acceptance in the United States of neurological criteria to determine death, clinicians encounter families who object, often on religious grounds, to the categorization of their loved ones as "brain dead." The concept of "reasonable accommodation" of objections to brain death, promulgated in both state statutes and the bioethics literature, suggests the possibility of comprom...