Ethical Issues in Genetics Research
Modern genetics poses some of the most significant ethical problems that science has ever faced. As a result of recent advances, scientists are now able to engineer...
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Ethics Overview
Ethics is the study of questions of morality, the search to understand what is right, wrong, good, and bad. It is the branch of philosophy that systematically studies moral ideals and ...
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Ethics in Social Research
The immediacy of subject matter in social science underscores the importance of ethical issues in research by social scientists. This is particularly true in sociology. A rat...
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Economics and Ethics
Economics often is regarded as the most successful of the social sciences in developing a scientific theory of social behavior. Therefore, economics is a science with manifest eth...
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Ethics Assessment Rubrics
The introduction of new engineering accreditation criteria that includes "an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility" has firmly established th...
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Ethics: Overview
From the perspective of science, technology, and ethics, ethics itself—that is, critical reflection on human conduct—may be viewed as a science, as a technology, and as ...
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Ethics
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines "ethics" as the "discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation," "a set of mo...
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Ethics
Personal rules for behavior.
Ethics are rules for behavior, based on beliefs about how things should be. Ethical statements involve: 1) assumptions about humans and their capacities; 2) logical...
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Ethics
The first recorded dynasty in Chinese history is the Shang (1766–1050 BCE). It came to an end when the Zhou family overthrew the Shang and justified its act on the grounds that the Shang...
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Ethics
Ethics is the branch of philosophy that tries to understand a familiar type of evaluation: the moral evaluation of people's character traits, their conduct, and their institutions. We sp...
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Ethics, History Of
The term ethics is used in three different but related ways, signifying (1) a general pattern or "way of life," (2) a set of rules of conduct or "moral code,&#x...
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Internalism and Externalism in Ethics
Among the various uses of the term internalism in ethics, there are two that are central and importantly different. In the following entry, these two uses will be...
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The controversy over the ethics of abortion centers around the question of when human life begins. Abortion opponents, believing the fetus to be a human being from the moment of conception, regard abo...
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On June 5, 1998, United States attorney general Janet Reno declared that doctors who prescribed lethal medicine to terminally ill patients would not be prosecuted. The decision overturned a Drug Enfor...
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Terminating a newborn infants life because they will be unable to live a normal life due to severe handicaps, is a very controversial issue in our country. It is debatable weather a disabled infant's...
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Today many of our traditional thoughts on current values have been challenged and even skewed. Although it is natural for an evolution of modern ethical thought, many values have been simply ignore...
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Control. Power. Decisions, who has the right to make them? Does the Government or a group have that right or does the individual have the right? Throughout history from our first book, the Bible, to o...
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Isn't it great how life has its ways of teaching us lessons? We all have been taught a lesson or two in life, and they aren't the kind that you learn in school either. These are the life lessons th...
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How deals science with moral values? Can they change due to certain aspects?
Throughout our life we have been taught moral values. Even when we were a child we were told that hurting others is wrong...
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What is Truth"
There is a tale about four blind men from India who are each placed at different points near an elephant. Each one of them is asked what an elephant is. The one with the trunk says, ...
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"Was Australia a working man's Paradise""
In the late 19th century, and the early 20th century, Australia was not a working man's paradise. Australia was not a working man's paradise durin...
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Despite the implementation of a certain code of conduct and belief system into most individual's everyday lives, the concept of ethics or moral philosophy remains a hazy area, left to be tackled by ph...
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"Beliefs; The university's role in instilling a moral code among students? None whatever, some argue" is an article written by Peter Steinfels. The article focuses on the opinion of several college pr...
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"Do good to those who do good to you, and harm to those who harm you."
This essay will be an exploration of the ethical viability of this statement through the evaluation of several ethical ideas and...
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Ethical Issues in Genetics Research
Ethics Overview
Ethics in Social Research
Economics and Ethics
Ethics
Ethics
Ethics
Ethics of Abortion
