Hello All,
Just wanted to check in with everyone. How are your assignments going?
I have been looking into when we can do a teleconference during the day and it is very
difficult to schedule between Seattle, Bergen, Bangkok and Melbourne. In actuality, I
think it will be best to wait until the daylight savings switch to have the meeting.
I suggest we have the meeting Tuesday April 1st at 05:00 UTC.
That will be:
22:00 Monday March 31 in Seattle
07:00 Tuesday April 1 in Bergen
12:00 Tuesday April 1 in Bangkok
16:00 Tuesday April in Melbourne
If we do it before the daylight savings switch, it will be too late here or too early in
Bergen.
Does that sound good?
Since we would be extending the meeting, I think we could also extend the deadline for
our reports to 28 March.
What do you think?
Hope
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Ethics workgroup distribution of responsibilities
Hello,
I think we need to have a meeting. ISECN has successfully used SKYPE to
hold teleconferences with colleagues around the globe. I think we
should plan to have such a meeting in one month's time-- would
mid-March work for everyone?
Before we can have an intelligent discussion, I think we need to
immerse ourselves in the field of ethics a bit. I have taken the
liberty to divide up some of the reading Torill and Maurice have
gathered. I think we should all read our assigned papers/areas and then
write brief reports on them that we can, for now, publish on the blog
and then eventually publish on VHPO (when our stream gets up and
running). We can then give a brief presentation on our topics during
our teleconference.
I offer this distribution of responsibilities:
1. Gabrielle: You stated an interest in looking at ethics generally
from a philosophical point of view, what ethics means, why ethics are
important, different approaches to ethics etc, in order to provide a
solid foundation for our work. If you could write a report on these
topics-- it would help us immensely!
2. Nithat: I think it would be interesting to get a view of ethics from
a completely removed field. A website Torill found on ethics cited the
following articles from the field of Engineering. Would you mind
getting a hold of these and reporting on them to us?
Here are the citations:
Davis, Michael. "Thinking like an Engineer: The Place of a Code of
Ethics in the Practice of a Profession". Philosophy and Public Affairs
20.2 (1991): 150-167.
Harris, Charles E., Jr., Michael S. Pritchard and Michael J. Rabins.
Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth
Publishing, 1995.
Ladd, John. "The Quest for a Code of Professional Ethics: An
Intellectual and Moral Confusion". Ethical Issues in Engineering. Ed.
Deborah G. Johnson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1991. 130-136.
Luegenbiehl, Heinz C. "Codes of Ethics and the Moral Education of
Engineers", Business and Professional Ethics Journal 2 (1983): 41-61.
Rpt. in Ethical Issues in Engineering . Ed. Deborah G. Johnson.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1991. 137-154.
3. Elisha: This website that Torill found,
http://ethics.iit.edu/codes/Introduction.html, has gathered codes of
ethics from all kinds of fields over a number of years. Can you take a
careful look at this website and give us a report?
4. Hope: I was thinking I could follow up on these articles that
Maurice cited in his paper.
Buchanan, D. R. (2000) An Ethic for Health Promotion.
Rethinking the Sources of Human Well-being. Oxford
University Press, New York, pp. 81
Callahan, D. and Jennings, B. (2002) Ethics and public
health: forging a strong relationship. American Journal
of Public Health, 92, 169?176.
Sindall, C. (2002) Does health promotion need a code of
ethics? Health Promotion International, 17, 201?203.
Yeo, M. (1993) Toward an ethic of empowerment for health
promotion. Health Promotion International, 8, 225?235.
5. Torill. I actually think you have already done a very good job of
researching things for us and I believe you already have a good
overview. Would it be possible for you to work on outlining the
questions you posed on the blog into a discussion you can lead for us
during the teleconference? I think the questions you ask are exactly
what we need to ponder-- I know for myself, I need a bit more
information, to answer them intelligently.
This is a just a suggestion of how we can divide this work. If you
would rather examine something other than what I have assigned, please
just let us know what you will be looking at. I am willing to trade
with anyone if my topic seems more interesting to you!
