Professional ethics in the United States.

2016 ◽  
pp. 301-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald P. Koocher ◽  
Linda F. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
The United States

Perceived Conduct and Professional Ethics among College Economics Faculty

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N. Laband ◽  
Michael J. Piette
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Present Survey ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Perceived Severity ◽  
Economics Faculty ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Shed Light

We present survey results that shed light on the perceived frequency and severity of 61 professional practices. Our findings, based on questionnaires completed by 728 academic economists in the United States, suggest that most of the practices that might be considered ethically suspect also are perceived to occur relatively infrequently. The mean values for the responses to our survey are significantly lower, in absolute terms, than those recorded by Mason et al. (1990), who conducted an almost identical survey in 1987 of marketing academicians. However, in relative terms the perceived severity of these practices is highly consistent between economics faculty and marketing faculty.

What Is the Source of Moral Judgments?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Veatch ◽  
Amy Haddad ◽  
E. J. Last
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medication Errors ◽  
Oral Contraceptives ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professional Group ◽  
Professional Association ◽  
Moral Judgments

This chapter examines the source or “grounding” of ethical duties. Some believe that for professional ethics, the professional association (in the case of pharmacy in the United States, the American Pharmacists Association) is the source, but, at most, the professional group seems to be only the place where ethical duties of pharmacists are identified, and even that claim is controversial. Others claim the source is the orders of the physician or other prescriber of therapy, the hospital’s policy, the patient’s values, or religious or philosophical traditions. This chapter presents cases raising these issues dealing with compounding lethal agents for the execution of criminals, dispensing a potentially lethal opiate, honoring a terminally ill patient’s wishes to refuse an antibiotic, medication errors, an employer’s exclusion of an infertility drug from insurance coverage, and the pharmacist’s right to refuse to dispense oral contraceptives that violate his religious beliefs.

scholarly journals The President’s Mother the Anthropologist and the Anthropologist’s Son

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
David Lempert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Law ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Cultural Self

AbstractBarack Obama was the first son of a PhD anthropologist to serve as President of the United States, and some popular press linked his political views and actions, which were allegedly in violation of international law, to failures in American anthropology to uphold international law as well as to personal failures by anthropologists to transmit the professional ethics of the discipline to their offspring. This essay examines those critiques and identifies deficiencies in anthropological presentations of ‘multiculturalism’ and in anthropology’s adherence to international law. It also reviews the cultural self-identification of President Obama, drawing attention to the sub-cultures of ‘expat’ communities like those in which President Obama was raised and in which many practising anthropologists and their children live.

scholarly journals We’ve Been Framed! Ends, Means, and the Ethics of the Grand(iose) Challenges

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Riley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
The United States ◽  
Moral Imperative ◽  
Classroom Implementation ◽  
Grand Challenges ◽  
Problem Framing

Since the United States’ National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges were first publicly articulated in 2008, engineering educators have used its ideas to motivate their work. While there is a sense of moral imperative around pursuing selected Challenges, work that critically examines the ethics of the Grand Challenges has so far been rare. In this paper, examining the process surrounding the framing of the Grand Challenges generates a series of ethical questions about both the specifics of the Challenges and the processes that gave rise to them. A Grand Challenges lesson plan for classroom implementation focuses students on the ethics of problem framing, and the consideration of social justice questions as an integral part of professional ethics.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

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