Ethical commitment

By law and by ethical commitment, companies that manufacture pharmaceutical products must make sure that what they produce is safe and effective. Ensuring that pharmaceutical manufacturing personnel possess the competencies necessary to perform their jobs correctly and efficiently is critical to a safe and successful... 

What we are facing today is the fact that through our scientific and technological genius we ve made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We... 

GA-8 Ethics Commit to professional ethics, responsibilities, and norms of the engineering practice... 

Making citizens involved in the process of construction of knowledge with educational campaigns that aim to develop an analytical and critical attitude, rather than transfer absolute certainties on scientific theories. The population should be informed also about the Umits of the scientific methods used, so that it can better understand and share the decisions taken to deal with a natural hazard. Informing the population on natural risks should be prioritized for geoscientists, which is their ethical commitment. 

Safety climate is underwritten by the organizational dimensions. In particular, there is a strong relationship between perceived organizational support and safety climate. Team members who believe the organization cares about them also accept that leadership is committed to safety. Commitment to safety is one specific way in which organizational support can be demonstrated, and such commitment is a means by which a leader can make his or her ethical commitment to safety visible and tangible. This display of commitment represents an important opportunity for a leader who wants to build a strong safety climate. 

Section 1, Part A, of the COM states, in part, that "It is the policy of Reactor Operations, that the primary consideration in the operation of the Company s facilities is the safety of the general public, station personnel, and equipment. All operations personnel, when faced with any abnormal plant condition, transient, or event, are-to take the safe course of action. Completion of scheduled activities is secondary." The reactor operator s Code of Ethics commits "To acknowledge that safety outweighs all other considerations including production, economics, and the expediency of reactor operations." The operators interviewed by the evaluation team are serious about their Code of Ethics and about protecting the public. Based on the above, we find that the criterion for WSRC to actively support the quality in operating personnel to operate the plant in a manner which demonstrates that all decisions place public and reactor safety considerations first is acceptably satisfied. 

This positivist attitude is well-established in the biomedical world, and, to be sure, it was hard-won and hardly to be disparaged. However, at the same time, the price for objectifying disease has diluted, if not too often replaced medicine s ancient calling of care. I mean by care, attention to each facet of the individual, namely, treating the patient as a person, as a whole. A medicine that fails to address those elements of personhood that have no scientific basis - the social, the emotional, the moral - is ultimately fractional and therefore incomplete. Only by the physician committing to comprehensive care can the multifarious elements of being ill be addressed effectively. There is no one else to assume that responsibility, and we must invoke the ethics of responsibility to re-define the entire enterprise.5... 

While serious ethical objections have been raised regarding the use of placebos in trials of drugs used in the treatment of psychiatric disorders (largely based on the possibility that the patients may commit suicide if they are inadequately treated, although such patients are usually excluded from placebo controlled trials), all regulatory authorities insist on properly conducted, placebo controlled trials as a basis for registering a new drug. 

HUGO Ethics Committee. 1995. HUGO Ethics Committee Wishes to Reaffirm its Commitment to its Position Given Previously in its Statement on the Principled Conduct of Genetic Research. Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 6 59-60. 

At the societal level, they imply an anemic view of justice, as London pointed out. They rebuff any commitment to a substantive theory of justice. They only require procedures such as the approval by the community and/or the local research ethics committee. What is more, they do not commit themselves to basic conditions for such procedures to be acceptable. They naturalize the extreme and desperate situation of such communities as the baseline. Furthermore, they do not recognize the influence this baseline condition may have in the bargaining process. They force people to expose themselves in order to achieve or protect such basic goods as health or life. This fact seems to put the research subject in an unfair position or, as Ballantyne (2004) has argued, in a situation of exploitation a mutually advantageous exploitation. This means that research (or any transaction) can be simultaneously mutually beneficial and yet also unfair. 

Third, expecting one set of ethical behaviors while rewarding others inconsistent with ethical values will cause confusion and lack of commitment to ethical behaviors in an organization. 

It is important to understand that the educative development of ethical reasoning skills neither represents nor advocates a prescribed moral position, and does not commit a student in advance to dogmatic solutions to all moral problems. Ethics, or ethical reasoning, is the process by which the most defensible resolution to a moral dilemma is sought. 

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