The Subpoena of Ethnographic Data

This essay outlines the author's experience of having his ethnographic data subpoenaed. It outlines the challenges of subpoena's to research, and suggests four solutions: (1) Apply for and utilize the National Institutes of Health certificate of confidentiality by asking health‐related questions over the course of one's research; (2) Establish a task force that articulates clear ethical guidelines for ethnographic research, with attention to the conditions wherein ethnographers can break confidentiality (and might also comply with subpoenas). These ethical guidelines should then be made clear to research subjects as a part of informed consent processes; (3) Demand that institutions (institutional review boards) that require confidentiality as a condition of research be required to defend that confidentiality through the office of the general counsel; (4) Socialize the cost of subpoenas, wherein scholars can be part of an insurance pool that will defend them in the event of a subpoena and thereby defend the general enterprise of ethnographic research.     

Making Professional Decisions in Research: Measurement and Key Predictors

The professional decision-making in research (PDR) measure was administered to 400 National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded and industry-funded investigators, along with measures of cynicism, moral disengagement, compliance disengagement, impulsivity, work stressors, knowledge of responsible conduct of research (RCR), and socially desirable response tendencies. Negative associations were found for the PDR and measures of cynicism, moral disengagement, and compliance disengagement, while positive associations were found for the PDR and RCR knowledge and positive urgency, an impulsivity subscale. PDR scores were not related to socially desirable responding, or to measures of work stressors and the remaining impulsivity subscales. In a multivariate logistic regression analysis, lower moral disengagement scores, higher RCR knowledge, and identifying the United States as one’s nation of origin emerged as key predictors of stronger performance on the PDR. The implications of these findings for understanding the measurement of decision-making in research and future directions for research and RCR education are discussed.     

What drives a tough call: Determining the importance of contingency factors and individual characteristics in communication executives’ stance decision-making through a conjoint analysis

To further the understanding of how communication executives make tough calls in times of organizational-public conflict, we use a conjoint analysis to identify key drivers for organizational stance decision-making. This is the first-ever conjoint analysis applied to advancing the contingency theory of strategic conflict management by examining the relative importance of key contingency factors as determined by practitioners with varied individual characteristics. This study investigates: 1) the relevant importance of and dynamics between three key contingency factors (i.e., external threats, organizational characteristics, and dominant coalition characteristics); 2) the influence of individual characteristics (e.g., gender, experience, and personal ethics) in stance decision-making process; and 3) how different types of organizational stances (i.e., general stance, action-based accommodation, and qualified-rhetoric-mixed accommodation) are determined by these contingency factors and individual characteristics in different conflict situations. Results generated among our communication executive participants include: individual characteristics (i.e., gender, ethics and social responsibility, whistleblowing tendencies, and over 20 years in the communications field) are influential for their strategic conflict management decision-making. Implications for refining the contingency theory and unearthing complex public relations decision-making processes via novel statistical techniques are discussed.     

Anticipated Ethics and Regulatory Challenges in PCORnet: The National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network

PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network, seeks to establish a robust national health data network for patient-centered comparative effectiveness research. This article reports the results of a PCORnet survey designed to identify the ethics and regulatory challenges anticipated in network implementation. A 12-item online survey was developed by leadership of the PCORnet Ethics and Regulatory Task Force; responses were collected from the 29 PCORnet networks. The most pressing ethics issues identified related to informed consent, patient engagement, privacy and confidentiality, and data sharing. High priority regulatory issues included IRB coordination, privacy and confidentiality, informed consent, and data sharing. Over 150 IRBs and five different approaches to managing multisite IRB review were identified within PCORnet. Further empirical and scholarly work, as well as practical and policy guidance, is essential if important initiatives that rely on comparative effectiveness research are to move forward.     

杜甫亲情诗的情感特征和情感渊源

杜甫的亲情诗不仅数量多，而且颇有个性色彩，其情感的广阔性、深重性、真挚性非常鲜明。这一特色的形成，一方面是因为杜甫深受儒家文化尤其是儒家传统伦理道德观的影响，另一方面，也与其漂泊的人生经历和每况愈下的健康状况有关。     

Saints and sinners: Competing identities in public relations ethics

Public relations ethics is confused and often superficial in its approach, relying heavily on traditional theory, with only occasional reference to more recent developments in professional ethics, particularly feminist and global ethical perspectives.     

企业推进消费文明的路径探索

应对＂消费—生态＂悖论,缓解生态危机,促进消费文明走向生态文明,企业应提高企业家和员工的生态道德素质,加强企业伦理建设,从而牢固树立生态消费理念,践行＂合度＂、＂合宜＂、＂合道＂的客观要求,实现经济合理性、生态合理性、伦理合理性的价值诉求,遵循环境友好,可持续发展,以人为本等基本原则,实施绿色、低碳的生态化模式,推进消费文明的发展。     

论公务员职业道德建设的法制化路径

改革开放以来，我国公务员面临着来自新的复杂环境和新的工作要求所带来的多方面挑战。近几年，公务员职业道德方面的问题日益凸显，形式主义、官僚主义等问题突出，弄虚作假、贪污腐败之风盛行。这些问题严重影响了民生与安定，阻碍了民主政治建设的进程。而将公务员职业道德建设法制化，利用法与道德的相互关系，通过国家强制力与配套机构来保障法律实施，对于我国公务员职业道德建设会是成效显著而意义非凡的。     

网络怨恨的价值位移——基于舍勒现象学的分析

当前网络表达中到处弥漫的怨恨情绪,使技术理性的价值产生位移或曰颠覆,正价值如正义、公平、为承认而斗争等,在怨恨的情绪及其网络表达中导向负价值:网络暴政、人的主体性的消解,使人陷入"单向度的人"的危险。当下网络表达的无序和失序,正是怨恨的现象学呈现。因而,透过现象学观察的怨恨及其网络表达,或许可为我们反思批判当下和建构新的网络伦理提供一个新的思路。     

尼采哲学中的战争伦理思想探析

在西方思想史上,尼采与德国法西斯主义的关系一直是一个无法回避的问题。尼采战争伦理思想的产生和发展,与西方崇尚强权的政治哲学传统、德意志尚武的民族精神和思想家们对人性伦理的极大关注有着十分紧密的联系。只有深入追踪尼采哲学及其战争伦理思想,了解其背景、主旨和矛盾困境,才能理解尼采的＂战争＂的真正含义,理清他与德国法西斯主义的种种纠葛。