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Update - November 2003, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Editorial
-- Hindu Perspectives on Genetic Enhancements in Humans
-- HIPAA: Privacy and Public Good
-- 2003 Graduates

Effects Of Moral Sensitivity And Moral Climate On Moral Reasoning, Marita Louise Mahoney

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

As healthcare professionals, psychology students and psychologists are expected to behave ethically and morally. It is assumed that moral and ethical reasoning in psychology students develops through exposure to ethical dilemmas within ethics classes and during clinical training experiences. Rest's Four Component Model of Moral Behavior, a neo-Kohlbergian approach to understanding moral development, posits an interaction of Moral Sensitivity, Moral Motivation, Moral Reasoning and Moral Character. Moral sensitivity, or awareness of a moral dilemma, is posited to cue the moral reasoning process, though little is known about how the training environment can facilitate or hamper such developments. Fifty".'two psychology-graduate students …

Update - January 2003, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Editorial
-- Of One Piece of Cloth: A Journey Discovering Personal and Social Ethics
-- Seventh-day Adventist, Social Policy, and Social Ethics
-- A Dream, the Way, and the Self
-- Seventh-day Adventist Call for Peace
-- Photos from the Contributors Convention . . .