This article explores power relations between clinicians, patients and families as clinicians engage in patient-centred ethical work. Specifically, we draw on actor-network theory to interrogate the role of non-human elements in distributing power relations in clinical settings, as clinicians attempt to manage the expectations of patients and families. Using the activities of a multidisciplinar...

In this paper, we introduce a new measure of personal ethics in the form of marital cheating to examine the relationship between personal ethics and corporate misconduct. Firms with CEOs and CFOs who use a marital infidelity website are more than twice as likely to engage in two forms of corporate misconduct. The relationship is not explained by a wide range of regional, firm, and executive cha...

A distinction between forms of social identity formation in small interactive groups is investigated. In groups in which a common identity is available or given, norms for individual behavior may be deduced from group properties (deductive identity). In groups in which interpersonal relations are central, a group identity may also be induced from individual group members' contributions, making ...

In this paper, we describe a novel user interface for the visual defin ition of temporal abstractions based on a set of intuitive metaphors, which re present both temporal features and logical relations of abstractions.

“We had an in-house Environmental Services program struggling to meet our standards,” says CEO Paul Clark. “We were committed to increasing quality, productivity, and patient satisfaction; we also wanted to raise our staff morale and lower turnover. After study, we concluded we could not achieve these objectives with an inhouse solution, and needed the professional leadership, structured system...

It is said thatMedicine is a science of probabilities whereas the practice of medicine is more an art than science. It is certainly an art to tailor the therapy to suit a particular individual, to explain the therapeutic options, to guide them in choosing the best possible one, to make the treatment cost-effective, to communicate with an unsatisfied patient with empathy, to disclose the news of...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Ethical principles guide professional conduct, particularly in establishing the doctor-patient relationship and, therefore, require constant reflection. The purpose of this study is to analyze ethical experiences of anesthesiologists in their interaction with the patient under their care. METHOD This was an exploratory study involving 16 active anesthesiologists at a ...

Global Governance has become a buzzword in the social sciences in general and in International Relations (IR) in particular. Many different phenomena, from the influence of civil society on international decision-making processes to the role of intergovernmental organisations and transnational corporations in world politics, are invoked as examples of global governance. However, upon closer ins...