Abstract This paper defends the view that we have special relationship duties do not derive from our moral duties. Our duties, I argue, are grounded in what call close relationships . Sharing a with another person, suggest, requires both people conceive of themselves as being motivated to promote other’s interests. So, staying true oneself demands committed promoting interests those whom share ...

I argue that agents can have duties to cooperate with one another if this increases their combined efficiency and/or efficacy in addressing ongoing collective moral problems. call these cooperative of and efficacy. focus particularly on how ought reason act the face global After setting out my account, a subset are justice virtue roles taken up.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of acute sleep deprivation on the level of perceived occupational stress and cognitive functioning in a group of medical residents. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Regional hospital, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-one residents who had regular in-hospital on-call duties. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES From January to April 2002, participants were asked to comp...

This article concerns the legal responsibilities of not-for-profit corporation directors in merges and affiliations with other not-for-profits. The article considers three sets of legal duties board members have, ancillary contractual obligations, madatory statutes and procedural laws, and contextual legal duties.

This article argues that the ordinary/extraordinary distinction has little or no moral value when preservation of life is not given a near absolute status. What is appealed to instead is a determination of both medical and moral duties, upon which appropriate treatment decisions should be based. Included is a partial delineation of those duties.