This information, stored on a computer and used to correlate with other data could be considered invaluable by many researchers, but the patients have a right to keep certain information private, and to suggest anything else would be an ethical violation of the patient's privacy. Because computer ethics is such a volatile issue, an entire branch of study has grown up around computer ethics, which proponents who believe the computer

Accepting Client Assignments Outstanding client service begins with a full understanding of the client organization, its business needs and the position to be filled. An AESC member should: Accept only those assignments that a member is qualified to undertake on the basis of the member's knowledge of the client's needs and the member's ability to perform the specific assignment. Disclose promptly conflicts of interest known to the AESC member and accept assignments only

Life and Death: The Life Support Dilemma by Kenneth E. Schemmer M.D Kenneth Schemmer in his thorough, thought provoking book brings to life the controversial subject of the life support issue. For years, many all over the country have pondered, "What if a person were in some kind of an accident and the physicians told them that they were not going to make it?" And all that he or she

If the leaders of our national financial institutions had asked 'are these moral actions right, ethically speaking, from the point-of-view of my profession' rather than 'will these moral actions make money,' the world financial crisis would never have occurred. Utilitarianism also tends to deemphasize minority rights -- but merely because a group is in the minority does not mean that it is engaged in a moral wrong. This can be

IT Ethics -- Annotated Bibliography Bowie, Norman E. (2005). Digital Rights and Wrongs: Intellectual Property in the Information Age. Business and Society Review, 110(1), 77-96. Norman Bowie takes great pains in his peer-reviewed article to point out what is legal an what is not legal when it comes to recording / taping from television and from the Internet. In fact Bowie uses an illegal issue (downloading music from the Internet) to present a moral

Part 2: Evaluating Emails Jump ahead in the textbook and read pp. 365-71, on email etiquette, and check out this website, which lists 101 email etiquette tips: http://101emailetiquettetips.com/ Then, read over a wide selection of emails that you received and sent over the past week or so, in both personal and professional contexts, and assess how well those emails follow the etiquette outlined both in the textbook and on the website. Write