This section of the Code of Ethics does not mention abortion, but that was the principle area of concern when this revised section was approved by General Council, the governing body of the Association, in June 1977. The Code of Ethics does not require a physician whose personal morality prohibits him from counselling, recommending or arranging an abortion to refer a patient seeking that servic...

Every profession today has a code of ethics which are used to hold their members to the highest degree of integrity and professional conduct. In engineering the observation and adherence to these ethics is of the upmost importance. Without a code of ethics to follow engineers could endanger the public and damage their profession’s reputation [8]. Biomedical engineers must take special considera...

Prearraignment forensic evaluations are forensic psychiatric evaluations performed on a suspect soon after his or her arrest. In the guise of ethics, the committee members who originated this code have imposed apparently personal and political views on all members of respective professional organizations in order to circumvent rulings of the judiciary, including the U.S. Supreme Court. The proh...

The aim of this study was to synthesize the concepts from empirical studies and analyze, compare and interrelate them with normative ethics. The International Council of Nurses (ICN) and the Health and Medical Service Act are normative ethics. Five concepts were used in the analysis; three from the grounded theory studies and two from the theoretical framework on normative ethics. A simultaneou...

Background: The coexistence of human beings requires the observance of moral etiquette, which is called civil ethics in ethics and leads to normative order. In order for civil ethics to have an executive guarantee, a set of laws was formed in the society under the title of civil procedure. One of the lawsuits in this regard is the harassment lawsuit. There are complex issues in the harassment l...

PREAMBLE It is in the nature of medical practice that it is always likely to yield ethical problems because of the role that health, illness and injury play in the lives of patients. Sports physicians can fi nd themselves in particularly diffi cult (though not unique) contexts because of the role of the body in athletic performance, especially at elite and professional levels. Contrary to recen...