In recent years, we have seen a new concern with ethics training for research and development professionals. Although ethics training has become more common, the effectiveness of the training being provided is open to question. In the present effort, a new ethics training course was developed that stresses the importance of the strategies people apply to make sense of ethical problems. The effe...

Our concern is with the ethical issues related to girlhood and bodily integrity— the right to be free from physical harm and harassment and to experience freedom and security in relation to the body. We defend agency, positive self-relations, and health as basic elements of bodily integrity and we advocate that this normative concept be used as a conceptual tool for the protection of the rights...

Childcare robots are being manufactured and developed with the long term aim of creating surrogate carers. While total child-care is not yet being promoted, there are indications that it is „on the cards‟. We examine recent research and developments in childcare robots and speculate on progress over the coming years by extrapolating from other ongoing robotics work. Our main aim is to raise eth...

The way we regulate food and agricultural systems is inherently of ethical concern. Thus, we are dealing with issues relevant to moral philosophy. Agricultural ethics is an emerging discipline which is principally concerned with topics involving public policy. Agriculture – ethical approaches contrasts the traditional concept of moral philosophy and applied ethics. When we try to face specific ...

Obesity is a major public health concern worldwide. Because individual-level interventions have been unsuccessful at curbing obesity rates, there is an emphasis on public health approaches. In addition to testing the effectiveness of any public health interventions, it is important to consider the ethical implications of these interventions in order to protect the public's rights and promote ov...

Permissibility of placebo controls in psychiatric research is raising everlasting controversies. The main ethical issue remains: whether, when, under what conditions, and to what extent is it justifiable to disregard subject's present (best) interest for the presumably "greater" ones. In relation to this main ethical concern, two distinct arguments arose: proponents of placebo controls trials (...

Background: “Always doing what is in the best interest of the patient” should be the ethical behavior of doctors.The recent increase in litigation against doctors is an issue of immediate concern which says that Doctors and health professionals are confronted with many ethical problems in there profession regularly. The reasons for these are social, economic, professional, judicial and others.O...

This paper details a typology of risk factors that should concern digital technologies and more specifically NLP. It aims at providing an evaluation grid for an ethical assessment of researches and applications. MOTS-CLÉS : éthique, analyse du risque, facteur de risque, vulnérabilité, criticité, risque professionnel, commande vocale, aide au handicap.

[Note: Ethical concern about "uses" will heighten at the threshold of clinical trials of cell-directed therapies in humans. The scientific foundations for PSC based therapy have yet to be laid. Mouse research is the main source of clinically interesting information. Replicable therapeutic research in higher animals is needed. Leading scientists (Thomson, Hogan) predict a 5 year period to reach ...

Collections of tumour samples can be an invaluable resource for medical research. There are, however, numerous ethical and legal challenges associated with tumour banking. While there has been extensive discussion of these issues in the legal and ethical literature, there are few available empirical data in relation to the activities of tumour banks in Australia, their practices around ethicall...