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This book offers a practical guide to the most pressing ethical issues faced by those working in food manufacturing and associated industries. Early chapters look at the fundamentals of ethical thinking and how lessons of medical ethics might be applied to the food industry. The book then addresses some issues specifically relevant to the food industry, including treatment of animals; the use of genetically modified organisms; food product advertising; health claims and sustainability. Several further chapters present case studies which show how ethical thinking can be applied in real life

In Conscience in Reproductive Health Care, Carolyn McLeod responds to a growing worldwide trend of health care professionals conscientiously refusing to provide abortions and similar reproductive health services in countries where these services are legal and professionally accepted. She argues that conscientious objectors in health care should have to prioritize the interests of patients in receiving care over their own interest in acting on their conscience. McLeod defends this 'prioritizing approach' to conscientious objection over the more popular 'compromise approach' in bioethics-without downplaying the importance of health care professionals having a conscience or the moral complexity of their conscientious refusals. She begins with a description of what is at stake for the main parties to the conflicts generated by conscientious refusals in reproductive health care: the objector and the patient. Her central argument for the prioritizing approach is that health care professionals who are charged with gatekeeping access to services such as abortions are fiduciaries for their patients and for the public they are licensed to serve. As such, they have a duty of loyalty to these beneficiaries and must give primacy to their interests in gaining access to care. McLeod provides insights into ethical issues extending beyond the question of conscientious refusal, including the value of conscience and the fundamental moral nature of the relationships health care professionals have with current and prospective patients

This e-book on Emerging Technologies and Ethics includes a collection of essays which explore the future and ethics of emerging information and communication technologies. Articles in the collection include an overview of the legal implications which may be relevant to the ethical aspects of emerging technologies and also ethical issues arising from the mass-take up of mobile technologies

1. Ethics : what it is and what it is not -- 2. Thinking well about doing good -- 3. Foundational principles and using them to think well -- 4. The practicalities of ethical decision making -- 5. Beyond ethical decision making -- 6. Professional ethical identity : the foundation for doing good well -- 7. Competence : doing good and avoiding harm -- 8. Competence in practice, research, and teaching -- 9. Respecting others with informed consent -- 10. Confidentiality : doing good, avoiding harm, and maintaining trust / with Randi Smith -- 11. Professional boundaries and conflicts of interest : providing benefit and avoiding harm -- 12. Sexualized professional relationships : clearly causing harm -- 13. Social justice : beyond being fair, to advocacy.

In any event, all abortion laws--especially the newer laws--are rather elastic. I presume that they will be applied rigidly or leniently depending upon the attitude of the physician. Given a liberal attitude, I suppose the deciding factor would be whether the woman concerned wishes to have the baby or prefers to terminate the pregnancy. I have a feeling that any woman in the United States today who takes the latter attitude will have an abortion, therapeutic or non-therapeutic, medical or lay. In the long run, legislation against abortions is like any legislation against sin; it is commendable but ineffectual.

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABSTRACT -- I. - INTRODUCTION -- The Moral Domain -- Conventional and Guerrilla Warfare -- II. - THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE MORAL DOMAIN OF THE CONVENTIONAL SOLDIER. -- Importance of the Primary Group -- Unit-Esprit -- Manpower allocation -- Training -- Discipline -- Leadership -- Ideology -- Rewards -- Preconceptions of Combat -- Aspects of Combat -- Combat Stress -- Combat Behavior -- III. - ANALYSIS OF THE MORAL DOMAIN OF THE GUERRILLA -- The Yugoslavian Partisans. 1941-44 -- The Viet Cong. 1960-75 -- Factors Affecting the Moral Domain and the Guerrilla Importance of the Primary Group -- Unit Esprit -- Manpower Allocation -- Socialization -- Training -- Discipline -- Leadership -- Ideology -- Rewards -- Preconceptions of Combat -- Aspects of Combat -- Combat Stress -- Combat Behavior -- IV. - CONCLUSIONS -- V. - IMPLICATIONS -- Appendix 1 (Organization of the People's Liberation Armed Force ) -- Appendix 2 (Organization of the People's Liberation Armed Force ) -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Government Publications -- Books -- Reports -- Journal and Magazine Articles -- Unpublished Dissertations. Thesis and Papers -- Interviews.

"In architecture, ethics are malleable. In theory, the terms are rigid, yet the reality is elastic. Although much of the built environment is ostensibly designed for an individual client's needs, architecture's effects reverberate politically, environmentally and culturally, often in unexpected ways and far beyond the limits of any parcel or project. This issue of Perspecta considers the ethical questions and moral tensions that arise during the ideation, development, completion and aftermath of the design process"--Foreword

How can philosophy guide our understanding of and approach to counseling ethics and techniques? Moving beyond the standard review of ethical issues and basic problem solving, this highly engaging new text for counseling professionals features innovative, experiential activities and case studies that promote in-depth thinking about the ethical, moral, and legal issues often confronted by counseling professionals. The book is designed to help counselors develop an appreciation for and confidence in their preferred set of philosophical ethics and become ethically autonomous professionals. To this end, it examines a full range of philosophical approaches to ethics, such as the well-known concepts of ethics codes and laws, as well as the less familiar ideas of existential phenomenology, care ethics, and virtues. Featuring contributions from leading counselor educators and practitioners representing a wide range of expertise in counseling specialties and ethical practice, this text presents ethical practice from a positive, proactive point of view rather than from a reactive or fear-based stance. It provides a solid foundation in ethical decision making, critical thinking, and best practices that will enable counseling professionals to navigate the maze of ethical codes and standards of care, while confidently practicing in a consistently ethical manner. The accompanying Instructor's Manual offers step-by-step guidance on how to facilitate classroom activities and case study discussions, as well as a sample syllabus and a selection of quiz and essay questions to enhance students' understanding of each chapter. The text is congruent with relevant ethical codes and CACREP curriculum standards. Key Features:.: Provides activity-based learning regarding all the ethical standards and legal issues counselors will face; Promotes in-depth critical thinking and

The Moral Weight of Ecology: Public Goods, Cooperative Duties, and Environmental Politics is a meticulous examination of the beliefs held by environmentalists and anti-environmentalists alike. It is unique in the "environmental philosophy" genre insofar as it defends positions beholden to neither the mainstream or radical environmental movement nor their libertarian and "free-market" policy counterparts.

"Artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data based applications in accounting and auditing have become pervasive in recent years. However, research on the societal implications of the widespread and partly unregulated use of AI- and Big Data in several industries remains scarce despite salient and competing utopian and dystopian narratives. This book focuses on the transformation of accounting and auditing based on AI and Big Data. It not only provides a thorough and critical overview of the status-quo and the reports surrounding these technologies, but also presents a future outlook on the ethical and normative implications concerning opportunities, risks and limits. The book discusses topics such as future, human-machine collaboration, cybernetic approaches to decision making, and ethical guidelines for good corporate governance of AI-based algorithms and Big Data in accounting and auditing. It clarifies the issues surrounding the digital transformation in this arena, delineates its boundaries, and highlights the essential issues and debates within and concerning this rapidly developing field. The authors develop a range of analytic approaches to the subject, both appreciative and sceptical, and synthesise new theoretical constructs that make better sense of human-machine collaborations in accounting and auditing. This book offers academics a variety of new research and theory building on digital accounting and auditing from and for accounting and auditing scholars, economists, organisations and management academics and political and philosophical thinkers. Also, as a landmark work in a new area of current policy interest, it will engage regulators and policy makers, reflective practitioners and media commentators through its authoritative contributions, editorial framing and discussion, and sector studies and cases"--