Bad money: causes, effects, and economic implications
In Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism, Kevin Phillips analyzes the current U.S. economic crisis and outlines the factors most responsible for its evolution over…
Ethics: concepts, principles, and contemporary applications
According to the principles of ethical relativism, moral decisions are made on the basis of what an individual believes, or what the culture from which the individual comes stands for.
Economic Crisis Was Born, Ultimately,
¶ … economic crisis was born, ultimately, of a failure in risk management. The multitude of bank failures -- nearly 100 in 2009 alone -- is largely the result of banks carrying too many so-called "toxic assets." Some of…
Ethics and Legal Considerations of Genetic Testing
The Ethics and Legal Considerations of Genetic Testing
Genetic testing is ideally performed for many valid clinical purposes. The sheer breadth and depth of genetic testing makes a sweeping ethical/moral judgment about genetic testing impossible; rather, the healthcare professional will have to apply his/her ethical education and experience on a case-by-case basis.
Singapore currently has no law governing genetic testing per se. In 2000, the Singapore Cabinet appointed "The Bioethics Advisory Committee" to review genetic testing practices and make recommendations. The Committee prepared an exhaustive report with 24 ethical/moral recommendations.
Aside from the herculean efforts of Singapore's Bioethics Advisory Committee, several philosophical/ethical theories can be applied to genetic testing. Kant's Mills' and Gilligan's theories all seem too subjective to adequately judge Genetic Testing. However, Ross' 4 Prima Faci principles are commonly used in conjunction with the Code of Professional Conduct to adjudge ethical considerations of Genetic Testing on a case-by-case basis.
Women and Health Agenda Over the Last
This paper discusses some of the health challenges encountered by women across their lives and provides a general idea of some of the fundamental determinants of wom¬en's health. It is apparent that women around the world encounter health challenges at every stage of their life, that is, at birth, adolescent throughout to old age regardless of their locality. Even as the world develops, women's health is deteriorating at every state of their life. This is a critical review of Women and health Agenda over the Last twenty years up to date.
Reality Globalization Interdisciplinary Perspective. Concretely, Means Analyzing
Globalization has become such an important world in defining the way in which economies and countries develop that an actual definition of the term itself is no longer sought. It represents nowadays a terminology that entangles the entire array of economic, political, social, and cultural elements of life at the global level. However, the critics of the globalization process tend to view these developments as worsening the condition of the human being through the high level of dependency on economic revenues, on the strong inter connectivity between countries, societies, and individuals that eventually leads to diluting the actual nature of the individual as a particular human being, with rights and obligations, with a life following the social contract norms of the 18th century. Perhaps one of the most spread discussion on the actual effects of globalization revolves around the negative impact this phenomenon has on the poor people who, as a result of the indirect effects of the activities that define globalization, become even poorer and the gap between the rich and the poor is constantly expanding.