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Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
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Holdings: 1996-

Toward a Code of Ethics for Cataloging

Toward a Code of Ethics for Cataloging
Sheila Bair - Technical Services Quarterly, 2005

Cataloging is the foundation of librarianship, and catalogers are professionals with special skills that set them apart from the profession in general and give them unique ethical responsibilities.

Identity and Inequality: Race and Space in Planning.

Title: Identity and Inequality: Race and Space in Planning.
Authors: Heikkila, Eric J
Source: Planning Theory & Practice; Dec2001, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p261-275, 15p

Abstract: Planners' concerns for spatial equity and for racial equity are expressed tangibly through legislation designed to promote regional development, enterprise zones, affirmative action, and in other spheres of practice. Equity concerns take on heightened meaning where issues of space and race intersect, such as inner-city revitalization or environmental justice. This article explores the underlying basis for issues of social justice in the context of race and space, leading to two principle findings. First, there is a tight correspondence between the role of race and space in the social construction of identity and corresponding formulations of social justice. This point is demonstrated using five diverse examples from the realm of practice. Second, there is a danger of misapplication of principles of social justice where the implicit dimensions of one problem sphere are applied to another. This point is illustrated with two examples; a defunct World Bank proposal to marketize waste disposal and an effort in California to restore racial equity in public university admissions through spatially mediated interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Case presentation: demise by decision, dementia, or depression?

Gallagher,R . "Case presentation: demise by decision, dementia, or depression?" Journal of Pain and Symptom Management [0885-3924] 20.3 (2000). 233-4.

Deep Difference: Diversity, Planning and Ethics -- Watson 5 (1): 31 -- Planning Theory

Planning Theory, Vol. 5, No. 1, 31-50 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1473095206061020
© 2006 SAGE Publications
Deep Difference: Diversity, Planning and Ethics
Vanessa Watson

University of Cape Town, South Africa; watson@eng.uct.ac.za

The article suggests that planning's current sources of moral philosophy are no longer an entirely satisfactory guide on issues of ethical judgement in a context of deepening social difference and an increasingly hegemonic market rationality. A focus on process in planning and a relative neglect of product, together with the assumption that such processes can be guided by a universal set of deontological values shaped by the liberal tradition, are rendered particularly problematic in a world which is characterized by deepening social and economic differences and inequalities and by the aggressive promotion of neoliberal values by particular dominant nation-states. The notion of introducing values into deliberative processes is explored.

Key Words: conflict • ethics • judgement • social difference • values

Beatly - "Environmental Ethics and Planning Theory"

"Environmental Ethics and Planning Theory"

Beatley, T. (Winter) 1989
JOURNAL OF PLANNING LITERATURE 4:1-32

Administrative Discretion and Urban and Regional Planners' Values -- Forsyth 14 (1): 5 -- Journal of Planning Literature

Journal of Planning Literature, Vol. 14, No. 1, 5-15 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/08854129922092559
© 1999 SAGE Publications
Administrative Discretion and Urban and Regional Planners' Values
Ann Forsyth

Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University

This article explores the possibilities for using administrative discretion to do planning that reflects urban and regional planners' own deeply held values. The article first charts the broad character of administrative discretion and the limits of discretion. Potential problems include a lack of accountability, manipulation, unpredictability, intrusiveness, and poor decision making. The second section of the article examines one area of value-based planning-progressive planning. It concludes that administrative discretion may provide enough space for value-based planning, but using discretion for such actions often requires testing a set of ethical and political limits of working within governments.

Business Ethics Center of Jerusalem Electronic Library and Resource Center

Business Ethics Center of Jerusalem Electronic Library and Resource Center
The Online Business Ethics Library presents articles on a wide variety of topics, illustrating how values and Jewish ethics can impact everyday business and work decisions (The Jerusalem College of Technology).

Harvard College v. Canada (Commissioner of Patents), 2002 SCC 76 (CanLII)

[2002] S.C.C. 76.

PATENTING THE BIOLOGICAL BOUNTY OF NATURE by Burton T. Ong

LexisNexis: 8 Marq. Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 1 (Winter, 2004)

Ethics of Patenting Transgenic Animals

Winning Independence: Scholarly Communication at Penn

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Winning Independence: Scholarly Communication at Penn

Creating Successful Research Skills Assignments

Dealing with Documentation Issues in the Classroom

Cartographic citations : a style guide / by Suzanne M. Clark, Mary Lynette Larsgaard and Cynthia M. Teague.

Clark, Suzanne M. . Cartographic citations : a style guide / by Suzanne M. Clark, Mary Lynette Larsgaard and Cynthia M. Teague. [083897581X ] Chicago : Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association, 1992.
Call#: GA108.7 .C53 1992

Research Ethics, Writing, Citation and Grammar Guides

Can ethics be taught? : perspectives, challenges, and approaches at Harvard Business School / Thomas R. Piper, Mary C. Gentile, Sharon Daloz Parks ; foreword by John H. McArthur.

Piper, Thomas R. . Can ethics be taught? : perspectives, challenges, and approaches at Harvard Business School / Thomas R. Piper, Mary C. Gentile, Sharon Daloz Parks ; foreword by John H. McArthur. [0875844006 (alk. paper) : ] Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School, c1993.
Call#: Lippincott Library HF5387 .P56 1993

Ethics, education, and administrative decisions : a book of readings / edited by Peter Andre Sola ; footnote and bibliographic format by Paula Pedersen.

Ethics, education, and administrative decisions : a book of readings / edited by Peter Andre Sola ; footnote and bibliographic format by Paula Pedersen. [082040148X : ] New York : P. Lang, c1984.
Call#: Van Pelt Library LB2341 .E77 1984

Normative copyright: A conceptual framework for copyright philosophy and ethics

Garon,JM . "Normative copyright: A conceptual framework for copyright philosophy and ethics" Cornell law review [0010-8847] 88.5 (2003). 1278-1360.

Corporate intelligence and espionage : a blueprint for executive decision making / Richard Eells and Peter Nehemkis.

Eells, Richard Sedric Fox and Peter Nehemkis. "The Value of Private Intelligence." Corporate intelligence and espionage : a blueprint for executive decision making / Richard Eells and Peter Nehemkis. [002909240X] New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1984. 185-196
Call#: Lippincott Library HD38.7 .E34 1984

Private intelligence is how non-governmental firms gather information in order to increase or maintain power or profits. This issue creates a major dilemma in business ethics, the companies can legally conduct surveillance, but it may not be in the scope of fair play. Many companies can stretch the validity of information gathering by arguing that growth in profits is ultimately good for society because it leads to more progress. Ultimately, Corporations can conduct a variety of activities that would seem immoral in everyday life, but considering that their primary incentives are to please the shareholders, garnering profits often becomes the most important goal. Corporate power, as well as government power, was a growing concern in the 1970s. In The Conversation, a corporation hires Harry Caul to spy on a young couple from San Francisco. Initially, the viewer does not know why, as Harry seems to care less about the subject of the conversation, but soon his role as a middle man in these private exchanges creates an increasing paranoia. We see many examples of legal surveillance contracted by corporations throughout the movie; when Stanley is reading an article about an upcoming convention in a trade paper he lauds “William P. Moran of Detroit, Michigan…He’s the guy that told Chrysler that Cadillac was getting rid of its fins”. The movie’s portrayal of corporations as anonymous, dull, and faceless fits with the atmosphere of the time and the public’s fear of centralized power. Harry realizes, in the midst of his second dangerous encounter with his job, that his work may be immoral, and he struggles with his duty to prevent something bad from happening.