As I said, I would like to plan a teleconference for mid-March, so let
us plan to deliver the reports by 8 March. That will give us some time
to read them before the call.
Please send me an email confirming that you are able to do this work in
this timeframe, a date in mid-March for a conference call and where you
will be, so I can plan a time of day that will work for all of us.
THANKS!
Hope
I think we need to have a meeting. ISECN has successfully used SKYPE to
hold teleconferences with colleagues around the globe. I think we
should plan to have such a meeting in one month's time-- would
mid-March work for everyone?
Before we can have an intelligent discussion, I think we need to
immerse ourselves in the field of ethics a bit. I have taken the
liberty to divide up some of the reading Torill and Maurice have
gathered. I think we should all read our assigned papers/areas and then
write brief reports on them that we can, for now, publish on the blog
and then eventually publish on VHPO (when our stream gets up and
running). We can then give a brief presentation on our topics during
our teleconference.
I offer this distribution of responsibilities:
1. Gabrielle: You stated an interest in looking at ethics generally
from a philosophical point of view, what ethics means, why ethics are
important, different approaches to ethics etc, in order to provide a
solid foundation for our work. If you could write a report on these
topics-- it would help us immensely!
2. Nithat: I think it would be interesting to get a view of ethics from
a completely removed field. A website Torill found on ethics cited the
following articles from the field of Engineering. Would you mind
getting a hold of these and reporting on them to us?
Here are the citations:
Davis, Michael. "Thinking like an Engineer: The Place of a Code of
Ethics in the Practice of a Profession". Philosophy and Public Affairs
20.2 (1991): 150-167.
Harris, Charles E., Jr., Michael S. Pritchard and Michael J. Rabins.
Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth
Publishing, 1995.
Ladd, John. "The Quest for a Code of Professional Ethics: An
Intellectual and Moral Confusion". Ethical Issues in Engineering. Ed.
Deborah G. Johnson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1991. 130-136.
Luegenbiehl, Heinz C. "Codes of Ethics and the Moral Education of
Engineers", Business and Professional Ethics Journal 2 (1983): 41-61.
Rpt. in Ethical Issues in Engineering . Ed. Deborah G. Johnson.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1991. 137-154.
3. Elisha: This website that Torill found,
http://ethics.iit.edu/codes/Introduction.html, has gathered codes of
ethics from all kinds of fields over a number of years. Can you take a
careful look at this website and give us a report?
4. Hope: I was thinking I could follow up on these articles that
Maurice cited in his paper.
Buchanan, D. R. (2000) An Ethic for Health Promotion.
Rethinking the Sources of Human Well-being. Oxford
University Press, New York, pp. 81
Callahan, D. and Jennings, B. (2002) Ethics and public
health: forging a strong relationship. American Journal
of Public Health, 92, 169?176.
Sindall, C. (2002) Does health promotion need a code of
ethics? Health Promotion International, 17, 201?203.
Yeo, M. (1993) Toward an ethic of empowerment for health
promotion. Health Promotion International, 8, 225?235.
5. Torill. I actually think you have already done a very good job of
researching things for us and I believe you already have a good
overview. Would it be possible for you to work on outlining the
questions you posed on the blog into a discussion you can lead for us
during the teleconference? I think the questions you ask are exactly
what we need to ponder-- I know for myself, I need a bit more
information, to answer them intelligently.
This is a just a suggestion of how we can divide this work. If you
would rather examine something other than what I have assigned, please
just let us know what you will be looking at. I am willing to trade
with anyone if my topic seems more interesting to you!
As I said, I would like to plan a teleconference for mid-March, so let
us plan to deliver the reports by 8 March. That will give us some time
to read them before the call.
Please send me an email confirming that you are able to do this work in
this timeframe, a date in mid-March for a conference call and where you
will be, so I can plan a time of day that will work for all of us.
THANKS!
Hope
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