Privacy is an important concern in any research programme that deals with personal medical data. In recent years, ethics and privacy have become key considerations when conducting any form of scientific research that involves personal data. These issues are now addressed in healthcare professional training programmes. Indeed, ethics, legal frameworks and privacy are often the subject of much co...

The debate on the effect of teaching ethics to accounting students has continued for decades. Prior studies on the effects of covering specific types of content on student ethics, including ethics theory and professional codes with accounting-specific cases and examples, have produced mixed results. This study examines the impact of a semester long accounting ethics course which incorporates a ...

for evaluating and justifying the behavior of intelligent artificial agents in specific domain from ethical aspect, we should compare agent’s behavior to applied ethics of that domain. Existing proposed applied ethics by philosophers are usually abstract and general. We propose a system which can produce non-abstract and concrete codes of ethics, which is appropriate for comparing to agent’s be...

Background: The approach of medical ethics training courses at Tehran University of Medical Sciences to change the attitude and promote medical ethics knowledge of learners has challenges. This study aims to identify the challenges in teaching medical ethics at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This is a qualitative study with semi-structured interviews conducted in April 2018 at...

Ethics can be understood as a code of behaviour or as the study of codes of behaviour. While the mission of the International Association of Bioethics is a scholarly examination of moral issues in health care and the biological sciences, many people in the field believe that it is also their task to create new and better codes of practice. Both ways of doing bioethics are sound, but it is impor...

Purpose Previous literature provides mixed evidence about the effectiveness of a code ethics in limiting managerial opportunism. While some studies find that is merely window-dressing, others they do influence managers' behavior. The present study investigates whether quality decreases cost equity by Design/methodology/approach In order to test hypothesis, authors perform an empirical analysis ...

Most professional societies, scientific associations, and the like that undertake to write a code of ethics do so using other codes as models but without much (practical) guidance about how to do the work. The existing literature on codes is much more concerned with content than procedure. This paper adds to guidance already in the literature what I learned from participating in the writing of ...