Ethics category: 8196 books
Ethics, Law and Society
Volume IV
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This key collection brings together a selection of papers commissioned and published by the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society. It incorporates contributions from a group of international experts along with a selection of short opinion pieces written in response to specific ethical issues....
by Patrick Keeney
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Academic ethics are currently much in the news but there is a great deal of uncertainty, both as to what constitutes specifically academic ethics and about a number of issues that are taken to be issues of academic ethics. This collection of papers focuses on both questions, moving from consideration...
Ethics in Everyday Places
Mapping Moral Stress, Distress, and Injury
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
An exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds.
In Ethics in Everyday Places, ethicist and geographer Tom Koch considers what happens when, as he puts it, “you do everything right but...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
This handbook highlights the growing tensions surrounding the current dominant ethical clearance model which is increasingly being questioned, particularly in critical research. It draws on stories from the field in critical research conducted in a range of contexts and countries and on an array of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A concern for the ethical instruction and formation of students has always been a part of American higher education. Yet that concern has by no means been uniform or free from controversy. The centrality of moral philosophy in the undergraduate curriculum during the mid-19th Century gave way later...
From the Universities to the Marketplace: The Business Ethics Journey
The Second Annual International Vincentian Conference Promoting Business Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
From the Universities to the Marketplace: The Business Ethics Journey arose from the awareness of the slow progression of academic theory into market practice. The contributions in this volume reflect a diversity of disciplines and approaches to research, study and teaching business ethics, such as...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
The ethics of sports medicine is an important emerging area within biomedical ethics. The professionalization of medical support services in sport and continuing debates around issues such as performance-enhancing technologies or the health and welfare of athletes mean that all practitioners in sport,...
Undoing Ethics
Rethinking Practice in Online Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2012
Over the past decade, researchers from different academic disciplines have paid increasing attention to the productivity of online environments. The ethical underpinnings of research in such settings, however, remain contested and often controversial. As traditional debates have been reignited by...
by Pete Geissler, Bill O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Ethics - described briefly as the norms by which acceptable and unacceptable behaviors are measured - has been the concern and perhaps the great dilemma of sentient humans since Socrates subjected it to philosophical inquiry almost 2,500 years ago. Socrates believed, without universal acceptance,...
Business Ethics in Theory and Practice
Contributions from Asia and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book originated in a symposium on business ethics that took place in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Canterbury in September of 1997. Professor Werhane, who was a visiting Erskine Fellow, provided the keynote address, and many of the papers in this collection were originally presented...
Ethics, Law and Governance of Biobanking
National, European and International Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Biobank research and genomic information are changing the way we look at health and medicine. Genomics challenges our values and has always been controversial and difficult to regulate. In the future lies the promise of tailored medical treatments and pharmacogenomics but the borders between medical...
Community over Chaos
An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
This ecology of ethics seeks to balance the needs of the individual and those of the various levels of community.
As James A. Mackin, Jr., shows, both modernism and postmodernism have undermined the traditional foundations for ethics. Using an ecological model, however, Community over Chaos...
The Ethics of Technology
Methods and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Our daily lives are affected by new technologies at an ever increasing rate. It is becoming more and more important to assess future technologies from an ethical point of view, and to do this before they are introduced on a massive scale. Such assessments require systematic use of many different kinds...
by Anthony Serafini
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2000
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Ethics and Social Concern gives undergraduate students an overview of key issues in the three major fields of applied ethics: Business, Medicine, and Mass Media/Journalism. Anthony Serafini has collected the most poignant essays and articles...