Malpractice reforms tend to reduce physician liability for harming patients. Because these reforms are passed at the state level, the costs of harming patients vary widely by geographic location. In this paper, I test whether malpractice reforms affect where physicians choose to practice and whether physicians who relocate in response to reforms are particularly prone to commit malpractice. Bec...

In this paper, I argue that it is quite useful, both theoretically and empirically, to adopt a sociocultural approach to the study of moral development. This entails viewing ‘moral functioning’ as a form of mediated action, and moral development as the process by which persons gradually appropriate a variety of ‘moral mediational means’. Mediated action entails two central elements: an ‘agent’,...

A long-lived firm sells a good to a sequence of consumers, where the good’s quality imperfectly depends on the firm’s unobservable e§ort. To solve the moral hazard problem, the firm can promise to pay damages (formal sanctions) or facilitate reputational punishment (informal sanctions). Formal sanctions engender litigation costs and possible court error while informal sanctions involve ine¢cien...

The writer explores Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, where Smith presents a rich and provocative account of morality. The writer offers an explication of Smith's moral psychology as a stage theory of moral development, with the intention of generating critical points on both mattes of detail and larger implications.

We analyze the regulation of firms that undertake socially risky activities and can reduce the probability of an accident inflicted on thirdparties by carrying out nonverifiable effort. Congress delegates the regulatory task to an Agency, though they may have have different preferences towards the industry. We determine the optimal level of discretion left by Congress to the Agency, showing a t...

this article explores the forms of moral repair that the wrongdoer has to perform in an attempt to make amends for her past wrongdoing, with a focus on the issues of interpersonal moral repair; that is, what a wrongdoer can do to merit her victim‘s forgiveness and achieve reconciliation with her community. the article argues against the very general demands of atonement that amount to an obliga...

Organ transplantation has been described “with only slight exaggeration [as] usher[ing] in the age of bioethics” as it has focused public attention on the practice and its associated ethical issues. These compelling ethical issues have inspired a voluminous body of writing in the medical, legal and philosophical literature. These authors debate the intrinsic morality of transplantation. Long-st...

Em posição de humildade, espero estar à altura para resenhar “Formas Não Monetárias Reparação do Dano Moral”, obra um autor tão capacitado, e que, além seus gabaritos acadêmicos, congrega inúmeras outras qualidades pessoais, notadamente a cordialidade, humanidade dedicação com que abraça projetos. Cícero Dantas Bisneto é doutorando em Direito Civil pela Universidade São Paulo, mestre Federal da...

results there was a negative significant relationship between moral sensitivity and moral distress frequency; there was a positive significant relationship between moral sensitivity and moral distress intensity. participating in medical ethics courses increased moral sensitivity and decreased the frequency of moral distress. conclusions participating in medical ethics courses increased moral se...