Human Rights

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case looks at the a disciplinary technique used by prisons throughout the United States that has been challenged in court. The issue is a type of unsavory food called "Nutraloaf that is served to unruly prisoners instead of re...
Year: 2008
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Nutraloaf.pdf

Authors: Skipper, Robert Boyd ; Bellon, Christina ; Leever, Martin ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When an Earth Liberation Front activist is arrested and held in prison while awaiting trial, he asks to receive a vegan diet while in the facility, claiming that the vegan diet is based on his strongly held beliefs, which is the sam...
Year: 9999
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Vegan%20Prisioner.pdf

Authors: Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 1999, a fight broke out in the stands during a football game at Eisenhower High School in Decatur, Illinois. The fight involved no weapons, and no one was seriously injured. As the fight was caught on videotape, six students wh...
Year: 2000
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Fairness%20in%20Punishment.pdf

Authors: Gostin, Lawrence O.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Comments on the judicial dismantling of the American With Disabilities Act (ADAS) by the Rehnquist Court. Background on ADA; Decision of the court to narrow the definition of disability; Concepts from where the court based its inter...
Year: 2003

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Authors: de Wachter, Maurice A. M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Examines the final form of the 1996 draft Convention on Human Rights and Bioethics, which was approved for adoption by the Steering Committee on Bioethics (CDBI) of the Council of Europe. Potential abuses and dangers in the field of...
Year: 1997

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Authors: Cassell, Eric J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the principles applied in clinical medicine in Belmont, Tennessee. Discussion of the principle of beneficence; Recognition of the importance of the freedom of choice; Focus of medicine on functional abnormalities and path...
Year: 2000

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Authors: Appel, Jacob M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article offers views regarding the issue of whether physicians may refuse infertility treatments to patients on the basis of their sexual orientation. The article made reference of the issue in a lawsuit filed by Guadalupe Benit...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0053

Authors: Hinman, Lawrence ; Englehardt, Elaine ; Leever, Martin ; Robert Ladenson ; Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 2000, the FDA voted narrowly to continue a ban on gay men donating blood that was first imposed in 1985 as a response to the high rate of AIDS among that section of the population. While the American Red Cross argues that the co...
Year: 2001
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Banning%20Gay%20Men%20from%20Donating%20Blood.pdf

Authors: Hinman, Lawrence ; Englehardt, Elaine ; Leever, Martin ; Robert Ladenson ; Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The events of September 11, are posing new tensions between civil liberties and national security. Across the country, local law enforcement agencies, in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and conducting intervie...
Year: 2002
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Racial%20Profiling.pdf

Authors: Cox-White, Becky ; Englehardt, Elaine ; Connolly, Peggy ; Robert Ladenson ; Hinman, Lawrence ; Leever, Martin
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 1961, two women living in a secluded part of Rhodesia belonging to the Kalanga tribe came to their local witch doctor and expressed their fears that the drought in the area posed the threat of starvation for their entire tribe. T...
Year: 2001
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Native%20Customs%20and%20Colonial%20Law.pdf

Authors: Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Weigel, Christine ; Anestidou, Lida ; Robert Ladenson ; Connolly, Peggy ; Leever, Martin
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Bobbijean was placed in foster care following a petition from the Department of Health and Human Services in Rochers NY for her determination as a "neglected child." Bobbijean was the fourth child of her mother to be taken away by F...
Year: 2005
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/A%20Court%20Order%20Not%20to%20Get%20Pregnant.pdf

Authors: Connolly, Peggy ; Robert Ladenson ; Keller, David R. ; Cox-White, Becky ; Leever, Martin ; Anestidou, Lida
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In the book, "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks," civil rights activist Randall Robinson argues that the U.S. has an obligation to provide reparations to African Americans for slavery and legal discrimination. However, the idea ...
Year: 2003
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Slavery%20Reperations.pdf

