Nevertheless, we acknowledge that our view of normative analysis as a core feature of research in medical ethics needs further specification to determine which quality criteria should be applied for empirical studies in medical ethics.
[ 1] p. 71 In the context of evidence-based ethics it is not the specification of EB for medicine that interests us so much but the characterization of what evidence or EB means in general.
The authors wish to acknowledge Neil Donnelly, Holly Parsons and Anne Grunseit, for their contributions to project design, application for ethics approval, indicator development, and data specifications.
Content and construct validation were done using a table of specifications filled out by experts including two ethics philosophy professors, and two pediatricians.
But notice that a specification of possible metaphysical unities alone will not be sufficient, for what we need in addition is a specification of which such unities are significant for ethics.
Implicit variables were named in accordance with the specifications of these observed variables in the model and consisted of usefulness, popularity, ethics, barriers, and personal innovativeness.
Specification and balancing were meant to address the particular situation, yet steering away from situational ethics.
The study has been approved (Agost 10, 2010) by the research ethics committee from University Hospital of Salamanca, Spain and complies with Spanish data protection law 15/1999 and its recently developed specifications (Royal Decree RDD) 1720/2007).
Part of the contemporary revival of virtue ethics is premised partly on a reaction against the ambition of modern ethical theory to guide primarily through general principles of action rather than through the specification of ideal character traits.
Furthermore, we found that specification of the benchmarks allowed a significant amount of versatility and adaptability for various methodologies of ethics review.
