Psychologists may struggle with what to do when counselling recalcitrant HIV-positive clients who refuse to disclose to third parties at risk. This paper revisits the legal and ethical quagmire that pits "dangerous patient exception" against client confidentiality rights. W i t h the notion that hope leads to more ethical behaviour, this paper further elucidates the significance of maintaining ...

In this note on nursing ethics, Mr Martin Bunzl, a philosopher who is involved in seminars on medical ethics at his university, describes the ethical dilemmas of the nurse in the USA. He sets out the arguments to support the view that a nurse ought always to follow the orders of the physician and critically evaluates them both from an ethical and a legal standpoint. The practical implications o...

The era of medical paternalism is past and the public must be involved in the moral debate over ethical issues in medicine. Thomas, Chairman of the British Medical Association's Central Ethical Committee, agrees with these points made by Ian Kennedy in the 1980 Reith Lectures on medical ethics, but rejects the latter's emphasis on consumerism and stricter regulation of physicians. It is the p...

The development ol a code of ethics is an essential characteristic of a profession and provides one means for the exercise of professional self-regulation. A code indicates a profession's acceptance of the responsibility and trust with which it has been invested by society. Upon entering the profession ol nursing, each person inherits a measure of the responsibility and trust that has accrloe.....

After preliminary definitions, the ethical questions arising particularly in the field of geriatric surgery are examined. The author finds no ethical justification for bias against the elderly patient as such in the allocation of scarce medical resources, nor for ignoring or overriding his wishes in respect of treatment; solutions must be based on the circumstances of the individual case. Crite...

BACKGROUND Given that advances in research continuously raise new ethical issues, a multidisciplinary working group of investigators involved in biomedical research has gathered to discuss and compare ethical viewpoints in their daily practice. METHODS The working group has drafted a Charter for Ethics in Biomedical Research that encompasses all the steps in the research process, i.e. from th...

Local review of research by ethics committees in the UK has long been held to be an important right of the local research ethics committee and, even with the introduction of the European Clinical Trials Directive, the governance arrangements for research ethics committees continue to allow for local review of multicentre studies. There is no requirement for local review in either the European U...

Article history: Received: 18-06-2015 Revised: 24-09-2015 Accepted: 11-11-2015

Morally motivated individuals behave more cooperatively than predicted by standard theory. Hence, if a firm can attract workers who are strongly motivated by ethical concerns, moral hazard problems like shirking can be reduced. We show that employers may be able to use the firm’s corporate social responsibility profile as a screening device to attract more productive workers. Both pooling and s...