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Ethical issues in professional life

Authors: Callahan, Joan C.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This anthology includes a large number of readings covering topics such as the moral foundations of professional ethics, models of the professional-client relationship, deception, informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, profe...
Year: 1988

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-14 13:03

The Sole Remaining Supplier

Authors: Shanks, Thomas, S. J.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: What are the ethical questions involved when a company is the only supplier of a high-risk, life-saving product?...
Year: 1996
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/supplier.html

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-10-29 14:24

Secrets : on the ethics of concealment and revelation

Authors: Bok, Sissela
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book examines the distinction that can be drawn between secrecy and privacy, why both are needed in many situations, and when secrets are desirable, such as the need to preserve surprise, and situations where secrets can be har...
Year: 1984

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-10 14:36

Pharmaceutical Decisions in Response to Epidemics: A Case Study

Authors: Armitage, Bob ; Reid, J. Leighton ; Randall, Vernellia ; Meyer, Michael ; Bachman, Sarah ; Hanson, Kirk O.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: As an epidemic spreads through a fictitious country in the developing world, various stakeholders debate the responsibility of a drug company with the patent on a life-saving treatment. This video presentation, from the Ethics Cente...
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/pharmaceuticals-and-epidemics.html

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-11-10 11:31

The Outbreak

Authors: Hanson, Kirk O.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This fictionalized case addresses the ethical issues confronting governments, NGOs, and pharmaceutical companies when faced with an epidemic. Includes a video presentation of the case. ...
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/outbreak.html

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-11-10 11:16

Ethics and the business of biomedicine

Authors: Arnold, Denis Gordon
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This anthology focuses on ethical questions raised by the changes that are sweeping healthcare worldwide, such as the availability of new expensive biotechnologies in industrialized nations, questions pertaining to the business of h...
Year: 2009

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-02-23 16:01

Profits before people? : ethical standards and the marketing of prescription drugs

Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: Bioethics and the humanities;
Abstract: This book investigates some of the ethical issues inherent in the pharmaceutical industry, including questions about information on advertising, conflicts of interest, cost of pharmaceuticals, direct to consumer advertising, adverti...
Year: 2006

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-02-23 16:01

Prescription Drug Advertising (Case 15)

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Direct to consumer advertising of prescription drugs has been increasing in the last few years. Some critics see that drug companies have a conflict of interest that keeps them from presenting unbiased information about their produc...
Year: 2008
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Case%2015.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-12 12:49

Pay-for-Performance for Doctors (Case 10)

Authors: Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Bellon, Christina ; Skipper, Robert Boyd ; Connolly, Peggy ; Brinkman, Anthony
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In order to control heath care costs, some insurance companies have tried a pay-for-performance approach where physicians are payed more if or less if they fail to meet certain benchmarks, such as seeing a set number of patients a d...
Year: 2008
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Case%2010.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-12 12:48

Women and Health Insurance

Authors: Carr, Sarah ; Dillard, Brenda ; Funke, Rhiannon Dodds ; Boxall, Susanna Flavia ; Diaz-Sprague, Raquel ; Carr, Edward ; Potthast, Adam ; Elliott, Deni ; Funke, Michael Brian ; Price, Connie
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Women who buy insurance as an individual pay up to 20% to 50% higher premiums than men for the same insurance coverage. While insurance companies argue that these higher premiums are justified, as women use more healthcare services...
Year: 2009
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Women%20and%20Health%20Insurance.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-09 12:11

Medical Outsourcing

Authors: Carr, Edward ; Boxall, Susanna Flavia ; Dillard, Brenda ; Carr, Sarah ; England, Renee ; Funke, Rhiannon Dodds ; Elliott, Deni ; Potthast, Adam ; Diaz-Sprague, Raquel ; Price, Connie
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: As the cost as heath care in the United States continues to rise, many Americans are seeking cheaper medical treatment in foreign countries. Countries such as India and Thailand offer surgeries that can be as much as seventy to eig...
Year: 2008
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Medical%20Outsourcing.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-09 12:09

