Ethical concerns might persist even if function could be completely restored to the patient: a brain-dead person with a healthy body, suitable for head transplantation, would be in great demand as an organ donor.

Ethical concerns surrounding the experiment often draw comparisons to the Milgram experiment, which was conducted in 1961 at Yale University by Stanley Milgram, Zimbardo's former high school friend.

* The Ethical Practices System ( EPS )-gives consumers the ability to express concerns or make complaints about the quality of interpreting / transliterating services

Ethical standards have been established across the world, and national and international ethical guidelines have been written.

Ethical issues like designed babies and human cloning have also given rise to controversies between and among scientists and bioethicists, especially in the light of past abuses with eugenics ( see reductio ad hitlerum ).

Ethical altruism can be seen as a consequentialist ethic which prescribes that an individual take actions that have the best consequences for everyone except for himself.

Ethical egoism contrasts with ethical altruism, which holds that moral agents have an obligation to help and serve others.

Ethical egoists such as Rand who readily acknowledge the ( conditional ) value of others to an individual, and who readily endorse empathy for others, have argued the exact reverse from Rachels, that it is altruism which discriminates: " If the sensation of eating a cake is a value, then why is it an immoral indulgence in your stomach, but a moral goal for you to achieve in the stomach of others?

Ethical hedonism is the idea that all people have the right to do everything in their power to achieve the greatest amount of pleasure possible to them.

Ethical hedonism is said to have been started by a student of Socrates, Aristippus of Cyrene.

Ethical egoism contrasts with ethical altruism, which holds that moral agents have an obligation to help and serve others.

" However, on May 11, 1987, the APA's Board of Social and Ethical Responsibility for Psychology ( BSERP ) rejected the DIMPAC report because the report " lacks the scientific rigor and evenhanded critical approach necessary for APA imprimatur ", and concluded that " after much consideration, BSERP does not believe that we have sufficient information available to guide us in taking a position on this issue.

Another case alluded to in the Torcaso v. Watkins footnote, and said by some to have established secular humanism as a religion under the law, is the 1957 tax case of Washington Ethical Society v. District of Columbia, 249 F. 2d 127 ( D. C. Cir.

Ethical questions have been raised about responsible corporate behavior, human rights, and endangering wildlife, due to the exploitation of resources such as coltan in the armed conflict regions of the Congo Basin.

Controversies and disputes have arisen with groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ), governmental and social agencies, and unions and trade groups over various topics.

Ethical considerations have thus far prevented any reported attempt by surgeons to transplant a human being's head.

US Presidents have focused attention on bioethics for several decades, for instance by forming the President's Commission on the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedicine and Behavioral Research, which produced the landmark report, " Defining Death " in 1981.

In 2003, Joseph Haptas, a spokesman from the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) approached then-Town Supervisor Patrick Hoak and asked him to have the name of Hamburg changed to Veggieburg.

Organizations that have been accused of eco-terrorism in the United States include the Animal Liberation Front ( ALF ), the Earth Liberation Front ( ELF ), Greenpeace, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ), Earth First !.

Ethical traditions in Hinduism have been influenced by caste norms.

The proportionality of harm versus benefit of medical procedures, as defined by Directives 29 and 33 of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services ( National Conference of Catholic Bishops ), have also been interpreted to support and reject the practice of circumcision.

If the ethical realist is instead an Ethical naturalist, they may start with the fact that humans have evolved and pursue some sort of evolutionary ethics ( which risks ' committing ' the moralistic fallacy ).

Nontheistic traditions of thought have played roles in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Raelism Humanistic Judaism, Unitarian Universalism, and Ethical Culture.

With BDSM, polyamorous, and non-monogamous people, in usage taken from the book The Ethical Slut, the term has been used as an expression of choice to openly have multiple partners, and revel in that choice: " a slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical proposition that sex is nice and pleasure is good for you.

These have included: Go Green Week, Stop AIDS, Darfur Week, Free Education, London Living Wage, Save a Life ( organ donation ), Students for Ethical Investment and Mental Health Week.

Ethical egoism has been alleged as the basis for immorality.

Ethical naturalism has been criticized most prominently by ethical non-naturalist G. E. Moore, who formulated the open-question argument.

According to the Five Books of Moses, Abraham is revered as the one who overcame the idol worship of his family and surrounding people by recognizing the Hebrew God and establishing a covenant with him and creating the foundation of what has been called by scholars " Ethical Monotheism ".

The British Humanist Association took that name in 1967, but had developed from the Union of Ethical Societies which had been founded by Stanton Coit in 1896.

The goal of the Ethical Leadership component has been articulated by MSU as " students will articulate their value systems, act ethically within the context of a democratic society, and demonstrate engaged and principled leadership.

As well as its activities in the UK, the NSS has been active in Europe and at the UN, often as a representative for the International Humanist and Ethical Union ( IHEU ).

Ethical socialism has been publicly supported by British Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, and Tony Blair.

In 1982, The Voice of Reason merged with the Center for Moral Democracy, which had been started by Ethical Culture leader Edward L. Ericson and others, to form a new organization, Americans for Religious Liberty, which continues as an advocacy group for the separation of church and state.

In the end the repeal, contained in the Ethical Standards in Public Life ( Scotland ) Bill was passed by 99 votes to 17 During the final debate, Alexander said "[...] Repeal is not, and never has been, about the promotion of homosexuality in our schools.

This statement of ethical principles of psychiatry had been drafted by the Ethical Sub-Committee of the Executive Committee established in 1973 in response to the increasing number of protests against using psychiatry for non-medical reasons.

Oviedo left the ruling Colorado Party and founded his own political party, National Union of Ethical Citizens, but lately has been criticized by his own followers for choosing his children and other family members for legislative candidacies, rather than political backers with more experience.

Greenery's list of titles include works by such notable authors such as Hardy herself, Dossie Easton, Wiseman and Midori, their most popular title is The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities, which has been translated into several languages and has sold over 50, 000 copies as of 2004.

The Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects ( see: Human subject research legislation in the United States ) enacted in 1977 remained in place: 45CFR § 46. 204 ( d ), " No application or proposal involving human in vitro fertilization may be funded by the Department or any component thereof until the application or proposal has been reviewed by the Ethical Advisory Board and the Board has rendered advice as to its acceptability from an ethical standpoint.

Ethical issues that have been raised with regards to surrogacy include:

This position has been represented in niche academic journals such as The Journal of Mind and Behavior and Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, which publishes material specifically countering " the idea that emotional distress is due to an underlying organic disease.

Ethical questions have been raised regarding the blood collection process with special emphasis on any potential discomfort caused to the fetus.

Scheuer was born and raised in New York City where he attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.