The development of applied ethics in recent decades has had great significance for philosophy and society. In this article, I try to characterise this field of philosophical inquiry. I also discuss the relation of applied ethics to social policy and to professional ethics. In the first part, I address the following questions: (1) What is applied ethics? (2) When and why did applied ethics appea...

CRITICALCARENURSE Vol 26, No. 2, APRIL 2006 129 Sheldon Zink is the director of the Program for Transplant Policy and Ethics at the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Stacey Wertlieb was formerly the research manager for the Program for Transplant Policy and Ethics at the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. She is now a research analyst for the Cen...

CRITICALCARENURSE Vol 26, No. 2, APRIL 2006 129 Sheldon Zink is the director of the Program for Transplant Policy and Ethics at the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Stacey Wertlieb was formerly the research manager for the Program for Transplant Policy and Ethics at the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. She is now a research analyst for the Cen...

CRITICALCARENURSE Vol 26, No. 2, APRIL 2006 129 Sheldon Zink is the director of the Program for Transplant Policy and Ethics at the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Stacey Wertlieb was formerly the research manager for the Program for Transplant Policy and Ethics at the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. She is now a research analyst for the Cen...

The primary responsibility of veterinarians is to the animals in their care, so veterinary students need to be aware of important issues and factual information relevantto animal welfare. Veterinarians have tended to concentrate on physical aspects of welfare, but also need to take account of mental aspects (including pain) and naturalness. A crucial first step in animal welfare education is to...

The idea of resource scarcity permeates health ethics and health policy analysis in various contexts. However, health ethics inquiry seldom asks-as it should-why some settings are 'resource-scarce' and others not. In this article I describe interrogating scarcity as a strategy for inquiry into questions of resource allocation within a single political jurisdiction and, in particular, as an appr...

daily development of the human knowledge, promotion of biomedical technologies and improvement of physicians' ability in diagnosis and treatment of different types of diseases have always accompanied plenty of discussions and challengeable subjects, especially from the view point of ethical issues. obtaining deep and accurate recognition of these subjects, the attention of the physicians and th...

In many European countries there is a public debate about the acceptability and regulation of euthanasia. In 2002, Belgium became the second country after the Netherlands to enact a law on euthanasia. Although euthanasia rarely occurs, the complexity of the clinical-ethical decision making surrounding euthanasia requests and the need for adequate support reported by caregivers, means that healt...

there is a growing global market in healthcare and patients. and while there is a small body of evidence emerging around this phenomenon commonly known as medical tourism there remain significant unanswered policy and research questions which need to be addressed. we outline some of the key issues set against the six key disciplinary preoccupations of the journal: epidemiology, health economics...

A Proposed Definition Computers are special technology and they raise some special ethical issues. In this essay I will discuss what makes computers different from other technology and how this difference makes a difference in ethical considerations. In particular, I want to characterize computer ethics and show why this emerging field is both intellectually interesting and enormously important...