In the third of a series of articles examining ethical issues in primary care research, we argue that family doctors, when considering what they ought to do in relation to research, have a positive obligation to participate in research and that one means of discharging this obligation is to collaborate in research studies by aiding recruitment. We offer three arguments in support of this obliga...

According to Fox’s (2000) recent history of the Great Depression in Victoria, efforts to assist the unemployed were characterised by an overarching desire to ‘remoralise’ unemployed people and promote a ‘reinvigorated work ethic’. Book reviewer, Brian Dickey summarises Fox’s argument saying that ‘the notion that the unemployed had lost their moral standing and hence their rights to full partici...

We present a qualitative, decision-theoretic account for statements of the form: "You ought to do A, if C". We show that adding a qualitative causal theory (in the form of a graph) as part of an epistemic state is sufficient to facilitate the analysis of action sequences, their consequences, their interaction with observations, their expected utilities and, hence, the assertability of condition...

arbitrator or private judge must be independent and impartial. domestic and international commercial arbitration law in many countries in addition to the obligation, the independence and impartiality of arbitrator, has other obligations, namely the obligation to disclose. arbitrator must disclose any relationship with the parties to arbitration. commitment to disclosure should not be mixing wit...