Showing papers on "Professional ethics published in 1972"

The rights of the subject in social research: An analysis in terms of relative power and legitimacy.

Abstract: T HE increasing use of social research in American society and its increasing rele­ vance to public policy and social decisions have engendered widespread concerns about the ethical implications of such research activities. Briefly, these concerns are of two kinds: (a) con, cerns relating to the processes of social research, which are exemplified best by the issue of invasion of privacy and its various ramifications; and (b) concerns relating to the products of social research, which focus largely on the fear that social research may provide tools for controlling and manipulating human behavior and, more specifically, that these tools may be used by some segments of the society at the expense of others. Along with many social scientists, I share the conviction that hoth the process and the products of social research-both the attempt to ask syste­ matic and analytic questions about human behavior and social institu tions, and the answers provided by these attempts-are potentially liberating forces in our society. Social research, in my admittedly biased view, can and does contribule 10 enhancing the freedom of choice of the individual and 10 ex­ paDding the range of choices available to him. Yet,

APGA Members' Ethical Discriminatory Ability.

Abstract: APGA members' ethical discriminatory ability was investigated to determine if it were related to certain demographic variables A critical-incident questionnaire was sent to 1,238 APGA members, and 729 (589 percent) usable questionnaires were returned Single-classification analysis of variance and Scheffe post hoc analysis were used to determine significance Religious preferences, the amount of education, and the method of academic exposure to professional ethics were found to be related to ethical discriminatory ability

Medical Ethics: Professional or Universal?

Abstract: From the first, professional ethics has been a hybrid. The Hippocratic Oath exudes that ambiguity. The scientific enterprise, which basically has universalistic tendencies, created a group with special knowledge and interests; eventually it took on a separate identity as a profession. Concern for the ethical point of view, which has the universalizability of normative statements as its foundation, is particularized by focusing on a specialized body of knowledge of a restricted professional group.