Ethical dilemmas

Question 1

What is the ethical grid?

Answer 1

Question 2

What are the challenges in ethics?

Answer 2

• Limited resources e.g. time, expertise, staff, accountable sources of advice and variable quality
• Integrating ethics into scientific practice so it becomes automatic in decision-making rather than settling for ‘moral mediocrity’than settling for ‘moral mediocrity’
• Research Ethics committee review is part of the picture, but ethics does not end there.
• Constructing ethics as ‘hoop jumping’, ‘common sense’, ‘yet more rules’ or ‘irrelevant’