There was a time when some of the most high-profile bioethical issues involved physicians trying to save lives and provide treatments that patients or their families didn’t want.
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In our article, “The Ethics in Long-Term Care Model: Everyday Ethics and the Unseen Moral Landscape of Assisted Living,” my colleagues and I pull back the metaphorical covers on value conflicts and uncertainties in assisted living, a popular place for older people who no longer can live independently. We argue that because assisted living communities are simultaneously places where people live, work, and visit, and where daily life, relationships, and care are negotiated in private and public spaces, ethical challenges commonly arise.
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Individuals who support refugee and other newcomer populations through providing resettlement services, social services, and medical care can benefit from collaboration with each other.
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When publishing academic papers, it is very important that the research, peer review, and publication are carried out in an ethical manner. SAGE is committed to ethical peer review and is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). This introduction to publishing ethics will explain how you can help a journal’s editorial team to ensure that peer review is ethical and independent.
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In 1996 Dr. Erica Frank wrote a series of editor-reviewer “ideal” communications. Revisiting these suggestions, Michael Blades editor of the journal Applied Spectroscopy, explores if over two decades later the notion of the “still-imperfect art” of peer review remains the same today, presenting the guide as a roadmap for the 21st century reviewer.
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As we commemorate the "Ethics Awareness Month," I thought it best to reflect on COVID-19 and highlight some of the ethical challenges that might need attention. With its origins in China, the virus has spread to 170 countries and territories, leaving more than 8,000 dead. It has been declared a public health emergency of international concern and there are no signs of a cure at the moment.
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If we were to do a text mining exercise on all the incredible discussions at last week’s conference 100+ Brilliant Women in AI & Ethics, education would beat all other topics by a mile. We talked about educating kids, we had teenagers share their thoughts on AI in poems and essays, and exchanged views on the nuances of teaching ethics in computing and working with large volumes of social data both for computer scientists and experts from other disciplines.
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At CogX, the Festival of AI and Emergent Technology, two icons appeared over and over across the King’s Cross location. The first was the logo for the festival itself, an icon of a brain with lobes made up of wires. The second was for the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a partner of the festival.
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