Sentences with phrase «of ethical risks»

It is hopefully, though, a helpful resource that lawyers can use as a starting point to self - assess what competence gaps they may have when it comes to using technology in their practices and gain a better understanding of the ethical risks they may be exposed to as a result.

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I came away from this recent conversation with a deeper understanding of the ethical risks posed by AI, insights into behavioral data science, and cautious optimism that we can use these tools and technology to create the financial world we want to live in.

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In this social experiment, those questions cover everything from patient privacy to the ethical dilemma of warning someone about a risk they can't avoid.

Not surprisingly, the risk of retaliation for corporate whistleblowers is far lower at businesses that have already created a strong ethical culture in the first place, the study found.

Richard Leblanc, an expert on corporate governance and accountability, believes that the risk posed by ethics and trust has increased because of the ease and speed with which ethical breaches can be captured (eg on smartphones) and shared (via social media).

The risk for our time is that the de facto interdependence of people and nations is not matched by ethical interaction of consciences and minds that would give rise to truly human development.»

It said: «Disinvestment applies in cases where companies are unresponsive to investor concerns, require a disproportionate level of engagement and / or pose too great an ethical risk to warrant continued engagement.»

Since neither cynical liberal supporters of Clinton, nor idealistic liberal supporters of Sanders see much prospect of general election defeat, they are both willing to take more risks (both ethical and ideological) in order to get more of what they want after the 2016 election.

And in exploring the wide implications of it all, he noted «the risk of an alliance between democracy and ethical relativism, which would remove any sure moral reference point from political and social life, and on a deeper level make the acknowledgement of truth impossible» (VS 101) and warned us, as he had done in an earlier encyclical, that «As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism».

First, there is the risk of separating private faith and devotion from public decision making and ethical behaviour.

But sociobiology tells too banal a story to be able to account for radical altruism — the ethical imperative that leads a person to risk his or her own life in the attempt to save an unknown and unrelated stranger from the danger of death.

And they also show how democratic pluralism, while it always runs the risk of merging with a philosophy of secularism that legitimates an unjust polity, can and usually does preserve enough of its spiritual and ethical moorings to sustain relative justice and freedom of religion.

Brought together as part of the Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return (FAIRR) initiative, they include the fund arms of insurer Aviva and Norwegian lender Nordea, asset management groups Boston Common and Impax, several Swedish state pension funds and several other charities and ethical investors.

In this paper, we will argue that both professionals and pregnant women have an ethical obligation to minimise risk of long - term harm to the future child...

Thus the decision on whether to perform an elective cesarean delivery (also known as «patient choice cesarean» or «cesarean on demand») will come down to a number of ethical factors including the patient's concerns and the physician's understanding of the procedure's risks and benefits.

Because of the well established risks and the lack of encouraging outcome data, such practice must be labelled as inadvisable and experimental with all ethical safeguards that pertain to clinical experimentation.

'' Do you really, really think it's ethical to see something that has the potential to ruin a child's life — and a mother, by extension — and not recommend a course that would avoid the risk when the risks of the exchange are so small in comparison?»

And since you liked me asking you what you think so much, let me ask you another question: Do you really, really think it's ethical to see something that has the potential to ruin a child's life — and a mother, by extension — and not recommend a course that would avoid the risk when the risks of the exchange are so small in comparison?

Further design details for the cohort study, including the eligibility criteria, sample size calculations, derivation of risk status, outcome measures, and ethical procedures, are reported elsewhere.13

An integration audit, Audit on Baby Ethical Marketing Practices, conducted by the Danone Group in August 2013 «did not identify any payments made to doctors» by Nutricia India employees, but concluded there is «still a risk of non-compliance.»

«The ethical risk and the legal risk around it were in the hand of the editor.

This brings many benefits for diagnoses, risk prediction and clinical management, but there are accompanying ethical and legal issues of managing information that is relevant to both the individual and their family.

It's important for adults to connect discussion with teens and young adults about romantic and sexual relationships and misogyny and harassment to ethical questions about their obligation to treat others with dignity and respect, intervene when others are at risk of being harmed, and advocate for those who are vulnerable.

Dr Berger explains that despite seeking to ensure the safety of their patient and doing nothing more than following their own ethical code, these doctors risk facing up to two years imprisonment under the 2015 Border Force Act.

In the past decade, ethical questions in science have made headlines on issues such as the patenting of human genes, financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research and risk assessments related to environmental exposure to chemicals.

Or do we try something different and manage the risks of the ethical minefield?»

That meant the balance of risk and harm from HRT was still uncertain, they said, and it was ethical to keep enrolling women provided they were fully informed about the risks.

