These four components could well be applied to the ethical issues surrounding SARS, with specific emphasis on the first two.
YG designed the study in collaboration with NL and TH, applied to the Ethical Board in collaboration with NL, prepared the Case Report Forms, conducted clinical assessments, collected data, planned and executed the analyses, interpreted the results in collaboration with TH and NL, and prepared all drafts of the manuscript in collaboration with TH.
However, other Delphi methods may be applied to resolve fundamental ethical conflicts, where the goal would not be to reach an immediate agreement, which a priori is impossible, but to establish the limits of disagreement, so as to facilitate the reasoning on the ethical problem involved.
New technologies mean new interpretative challenges and when applied to humans these have ethical implications.
Currently, the self-regulatory approaches applied to the political and ethical issues raised here, as we shall see, are characteristic of the biobanking world in general [ 9].
Here we present a summary of an ethical analysis applied to human volunteer studies involving experimental exposure to pesticides, although a more detailed ethical analysis of the issues related to use of data from human volunteer studies is contained in Additional File 2, with detailed mapping of the issues for each stakeholder identified.
This applies to any ethical theory with a strong basis in impartiality or with a claim to universal validity.
Aristotle holds that this same topography applies to every ethical virtue: all are located on a map that places the virtues between states of excess and deficiency.
And the ethical criteria applied to Islamic financial products could easily be shared by many non-Muslim savers.
State laws could be applied to public officials' breaches of ethical conduct, including the broad anticorruption statute included in the Public Officers Law, which prohibits state officials from improperly soliciting or receiving financial benefits as a result of their official positions.
