In this paper we discuss the need for ethics in pandemic influenza planning and discuss the ethical framework we developed to guide pandemic planning in hospitals.
The ethical framework was developed with expertise from clinical, organisational and public health ethics and validated through a stakeholder engagement process.
This challenges the ethical framework on which our profession is founded and runs against the grain of our NHS and our personal and professional values", he adds.
We need not fear that their use by the UK Armed Forces represents a shift in the ethical framework of modern warfare".
For the next three years, Rajnikanth continued to play characters considered morally dubious within the ethical framework of conventional Tamil cinema.
At the opening ceremony he had paid tribute to Britain's role in inventing and codifying so many modern sports, and in providing the ethical framework that inspired Pierre de Coubertin to revive the Games.
Such an approach, the rapporteurs write, "undermines the reputation of the United Nations, calls into question the ethical framework within which its peace-keeping forces operate, and challenges the credibility of the organization as an entity that respects human rights".
If the authorities violate this bottom line and I go along, that would amount to the bankruptcy of the ethical framework that I have stood by for many years".
In a letter addressed to Ban, five special rapporteurs said the UN's handling of the cholera epidemic "undermines the reputation of the United Nations, calls into question the ethical framework within which its peace-keeping forces operate, and challenges the credibility of the organization as an entity that respects human rights".
Because if Keogh's right, if this "challenges the ethical framework", if we're acting in spite of conscience and not because of it, then almost every junior doctor in the land is flouting the rules set out by the GMC, and performing deficiently.
Michael Burleigh's highly acclaimed Moral Combat: A History of World War II explored morality and its absence during the last global conflict, from the ethical framework of Nazis who perpetrated heinous crimes to Churchill's quandary over the Royal Air Force's attacks on German cities.
