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Healing The Effects Of Medical Errors: A Vision Of Justice As Wholeness, Christiane Catharine Schubert
Healing The Effects Of Medical Errors: A Vision Of Justice As Wholeness, Christiane Catharine Schubert
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
Medical errors cannot be avoided completely even when employing the greatest care and applying the most sophisticated medical technologies. They occur when organizational, human, technical, or environmental factors lead to unintentional failures which result in recognizable physical, mental, spiritual, or social harm to patients. Until recently, the medical profession has responded with silence while patients remained uncompensated or resorted to the legal system. Professional distancing undermines transparency and patient safety while medical malpractice litigation ruptures the fragile relationships between patients and healthcare providers in whom patients trust. Philosophically, these responses draw on the framework of deontological liberalism, promoting notions of …
On Human Migration And The Moral Obligations Of Business, Linda H. Harris
On Human Migration And The Moral Obligations Of Business, Linda H. Harris
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This work addresses to what extent businesses in the United States and the European Union have a moral obligation to participate in social integration processes in areas where they operate with the use of migrant laborers. It begins with the presupposition that a common framework as to what constitutes ethical behavior in business is needed and beneficial. It argues that the very industry that creates a need for migrant labor ought to also be involved in merging this labor successfully into the existing community and specifies that a discourse on business ethics and migration is gravely needed. This must be …