Where the ethical action is

It is common to think of medical and ethical modes of thought as different in kind. In such terms, some clinical situations are made more complicated by an additional ethical component. Against this picture, we propose that medical and ethical modes of thought are not different in kind, but merely different aspects of what it means to be human. We further propose that clinicians are uniquely positioned to synthesise these two aspects without prior knowledge of philosophical ethics.

Whistleblowing as a Career Crisis: Recovering from Retaliatory Job Loss through a Process of Bifurcation

Although whistleblowing is presented as an ethical action, the fate of the employee who has blown the whistle is often marked by reprisals, such as job loss. The literature has so far shown little interest in the whistleblower’s subsequent career. This article investigates how retaliatory job loss impacts his or her career path and the process for re-integrating into the labour market. Based on 11 career narratives focused on the professional experience of French whistleblowers, this article shows that they faced a bifurcation that can be schematized in six stages (event, moratorium, reassessment, job search, insertion, stabilization) as their emotions and actions change over time. As with any job loss, individuals face psychological difficulties associated with the grievance, but this article also highlights specificities, particularly in terms of isolation, reputation and trust in the business world. Their presence threatening the dominant norms, whistleblowers face contradictions and need the support of the social and institutional environment for their professional reintegration.

Hospitalitas Kepemimpinan Kristen Sebagai Tindakan Etis di Tengah Pandemi Covid-19

Hospitalization of Christian leadership as ethical action in the midst of a pandemic is the focus of this study. By looking at the polemic and the crunch that has occurred in the community as a result of the spread of Covid-19, it is very necessary to have an attitude of vitality. Christian leadership hospitality as an ethical action in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic is a form of ethical attitude to build empathy as an effort to instill human values in the midst of the pandemic. The goal is to instill service motivation based on love as well as an effort to build empathy as an effort to maintain a sense of humanity in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic through the leadership process. In achieving this study, the method used in this study is the literature method, namely the development of several studies as material contributions in this paper. This study concludes that Christian leadership hospitality as an ethical act in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic is an implementation of the motivation for loving service which aims to build empathy in society about the importance of maintaining a sense of humanity in undergoing social distancing. Christian leadership hospitality must be viewed as an effort to reveal God's love for this world through a leadership process in the context of a pandemic. Motivation from Christian leadership is a form of hospitality that Christian leaders can expect in taking ethical action in the midst of polemic and in the community about the covid-19 outbreak.Keywords: Hospitalization, Christian Leadership, Ethics, Pandemic, Covid-19.

What Could Be, But Never Has Been: Horizons of Human Rights and Racial Justice

The US’s authority as chief enforcer of human rights grows increasingly illusory as civil unrest brings the quotidian nature of racialised human rights violations in the US into a frame shared by authoritarian regimes. This reality animates my analysis of how an organisation I call Doctors for Humanity (DfH) finds its footing in a terrain of human rights enforcement that is shifting from a global to a domestic focus. The US is not an actual space of freedom but often represents the limit of possible freedoms. This horizon evokes something that always could be but never has been and unmasks what I analyse as a constitutive unfreedom at the heart of liberalism in American empire. To attend to human rights violations in the US is to undermine American authority and its right and responsibility to make claims about the actions of other nations. As a future physician and human rights advocate invested in racial justice, I illuminate the paradoxes of ethical action within a context where the possibility of freedom for some depends upon the unfreedom of others. To effectively police human rights from this perspective necessitates the deconstruction of the US as a space of freedom, pointing instead towards a praxis of global human rights which lives up to the concept’s aspirational universality.

Influence Of Taqwa (Piety) On Sustaining Corporate Governance Of Zakat Institutions

This study examines the influence of taqwa (piety) on sustaining corporate governance. Taqwa (piety) manifests sincerity, integrity, wisdom, and persistency in generating ethical decisions and actions. Organizational corporate governance is in the hands of gatekeepers, employees, and other stakeholders of organizations. Any inadequacy of ethical decisions and actions is a reflection of deficit in taqwa (piety). This study uses personal interview to solicit the views of selected gatekeepers and executives of zakat institutions in Southeast Asia pertaining to the influence of taqwa (piety) level of the gatekeepers in sustaining good corporate governance in zakat institutions. The gatekeepers argued that professionalism and transparency are embedded in the code of conduct for professionals. The legal abiding behavior is confined within the scope of the code of conduct. Beyond legal obligation is the social obligation. The executives contended that taqwa (piety) is the essential spiritual strength to sustain ethical action through corporate governance. The study argued that taqwa (piety) in ethical leadership sustains organizational corporate governance.

Anthropologist and Tourist: Mobility of the Udehe Image in Ethnographic Space

The article tries to trace the formation, transformation, and deconstruction of the image of the author’s studied object. At the same time, it is proposed to consider the movement of the subject in the ethnographic space, that is, a temporal and geographically unified space that includes field research, presentations, conversations with colleagues, writing the text of an article, etc. The concept of imaginaries, which is central to the representation of the object, is considered in comparison with tourism practices, where the image is a central element, which gives a better understanding of the practices of both. It is argued that when deconstructing an image, the researcher’s position on the object and the ethnographic space change. The method of self-ethnography and mobility as a concept metaphor serve as tools for deconstructing the image. The main result of such a deconstruction is the ethical conclusions of the relationship of the subject to the object, as well as the performative effect of auto–ethnography. The author at the same time tries to find a solution to establish a reciprocity in relation to the object, as a kind of mandatory ethical action. One of the possible solutions seems to be the use of anthropological knowledge in the commodification of the object’s culture in its economic interests.