Planned home birth has been considered by some to be consistent with professional responsibility in patient care. This article critically assesses the ethical and scientific justification for this view and shows it to be unjustified. We critically assess recent statements by professional associations of obstetricians, one that sanctions and one that endorses planned home birth. We base our crit...

BACKGROUND As socioeconomic health inequalities persist and widen, the health effects of adversity are a constant presence in the daily work of physicians. Gruen and colleagues suggest that, in responding to important population health issues such as this, defining those areas of professional obligation in contrast to professional aspiration should be on the basis of evidence and feasibility. D...

The number of science editors' associations is growing to resolve a variety of professional problems. The main objective of the associations is to educate their members by facilitating dissemination of information, publishing scholarly journals, books, networking of experts, and regular meetings. There are many science editing associations - general and specialized, traditional, and new. The ar...

Neither practitioners nor scientists appear to be fully satisfied with the world's largest behavior-analytic membership organization. Each community appears to believe that initiatives that serve the other will undermine the association's capacity to serve their own needs. Historical examples suggest that such discord is predicted when practitioners and scientists cohabit the same association. ...

Ann Tourigny Turner 1, Ekaterina Botovchenco Rivera 2 and Cynthia Pekow 3,* 1 American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS), 9190 Crestwyn Hills Drive, Memphis, TN 38125-8538, USA; [email protected] 2 Brazilian Association for Laboratory Animal Science (SBCAL), Av. Prof. Dr. Orlando de Paiva, 87, Cidade Universitária, Sao Paulo, CEP 05508-270, Brazil; [email protected]...

Professional associations are expected to maintain a reasonable standard of behavior regarding how they market their service bases. Prior research indicates that the use written marketing ethics is not standardized and business codes potential base for universal code from which all professionals could draw. We document analysis review several professional associations’ conduct across industries...