Abstract Situationists maintain that psychological evidence (e.g., the well-known Good Samaritan experiment) challenges a key assumption of virtue ethics, namely virtuous people display cross-situational consistency behavior. This situationist critique is frequently thought to pose serious threat ethics. Virtue ethicists have so far mainly put forward conceptual rather than empirical arguments ...

BACKGROUND Teaching ethics in public health programmes is not routine everywhere - at least not in most schools of public health in the European region. Yet empirical evidence shows that schools of public health are more and more interested in the integration of ethics in their curricula, since public health professionals often have to face difficult ethical decisions. DISCUSSION The authors ...

In 2013 the Nuffield Council on Bioethics launched their report Novel Neurotechnologies: Intervening in the Brain. The report, which adopts the European Commission's notion of Responsible Research and Innovation, puts forward a set of priorities to guide ethical research into, and the development of, new therapeutic neurotechnologies. In this paper, we critically engage with these priorities. W...

Does university-level ethics instruction influence students’ practical behavior? Little direct empirical work has been done on this question. I briefly review the existing data: two studies on honesty in laboratory settings and two re-analyzable economics studies on donation to student charities. Although these data suggest no overall effect of ethics instruction on moral behavior, the research...

The academic field of medical ethics continues to evolve. One of the starkest features of this ongoing evolution is the increase in research studies that incorporate an empirical component. Although this trend is not new (Borry et al., 2006), empirical papers in the Journal of Medical Ethics now constitute a significant contribution to each and every issue. Disciplinary turf wars were a feature...

Robillard and Feng highlight incongruence between patient preferences and the procedural aspects of research ethics as they relate to protocols for dementia research. Their findings break ground for a reassessment of how research ethics, researchers, and participants (including patients and caregivers) approach participation in dementia research. However, it is unclear whether patient preferenc...

INTRODUCTION Real estate licensees, along with other business participants, are often subjected to various pressures that may compromise accepted ethical behavior. This paper examines the ethical values of real estate salespeople licensed in the state of Nevada. In particular, we examine five constructs, or domains, of ethics. The constructs investigated are; deceit (deceitful practices), fraud...

Journalism ethics theorizing is increasingly preoccupied with identifying and articulating universal norms and standards for media systems across various cultures. This study offers an empirical contribution to this topic by examining the ethical orientations of journalists in 18 countries. Country-level, or ideological, factors, rather than individuallevel variables, appear to have the greates...