This report of the American Psychiatric Association's task force on research ethics addresses ethical issues related to the conduct of research involving human participants with mental illness. The report includes discussion of recruitment and ongoing participation of persons whose decisional capacity may be impaired and the ethical costs of categorically excluding persons with serious mental i...

OBJECTIVES While clinical practice is complicated by many ethical dilemmas, clinicians do not often request ethics consultations. We therefore investigated what triggers clinicians' requests for ethics consultation. DESIGN Cross-sectional telephone survey. SETTING Internal medicine practices throughout the United States. PARTICIPANTS Randomly selected physicians practising in internal med...

Consideration is given to the dilemmas faced by engineers, if and when conflicts arise between the individual’s sense of social responsibility and his specific technical interests. A specialized topic included with these is the protection required for whistle-blowers. In general, it is asserted that creating a climate in which ethical behaviour may flourish should be considered as one of the mo...

The process of administering nutritious sustenance through a tube into the gut while avoiding the mouth and swallowing mechanisms is a nice example of collaboration or conflict between health care professionals arising from their medical, ethical and legal concerns. Two recent articles in the Journal' have drawn attention to these concerns and it is timely to analyse them further. When ethical ...

India has a very rich heritage in terms of Ethics, Morals and Values, problems arise where individuals allow their personal values to interfere with their actions, thereby potentially bringing their actions into conflict with stated ethical standards. Education plays a crucial role in all round development of the personality of an individual. But the present education system needs to pay more a...

A number of specific and commonly recognized moral principles have been articulated for application in the realm of health care ethics. Some ethicists, notably Beauchamp and Childress (2004), have used such principles as a primary framework for ethical analysis and dialogue. In this approach, referred to as principlism, each principle represents a serious, though not absolute, moral duty that m...

After reading this study, two important ethical issues have emerged first; the claims made by company are exaggerated and second, results seem to be generalized to all children without any regard to the study results. Methodological and ethical issues related to the study are; not declaring conflict of interest and source of support by authors, unclear randomization, not following intention to ...

Demography is impregnated, more or less explicitly, with ethical contents. This is apparent in the words used to support data, which change over time (e.g., the term “illegitimate child” is no longer used). Ethical principles must be analyzed because demography concerns both public policies and individual choice. There is a conflict in this area between the idea of the ethical state, dictating ...