... the
Association of Teachers of Ethics and Law in Australian and New Zealand Medical
Schools. Med J Aust 2001; 175: 205–210.
3. Breen KJ, Plueckhahn VD, Cordner SM. Ethics, Law and Medical Practice. Allen &
Unwin, ... needed for
good medical practice; indeed the UK General Medical Council’s primer for doc-
tors is called just that, Good Medical Practice [4]....
... guidelines and the standard of professional practice,
and about the attitude of those involved to auditing and accounting rules, legal
and otherwise, and the ways in which they are interpreted and applied. ... spheres of activity; (1) the practice of auditor(s), (2) the manage-
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ment and culture of auditing firms, and (3) the setting of auditing...
... Philosophy and Moral Science at Gent University.
She teaches courses in ethics, medical ethics, bioethics and environmental ethics.
She is also a member of the Belgian Advisory Committee on Bioethics.
Dr ... technology, ethics and law in
society) and Honorary Professor in Law at the University of Sheffield. His recent
books include Human Rights (2004) and (with Deryck...
... developmental, cognitive and
other ‘‘core areas’’ of psychology) was sufficient to enable the government in
England and Wales to produce an official guidance document entitled
Memorandum of Good Practice on ... important issue.
In England and Wales, the government’s Memorandum of Good Practice for Video-
recorded Interviews with Child Witnesses for Criminal Proceedings (Home Office...
... Coleman, M Gill and D Wall, ‘Reality and Rules in
the Construction and Regulation of Police Suspicion’ (1989) 17 International Journal of the
Sociology of Law 185 and B Bowling and C Phillips, ... procedure, criminal law and
sentencing in England and Wales.
A. Criminal Procedure
First, recent legislation ‘for the prevention of terrorism’ extends the power
of the police t...
... ). From our standpoint, Artistotle offered us
just a job?
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certain tools for understanding ethics and rhetoric (or communica-
tion) writ large, and we can take those tools and build a perspective ... better able to see the larger landscape of ethics in both
starting conversations
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our personal and our professional lives, and especially to consider
how ethics and ethi...
... evidence against the defendant, personal history and char-
acteristics of the defendant (including mental condition and litigation his-
tory), and the nature and seriousness of the danger presented by ... adoption and
communication of professional standards for diversion consultations, and
(2) pragmatism in the matching of the defendant’s needs with available
resources.
Profession...
...
ground.
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We disagree, and in this book we describe and defend this middle ground.
Constitutional decisions can be judicial and principled (and thus fi rmly rooted in
the rule of law rather than in ... state and federal statutes, presidential
and agency actions, and all manner of state and local governmental conduct. It
is judicial review that gives our Constitution its pr...
... PROBLEM
Fig. 1 The approach to an ethical dilemma (Adapted from p. 8, Medical Ethics Today the BMA’s
handbook of ethics and law. 2nd ed. BMJ Books. London, 2004)
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component, we are ... nition of ethics and an understanding of the characteristics of
ethics, we are in a far better position to consider individual situations and make ethi-
cal determinations. We know...
...
supported my interest in and writing on Gregory and other topics in the
history of medical ethics, as did Baruch Brody when I came to the Center
for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the ... of medical ethics and therefore the history of bioethics. To
these, I will show in this book, Gregory added the accomplishment of
writing the first feminine medical ethics in...