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Professions in Global Perspectives
Professions and Privacy
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Professional Relationships
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Commanding Heights
The purpose of this site is to promote better understanding of globalization, world trade and economic development, including the forces, values, events, and ideas that have shaped the present global economic system.
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors without Broders delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and to others who lack health care due to social or geographical isolation. It unites direct medical care with a commitment to bearing witness and speaking out against the underlying causes of suffering.
Global Health: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The foundation's Global Health Program is focused on reducing global health inequities by accelerating the development, deployment and sustainability of health interventions that will save lives and dramatically reduce the disease burden in developing countries.
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. Through their policy research and communications programs, they work to provide reliable information in a health system in which the issues are increasingly complex and the nation faces difficult challenges and choices.
Human Rights Resources
This page contains freely available resources and BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) publications related to the Human Rights issue area.
Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
An audio file (mp3) of Yunus' remarks during his visit to Vanderbilt's campus on January 28, 2005.
UNAIDS
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, is the main advocate for global action on the epidemic. It leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviating the impact of the epidemic.
American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU is our nation’s guardian of liberty. They work daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Their job is to conserve America’s original civic values - the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Center for Digital Democracy
The Center for Digital Democracy is committed to preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realizing the full potential of digital communications through the development and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming.
Council for Ethics in Economics
The Council for Ethics in Economics is a worldwide association of leaders in business, education, and other professions working together to strengthen the ethical fabric of business and economic life. The Council identifies and responds to issues important for ethical economic practices and assists in the resolution of these issues.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect fundamental rights regardless of technology; to educate the press, policymakers and the general public about civil liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties.
Guidelines for Academic Medical Centers on Security and Privacy
This website provides practical strategies for addressing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).
Health Privacy Care
The Health Privacy Project is dedicated to raising public awareness of the importance of ensuring health privacy in order to improve health care access and quality, both on an individual and a community level.
HIPPA Office for Civil Rights
This website provides fact sheets, background information, HIPPA regulations, educational materials and more.
HIPAA Privacy Rule and Public Health
Guidance from CDC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Who Goes There? Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy
This report, available through this link in HTML format, explores authentication technologies (including passwords, PKI, biometrics, etc.) and their implications for the privacy of the individuals being authenticated. The report examines numerous concepts, including authentication, authorization, identification, privacy, and security. The report explains how privacy is affected by system design decisions. It presents steps one can take to mitigate adverse privacy effects of authentication systems. The report also describes government's unique role in authentication and what this means for how government can use authentication with minimal invasions of privacy.
These books are available in the Cal Turner Program Office, Room 140, Divinity School and may be checked out from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. each day.
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Anchor Books, 1994.
Ayittety, George. Africa Betrayed, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992
Brint, Steven. In an Age of Experts: The Changing Role of Professionals in Politics and Public Life. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Buchanan, Allen; Brock, Dan W.; Daniels, Norman; Wikler, Daniel. From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Burford, Bob. Half Time: Changing Your Game Plan from Success to Significance. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1994.
Burns, James MacGregor. Leadership. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1978.
Cleveland, Cliff, M.D. Sacred Space: Stories from a Life in Medicine. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: American College of Physicians, 1998.
Collins, James C. and Porras, Jerry I. Built to Last: Sucessful Habits of Visionary Companies. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1994.
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Fletcher, Joseph. Memoir of an Ex-Radical: Reminiscence and Reappraisal. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993.
Frank, Arthur W. At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991.
Frank, Arthur W. The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness and Ethics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Freidson, Eliot. Professionalism: The Third Logic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Friedman, Thomas L. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999.
Fukuyama, Francis. Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity. New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1996.
Garson, Barbara, Money Makes the World Go Around, New York: Penguin Books, 2001
Garten, Jeffrey E. The Mind of the CEO. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
Giddens, Anthony. Runaway World. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Gorlin, Rena A., ed. Codes of Professional Responsibility. Washington D.C.: The Bureau of National Affairs, 1994.
Gray, John. False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism. New York: The New Press, 1998.
Greider, William. One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism. New York: Touchstone, 1997.
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Hardin, Russell. Trust and Trustworthiness. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002.
Heifetz, Ronald A. Leadership without Easy Answers. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994.
Lessig, Lawrence. Code: and other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
Lewontin, Richard. The Triple Helix. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Mandela, Nelson, et.al., The aWAKE Project, Nashville, Tennessee: Nelson. 2002.
Marcic, Dorothy. Managing with the Wisdom of Love: Uncovering Virtue in People and Organizations. San Francisco: Josey-Bass Publishers, 1997.
May, William F. Beleaguered Rulers: The Public Obligation of the Professional. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.
Morgan, Richard L. From Grim to Green Pastures: Meditations for the Sick and their Caregivers. Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1994.
Nash, Laura L. Good Intentions Aside: A Manager's Guide to Resolving Ethical Problems. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1990, 1993.
