Showing papers on "Professional ethics published in 1974"

What is Medical Ethics

Abstract: Medical ethics does not have its own unique methods and principles. Rather, medical ethics is the enterprise of understanding the specialized facts and relationships of the medical world, ...

The social implications of the Australian Computer Society

Abstract: This paper notes the development of the Australian Computer Society, the discussion of its adoption of formal qualifications for entrance, and the problems encountered by the Society, and by overseas computer societies. The paper then questions the wisdom of basing a professional society on specific machinery, doubts the existence of a profession embraced by the Australian Computer Society, and suggests that social rather than professional objectives should be adopted by the Society.

Ethical professionals without support: A case in point

Abstract: Can Professional Engineering Societies, as presently constituted, support and protect engineers who respond to the call of professional ethics in protecting the public health, safety and welfare? If the experiences of the members of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Chapter in California, who came to the aid of three fired BART engineers, is any example, the answer probably is no.

What is ethics

Abstract: Before we can explore the relationship between science and ethics, we must be clear about the general nature of ethics. This is particularly important in the age in which we live, since the rate of socio-ethical change has increased with great rapidity. As we shall see throughout our discussion, if professionals such as physicians, veterinarians, or researchers wish to keep their autonomy and steer their own ships, they must be closely attuned in an anticipatory way to changes and tendencies in social ethics and adjust their behavior to them, else they can be shackled by unnecessarily draconian restriction. And, as we saw in chapter 1 there have been numerous and bewildering ethical changes that professionals and others must adjust to throughout the second half of the twentieth century. There I catalogued some of the bewildering array of major socio-ethical changes that had developed in the second half of the twentieth century. As we shall see, failure of any subgroup in society to adjust to these ethical charges can result in major loss of freedom. The first distinction that must be mastered is the difference between what I have called Ethics 1 and Ethics 2 . Ethics 1 , or morality, is the set of beliefs that society, individuals, or subgroups of society hold about good and bad, right and wrong, justice and injustice, fairness and unfairness. Ethics 2 , on the other hand, is the logical examination, critique, and study of Ethics 1 . What we are doing in this chapter and indeed in this book is Ethics 2 .