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Religious Perspectives On Business Ethics, Scott Paeth, Thomas O'Brien
Religious Perspectives On Business Ethics, Scott Paeth, Thomas O'Brien
Thomas W O'Brien
In the first anthology of its kind, Thomas O'Brien and Scott Paeth have gathered unique pieces from across religious perspectives to illustrate the growing influence and contribution of religion to the field of business ethics. Tackling such wide-ranging subjects as Jewish environmental ethics, Zen in the workplace, and Christian social ethics, this text is a valuable addition to business ethics courses.
Review Of Metaethical Subjectivism By Richard Double, Matthew Pianalto
Review Of Metaethical Subjectivism By Richard Double, Matthew Pianalto
Matthew Pianalto
"There are no objective values." Thus begins J.L Mackie's classic Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977), in which metaethical error-theory was originally expounded. Error-theory holds that although moral judgments appear to be about objective matters (e.g. what is really valuable, what we really ought to do), there is no good reason to believe that there are objective values, and so all moral judgments are false because they fail to refer. In Metaethical Subjectivism, Richard Double again makes the case for error-theory by focusing upon the fragmentary character of our moral intuitions and the apparent impossibility of corralling all of these …
Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Review Of The Literature Concerning Practical And Clinical Implications For Uk Doctors., M Hicks
Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks
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Access To Death Certificates: What Should Research Ethics Committees Require For Approval?, Tore Nilstun, Colleen Cartwright, Rurik Lofmark, L Deliens, Susanne Fischer, Guido Miccinesi, Michael Norup, Agnes Van Der Heide
Access To Death Certificates: What Should Research Ethics Committees Require For Approval?, Tore Nilstun, Colleen Cartwright, Rurik Lofmark, L Deliens, Susanne Fischer, Guido Miccinesi, Michael Norup, Agnes Van Der Heide
Professor Colleen M Cartwright
Purpose: To present and discuss the reactions of research ethics committees (RECs) in a number of countries when asked for approval of a study requiring access to death certificates to identify the physicians signing the certificates and to send them a four-page questionnaire about medical decisions made at the patient's end-of-life that could possibly have hastened death. Methods: A simple questionnaire were sent to the responsible national investigator in an international study (Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland) asking about the interactions between the national research group and the national/regional REC(s). Results: Different laws or guidelines were used …