Information technology practitioners are required to make calls of judgement in both a technical and a professional capacity. Professional codes of conduct and codes of ethics are intended to provide guidance in making such calls of judgement. This paper looks at the Australian Computer Society code of ethics in the light of the information technology strategies employed by the Australian telec...

As part of a project on professionals' lived experience of ethics, this article explores the guiding concepts and values concerning ethics of mental health professionals in Cuba. The data, obtained through individual interviews and focus groups with 28 professionals, indicate that Cubans conceptualize applied ethics in terms of its central role in professional practice and its connection to the...

The earliest code of ethics for health educators appears to be the 1976 SOPHE Code of Ethics, developed to guide professional behaviors toward the highest standards of practice for the profession. Following member input, Ethics Committee Chair, Elizabeth Bernheimer and Paul Mico refined the Code in 1978. Between 1980 and 1983 renewed attention to the code of ethics resulted in a revision that w...

Although the number of incidents is unknown, professional quality-oriented renal organizations have become aware of an increased number of complaints regarding nephrologists who approach patients with the purpose of influencing patients to change nephrologists or dialysis facilities (hereinafter referred to as patient solicitation). This development prompted the Forum of ESRD Networks and the R...

(p. 142); the meaningless Arabic 'rs proves to be a corruption of the name of the Lydian city of Daldis (p. 196); the obvious error of translating pi'sos "peas", as aruzz, "rice", is quite plausibly explained in terms of a corruption in the Greek text available to the Arabic translator (p. 196). One is frequently struck by unexpected ways in which Arabic translators took their own vocabulary to...

Avariety of medical professional societies have developed ethics practice guidelines or position statements regarding specific ethics issues (1–6). The Endocrine Society published its Code of Ethics for practice in 2001 (1); however, none of the practice guidelines are specific to thyroidology. In the field of thyroidology, specific clinical ethics issues arise in different clinical contexts. F...

Society in the 21st century is in many ways different from society in the 1950s, the 1960s or the 1970s. Two of the most important changes relate to the level of education in the population and the balance between work and private life. These days a large percentage of people are highly educated. Partly as a result of economic progress in the 1950s and the 1960s and partly due to the fact that ...

PURPOSE/METHODS This study investigated the relationship between ethics education and training, and the use and usefulness of ethics resources, confidence in moral decisions, and moral action/activism through a survey of practicing nurses and social workers from four United States (US) census regions. FINDINGS The sample (n = 1215) was primarily Caucasian (83%), female (85%), well educated (5...