Ngugi, Thiong. Weep Not, Child, Oxford: Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1987.
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Peterson, James C. Genetic Turning Points: The Ethics of Human Genetic Intervention. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001.
Post, Stephen G. Spheres of Love: Toward a New Ethics of the Family. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1994.
Secretan, Lance H.K. Reclaiming Higher Ground: Creating Organizations that Inspire the Soul. New York: McGraw Hill, 1997.
Seligman, Adam B. The Problem of Trust. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Shapiro, Andrew L. The Control Revolution: How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know. New York: Public Affairs, 1999.
Skyrms, Brian. Evoloution of the Social Contract. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Smith, David H. Entrusted: The Moral Responsibilities of Trusteeship. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Stackhouse, Max L.; McCann, Dennis P., and Roels, Shirles J., with Williams, Preston N. On Moral Business: Classical and Contemporary Resources for Ethics and Economic Life. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995.
Trevino, Linda K. and Nelson, Katherine A. Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk About How to Do It Right. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1995.
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Vaux, Kenneth, ed. To Create a Different Future: Religious Hope and Technological Planning. New York: Friendship Press, 1972.
Yergin, Daniel and Stanislaw, Joseph, The Commanding Heights--The Battle for the World Economy, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Yunus, Muhammad. Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. New York: PublicAffairs, 1999.
Zelman, Walter A.. The Changing Healthcare Marketplace: Private Ventures, Public Interests. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996.
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Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology
The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP) was established in 1976 to promote research and teaching on practical moral problems in the professions. The first interdisciplinary center for ethics to focus on the professions, CSEP continues to be one of the nation's leading centers for practical and professional ethics.
Codes of Ethics Online
A collection of over 850 codes of ethics of professional societies, corporations, government, and academic institutions.
Consortium Ethics Program, Univ. of Pittsburgh Center for Medical Ethics
The Consortium Ethics Program is a nationally acclaimed ethics education network that trains staff members from participating health care institutions in the language, methods, and literature of health care ethics.
Council for Ethics in Economics
The Council for Ethics in Economics is a worldwide association of leaders in business, education, and other professions working together to strengthen the ethical fabric of business and economic life. The Council identifies and responds to issues important for ethical economic practices and assists in the resolution of these issues.
DePaul University Institute for Business and Professional Ethics
The mission of the Institute is to encourage ethical deliberation in decision-makers by stirring the moral conscience and imagination. By providing a forum for exploring and furthering ethical practices in organizations, the IBPE provides ethics-related programs and resources to stakeholders at DePaul Univeristy and in the larger Chicago community.
Emory University Center for Ethics
The Center for Ethics exists to enrich moral imagination, to deepen knowledge of ethics, and to encourage lives of moral meaning and ethical practice. Specifically, the Center leads collaborative programs in the ethics of health science and care, scientific research, and leadership development, offers public discussions, fosters new programs to meet its mission, and develops faculty capacity for teaching and research in ethics throughout the university.
INSEAD
Institute for Applied & Professional Ethics at Ohio University
The Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics at Ohio University is dedicated to promoting the application of fundamental ethical techniques to decision-making in an ever-changing world.
Institute for Global Ethics
The mission of the institute is o promote ethical behavior in individuals, institutions, and nations through research, public discourse, and practical action. Of special interest on the site is the opporrtunity to receive Ethics Newsline, a major online source for news and information on ethics and current events published weekly by the Institute, free of charge.
Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life at the University of Virginia
The Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life seeks to facilitate interdisciplinary exploration -- in education, scholarship, and service -- of ethical dimensions of individual and social choices in professional roles and activities and public policy.
Institute for Study of Applied and Professional Ethics at Dartmouth College
The Ethics Institute exists to foster the study of applied and professional ethics throughout the Dartmouth community, striving to facilitate scholarship and teaching in applied and professional ethics.
International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics (ISBEE)
The International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics (ISBEE) is the first world-wide professional association to focus exclusively on the study of business, economics, and ethics. ISBEE developed in response to a felt need to bring together individuals in traditionally distinctive fields - economics, business, law, and philosophy - and different practical areas - human resources, marketing, finance, social and environmental concerns.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University
The center's focus areas are business, health care and biotechnology, character education, government, global leadership, technology, and emerging issues in ethics. Articles, cases, briefings, and dialogue in all fields of applied ethics are available on this site.
Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University
The Poynter Center promotes moral deliberation about developments in science and technology, the provision of health care, the aims of higher education, the duties of corporate responsibility, and the challenges of democratic life and culture. Critical reflection about the meaning of rights, community, justice, diversity, power, and virtue provide the more general terms for much of the Center's inquiry.
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University
The Center encourages teaching and research about ethical issues in public and professional life; helps meet the growing need for teachers and scholars who address questions of moral choice in business, education, government, law, medicine, and public policy; brings together those with competence in philosophical thought and those with experience in professional education; and promotes a perspective on ethics informed by both theory and practice.
