Formal clinical ethics review first developed in the USA and most hospitals there have structures in place. This is often a clinical ethics committee. Developments have been slower in the UK, where there has been uncertainty and variability about the role of clinical ethics committees. Even in the USA, their exact role is uncertain. Although we now have a good idea of the mechanisms for ethical...

Research ethics review is an important process, designed to protect participants in medical research. However, it is increasingly criticised for failing to meet its aims. Here, two researchers reflect on their experiences of applying for ethical approval of observational research in clinical settings. They highlight some problems faced by reviewers and researchers and propose a two-stage ethica...

Background: Considering the crucial role of healthy communication and adherence to the ethical principles of workplace, this study aims to investigate the association between workaholism and occupational ethics with the mediating role of work-family conflict among the medical staff members of health centers in Bojnourd County. Material and Methods: This is a descriptive-correlational study. Th...

Patient autonomy may conflict with the professional's need to practice beneficently. A case is presented showing this conflict. This incompatibility between two cardinal virtues in healthcare ethics is analyzed in terms of the philosopher Immanuel Kant's dictum that individual autonomy cannot be abridged. The tension between these two ethical principles is also discussed in terms of the 2008 vo...

Purpose Debates on the ethics of disaster and humanitarian studies concern unequal relations in research (among institutes/researchers/stakeholders); physical psychological well-being participants researchers; imposition western methods, frameworks epistemologies to study disasters. This paper focuses everyday ethics: how they need be translated throughout practices researchers can deal with et...