Google Health

Authors: Carr, Sarah ; Dillard, Brenda ; Funke, Rhiannon Dodds ; Boxall, Susanna Flavia ; Diaz-Sprague, Raquel ; Carr, Edward ; Potthast, Adam ; Elliott, Deni ; Funke, Michael Brian ; Price, Connie
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Google Health allows users to create their own electronic medical records online, with the capability to enter and managed health information and access it online from anywhere. Experts have touted electronic medical records as a w...
Year: 2009
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Google%20Health.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-09 12:10

fMRI and Lie Detection

Authors: Connolly, Peggy ; Leever, Martin ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Skipper, Robert Boyd ; Bellon, Christina ; Brinkman, Anthony
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Imaging technologies, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have proven to be a powerful diagnostic tool in clinical medicine, and a recent innovation, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allows neuroscientists to track ...
Year: 2007
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/fMRI.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-15 16:25

Puredrug

Authors: Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Puredrug, a large pharmaceutical company that has recently fallen on hard times, has the chance to sigh an $8 million sales contract with the Philippine Government for a new drug called Travenol used for treating viral infections, i...
Year: 1996
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Puredrug.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-23 15:50

Professions, Confidentiality, and Moral Uncertainty

Authors: Lockhart, Ted
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: This article discusses questions of confidentiality for the professions and tries to answer the question, when should professionals maintain client confidentiality, and when is it more important to protect endangered third parties?...
Year: 1992

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:37

Online social research : methods, issues & ethics

Authors: Johns, Mark D. Chen Shing-Ling Hall G. Jon
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: Digital formations
Abstract: This anthology seeks to help researchers conducting surveys, interviews and observations online adopt traditional research methods for effective online re search. The authors discuss critical issues that are often encountered in on...
Year: 2004

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-07-14 13:41

Professional Standards for Joint Authorship and the Assigning of Credit for Joint Publications

Authors: Tanner, John R. ; Hamilton Iii, J. Brooke ; Greco, Anthony J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: The authors discuss the problems surrounding the distribution of credit for joint activities, and standards for how to allocate this credit. The authors developed a questionaire focuing on joint authorship and related ethical concer...
Year: 1996

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:35

Outwitting Insurers

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A recent insurance scam involved a lawyer and investors recruiting terminally ill patients, providing them money for the purchase of a variable annuity contracts, used those patients names, and listed themselves as beneficiaries. Th...
Year: 2010
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Outwitting%20Insurers.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-08 09:49

The Codes of Ethics Used by the Professions in Australia

Authors: Cobbin, Deirdre M. ; Farrell, Brian J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: The study analyzes the characteristics and contents of 35 codes of ethics from the professions in Australia. Code material is classified according to categories reported by other researchers (inspirational and prescriptive), and acc...
Year: 1999

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:33

Opinion: Gene patenting and medical research: a view from a pharmaceutical company

Authors: Stott, Mike ; Valentine, Jill
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Abstract: In this article the authors seek to evaluate the impact of gene patenting objectively by examining, in overall terms, whether there has been a net cost or benefit to medical research from gene patenting. ...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1038/nrd1348

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:42

The improbable future of employment-based health insurance

Authors: Banja, John D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the argument of economists in the United States that employees pay virtually the entire cost of employment-based health insurance. Implications of the economic view; Illustrative example of the wage differentials; Reasons...
Year: 2000

Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 13:10

Medical joint-venturing: An ethical perspective. (Cover story)

Authors: Greenberg, R. M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Argues that joint ventures and limited partnerships by doctors may involve conflict of interest and ethical questions. Legal controversies; Medicare and Medicaid laws; Patient trust....
Year: 1990

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:55

The Costs of Caring: Who Pays? Who Profits? Who Panders?

Authors: Fleck, Leonard M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the increase in health care costs in the U.S. Problems resulting from the high costs of medications such as drop coverage of health insurance and distortion of healthcare priorities; Reason cited for increase in medical c...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0040

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:48

Taking Money from the Drug Industry: The Rules Tighten

Authors: Elliott, Carl
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on a compliance guide issued by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in April 2003 regarding the federal anti-kickback law that prohibits drug manufacturers from makin...
Year: 2003

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:43

The Bioethics of Business: Rethinking the Relationship between Bioethics Consultants and Corporate Clients

Authors: De Vries, Raymond ; Bosk, Charles L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses how bioethics works in the pharmaceutical industry. Narration of mistreatment experienced by George, an employee in a pharmaceutical company; Influence of money on scholarly work and medical advice; Discussion of the ethic...
Year: 2004

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:35