The International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life at Brandeis University
The mission of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life is to develop effective responses to conflict and injustice by offering innovative approaches to coexistence, strengthening the work of international courts, and encouraging ethical practice in civic and professional life.
The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
The Kenan Institute for Ethics is a university-wide initiative at Duke University that supports the study and teaching of ethics and promotes moral reflection and commitment in personal, professional, community, and civic life. One of the main strengths of this website is the "links" section, which provides a rich resource for anyone interested in ethics research.
The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science at Case Western Reserve University
The Center's mission is to provide engineers, scientists, and science and engineering students with resources for understanding and addressing ethically significant problems that arise in their work, and to serve those who are promoting learning and advancing the understanding of responsible research and practice in science and engineering.
The Society for Business Ethics
The Society for Business Ethics (SBE) is an international organization of scholars engaged in the academic study of business ethics and others with interest in the field. Membership in SBE is open to scholars from all disciplines, to professionals who specialize in business ethics, and to anyone else who seeks the benefits of membership.
The University of British Columbia, Centre for Applied Ethics
The mission of the Centre is to bring moral philosophy into the public domain by advancing research in applied ethics, supporting courses with a significant ethical component and acting as a community resource. The Centre provides opportunities for academics, practitioners, and others to engage in the systematic and rational reflection on significant moral issues of the day.
The University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics
The Center for Bioethics is a leader in bioethics research and its deployment in the ethical, efficient, and compassionate practice of the life sciences and medicine.
Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research
The mission of the Center is to sponsor and disseminate leading edge research on critical topics in business ethics. Its broad research focus includes global business ethics, corporate governance, social contracts, deception, disclosure, bribery and corruption. The Center is intended to serve as a focal point for the interaction of business, professional, and academic leaders concerning responsibility in business.
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Business Ethics Quarterly
Business Ethics Quarterly (BEQ) publishes scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of ethics in business, especially those that raise conceptual, methodological, practical, or theoretical issues
The Journal of Privacy Technology
The Journal is a forum for publication of current research in privacy technology. It will consider any material dealing primarily with the technological aspects of privacy or with the privacy aspects of technology, which may include analysis of the interaction between policy and technology or the technological implications of legal decisions.
Virtual Mentor: Ethics Journal of the American Medical Association
This Journal focuses on strengthening the ethics of professionalism of tomorrow's physicians. Current as well as past issues are available online.
Academy of Management: Professional Development
This website provides the Academy of Management's Code of Ethical Conduct.
American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility
The Center provides national leadership and vision in developing and interpreting standards and scholarly resources in legal ethics, professional regulation, professionalism and client protection mechanisms. It promotes discussion and resolution of pressing issues of professional responsibility and fosters communication among diverse bar organizations and the various agencies that supervise and regulate the conduct of lawyers and judges.
American Bar Association: Model Rules of Professional Conduct
American Medical Association’s Code of Medical Ethics
American Medical Association Ethics Resource Center
The Ethics Resource Center provides students and physicians with the essential tools and skills to address ethical challenges in a changing health care environment.
American Nurses’ Association’s Code of Ethics
Business for Social Responsibility
BSR helps companies of all sizes and sectors to achieve success in ways that demonstrate respect for ethical values, people, communities and the environment, and equips its member companies with the expertise to design and implement successful, socially responsible business policies, practices and processes.
Code of Ethics Online
"One-stop shop" for ethical codes across the professions.
Council for Ethics in Economics
The Council for Ethics in Economics is a worldwide association of leaders in business, education, and other professions working together to strengthen the ethical fabric of business and economic life. The Council identifies and responds to issues important for ethical economic practices and assists in the resolution of these issues.
Council for Ethics in Economics
The Council for Ethics in Economics is a worldwide association of leaders in business, education, and other professions working together to strengthen the ethical fabric of business and economic life. The Council identifies and responds to issues important for ethical economic practices and assists in the resolution of these issues.
Counterbalance
The Counterbalance Interactive Library offers new views on complex issues from science, ethics, philosophy, and religion. The website provides extensive resources on the evolution/creation controversy, biomedical ethical challenges, and much more.
Genomics and its Impact on Science and Society
Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project's goals goals were to identify all the approximately 30,000 genes in human DNA, determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA, store this information in databases, improve tools for data analysis, transfer related technologies to the private sector, and address the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) that may arise from the project.
National Human Genome Research Institute
The NHGRI supports the development of resources and technology that will accelerate genome research and its application to human health. A critical part of the NHGRI mission continues to be the study of the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of genome research. NHGRI also supports the training of investigators and the dissemination of genome information to the public and to health professionals.
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is a continuously updated catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. OMIM focuses primarily on inherited, or heritable, genetic diseases. It is also considered to be a phenotypic companion to the human genome project.
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