Authors: Keller, David R. ; Leever, Martin ; Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy ; Anestidou, Lida ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When Samar Kaukab headed back home after attending a conference, she was subjected to an embarrassing search security officers at O'Hare Airport in Chicago. According to a lawyer from the American Civil Liberties Union, Ms. Kaukab ...
Year: 2003
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Racial%20Profiling%20of%20Arabs%20and%20Arab-Americans.pdf

Authors: Connolly, Peggy ; Robert Ladenson ; Keller, David R. ; Cox-White, Becky ; Leever, Martin ; Anestidou, Lida
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The International Criminal Court was created to take appropriate action in the even that authorities within a nation fail to prosecute series crimes against humanity, such as atrocities during war, genocide, and other violations of ...
Year: 2003
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/U.S.%20I%20mmunity%20from%20the%20International%20Criminal%20Court.pdf

Authors: Cox-White, Becky ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Connolly, Peggy ; Skipper, Robert Boyd
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 1993, a law was passed by Congress, that while homosexuals were ineligible to serve in the armed forces, in practice, recruiters were instructed not to ask about sexuality, and recruits were instructed not to reveal their sexual ...
Year: 2011
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Don't%20Ask%20Don't%20Tell.pdf

Authors: Anestidou, Lida ; Connolly, Peggy ; Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Weigel, Christine ; Robert Ladenson ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Leever, Martin
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: It is common practice for police detectives to use deception in police interrogations. Some strategies include lying to suspects about facts in the case or leading suspects to think that the detective empathizes with them and wants ...
Year: 2005
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Using Deceptive Techniques in Interrogations.pdf

Authors: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The U.S. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was enacted by congress in 1975 to assure a "free appropriate education" for all children with educational disabilities. Garrett F. is a children who was severely injured in a mot...
Year: 2000
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/IDEA.pdf

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The Fraternal Order of Policy has recently urged its membership to withhold contributions from the United Way to protest the charitable organization's providing a $250,000 grant to a small legal aid service that plans to provide att...
Year: 1995
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/United%20Way.pdf

Authors: Boxall, Susanna Flavia ; Diaz-Sprague, Raquel ; Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Funke, Michael Brian ; Potthast, Adam ; Myers, Gretchen A. ; Funke, Rhiannon Dodds
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Beyond disputes about the legality of the death penalty, some states have had difficulty implementing the death penalty for more practical reasons - the primary lethal injection drug, barbiturate sodium thiopental (BST) has become s...
Year: 2011
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Deadly%20Drug%20Run.pdf

Authors: Levan Institute Ethics Resource Center, University of Southern California
Publication Type: Teaching Module
Abstract: International companies are expected to play by the legal rules of where they do business. but what if playing by those rules means that companies are helping repressive governments to control or harm their citizens? The question be...
Year: 2011
URL: http://dornsife.usc.edu/googling-human-rights/

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 1994 voters in Berkeley, California voted to forbid people from sitting or lying within six feet of a building, from asking for money within ten feet of a cash machine, from begging from anyone getting in or out of a car, or from...
Year: 1996
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Berkley.pdf

Authors: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The laws of nearly all fifty states in the U.S. require proof of the use or threat of physical force in prosecutions for rape or criminal sexual assault. Women's rights groups and legal scholars have commented that laws of rape refl...
Year: 1999
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Rape.pdf

Authors: Gini, Al ; Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Secondary Title: AIDS : Crisis in Professional Ethics
Abstract: Statistics indicated that, while few of us will experience AIDS in private or family life, many will experience AIDS in the workplace. AIDS raises at least three fundamental questions for a manager: How should an employee with AIDS ...
Year: 1994

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Authors: Philosophy Documentation Center ; D. Cohen, Elliot ; Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: International Journal of Applied Philosophy
Abstract: Since Henry Shue’s classic 1978 paper on torture, the “ticking-bomb case” has seemed to demonstrate that torture is morally justified in some moral emergencies (even if not as an institution). After presenting an analysis of torture...
Year: 2005
URL: http://philosophy.csusb.edu/~tmoody/ijap192-Davis.pdf
DOI: 10.5840/ijap200519215