Abstract The Belmont Report continues to be held in high regard, and most bioethical
analyses conducted in recent years have presumed that it affects United States federal …

The emergence of ethical concerns surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has led to an
explosion of high-level ethical principles being published by a wide range of public and …

Given that biases can distort bioethics work, it has received surprisingly little and fragmented
attention compared to in other fields of research. This article provides an overview of …

Jonathan Dancy presents a long-awaited exposition and defence of particularism in ethics, a
view with which he has been associated for twenty years. He argues that the traditional link …

Recent scandals and controversies, such as data fabrication in federally funded science,
data manipulation and distortion in private industry, and human embryonic stem cell …

Research with human subjects 1 exemplifies the perennial conflict between the good of the
individual and the good of society. Policies and procedures that protect the rights and …

The four principles approach to medical ethics plus specification is used in this paper.
Specification is defined as a process of reducing the indeterminateness of general norms to …

My objective is to explain the so-called four principles approach and to explain the
philosophical and practical roles these principles play. I start with a brief history and then …

In some quarters today there are arguments to the effect that research ethics codes should
be formulated in terms of principles, rather than specific prescriptions and proscriptions. This …

Natural law is a perennial though poorly represented and understood issue in political
philosophy and the philosophy of law. In this 2006 book, Mark C. Murphy argues that the …