«The marketing objective of selling services by making them seem attractive to consumers can create tensions or outright conflict with the ethical imperative of respect for persons, since the latter requires that patients make medical decisions in light of balanced information about the full range of risks and benefits associated with their care,» said London, professor of philosophy in CMU's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and director of the Center for Ethics and Policy.

Given the study's findings, Amos Grunebaum, M.D. and Frank Chervenak, M.D., the main authors of the study, said that obstetric practitioners have an ethical obligation to disclose the increased absolute and relative risks associated with planned home birth to expectant parents who express an interest in this delivery setting, and to recommend strongly against it.

However, stem cell - based approaches are costly, time - consuming, and limited by ethical concerns and the risk of tumor formation.

He also requests that the panel, led by University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, recommend «any actions the Federal government should take to ensure that America reaps the benefits of this developing field of science while identifying appropriate ethical boundaries and minimizing identified risks.»

The United Kingdom is «much more permissive,» agrees Pollard, but he says the trials go through extensive ethical reviews, and the risk of transmission is «near zero» if people have good hygiene.

Geison uses the example of Pasteur as an argument that modern ethical standards «leave too little room for risk - taking and simple human courage», especially when dealing with an inevitably fatal disease such as rabies — or AIDS.

«As a result we were able to clarify the risk for particularly sensitive groups of people, who never would have been able to take part in a study for ethical reasons,» says Josef Dommen.

Berns and Ariely also highlight the ethical risks of neuromarketing, such as privacy concerns over «mind reading» and suspicion it will be used to «trick» people into buying things they don't want or need.

«Whatever the real level of risk, the French authorities are not fulfilling their ethical responsibilities towards the populations that have been potentially exposed.

For their part, the researchers believe that once they sort out the technical issues of getting an egg subjected to these IVF procedures to develop into a normal, viable embryo, the benefits of allowing a couple to have a healthy child far outweigh other risks or ethical concerns.

As the committee explains, «If effective, MRT could satisfy the desire of women seeking to have a genetically related child with a significantly reduced risk of passing on mtDNA disease, yet the techniques raise ethical, social, and policy issues» [1].

Another major ethical challenge results from the variability in the predictive value of genotypic information and how such information can be used to inform risk management policy when our understanding of risk is inexact.

An ethical tension would arise if we were to consider screening at - risk populations for such variants and using the genomic information to influence a range of clinical and public health decisions.

How can the US «reap the benefits of this developing field of science while identifying ethical boundaries and minimizing risks?»

Human challenge trials like this one are an extremely efficient way for scientists to tell whether a particular vaccine is effective, but they are rarely conducted because of the ethical dilemma of the risk it places on volunteers who are purposely exposed to a virus.

The risks of releasing synthetic organisms into the environment — intentionally or unintentionally — have barely begun to be defined, and the urgently needed ethical, legal and regulatory oversight mechanisms have yet to be developed.

Presentations included: Genetics Primer & Clinical Updates by Linford Williams, MS, LGC; Genetics and Women's Health: Seeing and Foreseeing the Ethical Challenges Ahead by Ruth Farrell, MD, MA; Preimplantation Genetic Screening and Diagnosis: What You Need to Know by Marissa Coleridge, MS, LGC; Evolution of Prenatal Genetic Screening and Testing: NIPT and Beyond by Jeff Chapa, MD, MBA; Promises and Pitfalls of Prenatal Whole Exome Sequencing by Amanda Kalan, MD; Fertility Preservation and Cancer: Survivors, Previvors, and the Newly Diagnosed by Rebecca Flyckt, MD; Improving Access to Cancer Genetics via Telegenetics by Ryan Noss, MS, LGC; Breast Cancer: Management of Moderate Penetrance Predisposition Genes by Holly Pederson, MD; Use of Hormonal and Non-hormonal Therapies in Breast Cancer Survivors and Women at High Risk for Breast / Gyn Cancers by Holly Thacker, MD; Addressing Commonly Asked Patient Questions about Genetics by Rebekah Moore, MS, LGC, Christina Rigelsky, MS, LGC and Allison Schreiber, MS, LGC; and a panel discussion on Genetic Testing Reimbursement featuring Bruce Rogen, MD, MPH and John Yao, MD, MBA, MPH, which was moderated by Daniel Sullivan, MD..

«Waving or increasing acceptable risk levels raises serious ethical flags, if the true nature of the risks are not sufficiently understood.»

«Genetic and genomic tests are not uniquely challenging with respect to ethical, legal, or psychosocial considerations, but these features justify careful thought and an element of caution as we assess the benefits and risks of these evolving technologies.»

This study found a strong emphasis on issues of risk and innovation, and weakly developed discourses on ethical and political issues, an imbalance that could still elicit controversies in the near future.

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Consent considerations for data sharing in MME included both the ethical and legal differences between clinical and research settings and the level of privacy risk involved in sharing varying amounts of rare disease patient data to enable patient matches.