OBJECTIVE To identify the various potential manifestations of the dual-role dilemma in the psychiatric ethics literature. METHOD The terms 'dual role', 'dual agency', 'overlapping roles', and 'double agency' were searched on the electronic databases PubMed, Medline, Embase and PsychInfo. Classic papers in the field of psychiatric ethics and their references were manually searched. Papers were...

History has revealed that there is a never-ending evolution of theories or models of corporate governance. One of the reasons is due to the very essence of social consciences that is minimal and profit making took center stage. All over the world, companies are trying to instill the sense of governance into their corporate structure. With the surge of capitalism, corporation became stronger whi...

at the aim of explaining the rights of health care recipients and upgrading ethical observance in the field of treatment-the most important field of health care-, the patient's rights charter was declared by ministry of health and medical education to all medical universities in september 2009. this paper provides a report of strategic planning for implementation of patient's rights charter and...

ethics is an essential requirement for a sound and healthy society. it is due to its positive individual, organizational, and social consequences that ethics has always provoked scholars, instructors, and organization managers to try to maintain and improve it. the adaptation of managerial solutions will gradually result in the improvement of trust, commitment, and effort which are all necessar...

OBJECTIVE to discuss the professors' conceptions about the ethical dimension of nurse training based on the relationships which this establishes with the competencies with the professional profile; and to identify the spaces and strategies for the teaching of ethics in this process. METHOD A qualitative study delineated as a case study. The data was collected based on focus groups with profes...

studies on the doctor-patient encounter, Robert Veatch defends the role that philosophy and theology have had in bioethical discourse and decision-making since the 1960s. Intermediate positions are developed by Alexander Capron ("socially situated, interdisciplinary medical ethics that seeks to protect professional judgement") and by Stephen Latham and Linda Emanuel, who emphasize that the very...

Implication for health policy makers/practice/research/medical education: This editorial emphasizes the importance of abiding by universal protocols of medical ethics when undertaking clinical research. As a researcher with several affiliations and commitments , I am often asked to assess clinical research studies , and approve student dissertation proposals prior to their initiation. One of th...

this research is a new attempt in order to study the effect of evolution theory in the dimension of empirical ethics. in the contemporary area the evolutionary ethics is in the three branches: descriptive, prescriptive and meta-ethics. the descriptive evolutionary ethics tries to modify human’s ethical believes in the evolutionary aspect and achieves more share from two others part in this grou...

This study examines the centrality of ethics within editorials published in Canadian Institute Chartered Accountants’ professional journal, CA Magazine, over 1912 to 2010 period. Starting from twin assumptions that speak about appropriate behavior using a variety words such as ‘ethics,’ ‘conduct,’ and ‘codes,’ is situational, we use topic modeling techniques identify these dimensions ethical di...