try to resist all these forms of pressure‚ as far as possible. Of course‚ you will sometimes fail. This is an imperfect world‚ and journalists are also imperfect. Nevertheless‚ you should always try to resist the kinds of pressure. Some of the issues facing journalists are;- 2.1 Fair play A newspaper should not publish an unofficial charge affecting reputation or moral character without opportunity given to the accused to be heard; right practice demands the giving of such opportunity
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Ethical Issues in Sales: Two Case Studies Thomas L. Carson Ethical issues in sales are an important and neglected topic in business ethics. Roughly 9% of the U.S. work force is involved in sales of one sort or another. But very little has been written about ethical issues in sales. Case 1: Shoe sales [The following case is taken from a paper that I received from a student. I am using this case with the student’s permission. The student did not want me to use his/her name. I have made some minor
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the Eugenics program had many issues‚ both technical and ethical. The basis of the Eugenics program - that an individual’s life can be seen as “a burden” and not worth society’s resources - brings up multiple moral arguments. Who is the judge of whether a life is more valuable than another? Does this not give government workers and referrers the jurisdiction to play God? Inherently‚ this program had a multitude of factors that were not taken into account. One issue is the measurements used to quantify
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Ethical issues of Philedelphia The central ethical dilemma of the 1993 Jonathan Demme film Philadelphia is whether or not a man who is fully competent at performing his job can be fired simply because he possesses a disorder or exhibits a lifestyle against which the company’s owner possesses a prejudice. According to statutes like the Americans with Disabilities Act‚ it is illegal for an employer to fire a man because of a terminal illness such as cancer or AIDS‚ provided that the illness does
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Principles‚ Methods and Ethical principles of communication The purpose of this paper is to discuss the 7 principles of patient- nurse communication and how it applies to me and my interaction with patients‚ The 3 Methods of interdisciplinary communication and the SBAR communication applies to my own practice and the ethical principles that are applied to patient- clinician (Paget‚ Han‚ Nedza‚ Kurtz‚ Racine‚ Russell‚ Santa‚ Schumann‚ Simha & Von Kohorn‚ I. (2012) states that the seven principles
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Introduction: This essay will look at an ethical dilemma encountered in clinical practice while working as a clinical research nurse as part of a lung cancer research team. This essay will give a background to the subject area‚ look at the potential impact of this dilemma on clinical research and identify evidence based potential solutions to the dilemma. Methods of implementing the potential solutions into practice will then be outlined. The NMC (2008‚ p. 6) Code of Conduct states that as a nurse
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On April 5‚ on her way home to Otto‚ NC from visiting a friend in Augusta‚ Denise was in a car accident‚ suffering multiple fractures‚ broken bones‚ and a pneumothorax. Three days later‚ while still in hospital‚ she had a stroke. After 18 days in the ICU at AUMC‚ she was discharged and transferred to Select Specialty Hospital in Augusta. Background: My problem began in the ICU with Denise’s estranged grown children‚ Zoe Carlin‚ age 48‚ and Eric Carlin‚ age 46. Denise and I have been happily living
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Limited (UCIL) ’s plant released 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas which instantly killed over 3‚000 people and carrying on causing the death of more than 20‚000. This tragic event involved not only the technical‚ safety issues at the time‚ but also ethical issues on the responsibility of those who would have been able to prevent the tragedy from happening and those who denied or intentionally decreased the responsibility of causing it. 2. Background of the involved organization: It was
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this topic in the college are less reluctant to this controversial topic. As a counselor‚ if we have to deal with the incest victims‚ what should we pay attention to? What should we consider if the victims become pregnant? We need to identify the ethical problem faced by the therapist working with family in which child sexual abuse is suspected or has occurred. The primary focus is paternal incestuous abuse‚ with the recognition that siblings‚ extended family‚ and stepparents may also be perpetrators
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The article mainly focused on the issue concerning the ability of pre-born children to experience pain while undergoing invasive procedures‚ such as abortion. The most apparent ethical and moral dilemma related to the issue is whether pre-born children during their early stage of neuroanatomical development are capable of perceiving pain‚ if so‚ then do they suffer from pain while dying in abortion? In contrast to the idea of "phylogenetic recapitulation‚"we consider the fact that a developing embryo
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