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Others believe societal benefits from rigorous screening and tracing outweigh the invasion of some individuals' privacy. Sometimes a "concern for civil liberties has led us astray," argues Ethicist Ronald Bayer of the Hastings Center think tank, who is a strong advocate of contact notification. "Obviously this is no panacea; the case is strongest where the level of infection is still quite low. But it seems to me that the right to know is also a civil right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEALTH & FITNESS Cracking Down on the Victims | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...January of 1985, Bok decided to try the elusive ethicist one more time, spurred by the recommendations of an advisory committee which advocated instituting a University-wide ethics program to train young ethics teachers at Harvard's professional schools. And this time Thompson, who was on leave in California, accepted Bok's invitation and a lifetime post as Whitehead professor of political philosophy at the School of Government...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Training the Next Generation: Ethics and Education | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

While Thompson said he would like to see the Business School hire theologians and philosophers to teach ethics courses in the MBA program, Harvard is committed to its case study method of teaching business, which would require an ethicist to have a strong foundation in business as well...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Trying to Mix Ethics and Big Bucks | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

Lacking a universal code, many people have tried to substitute specific rules. Says Ethicist Daniel Callahan, co-founder and director of the Hastings Center think tank near New York City: "When most people talk about morals, they are concerned with laws and regulations and codes." When laws do not exist to regulate a particular situation, "we assume it is pretty much every person for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking to Its Roots | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...easy to say, 'let's hire an ethicist and let him teach something.' Our goal is to find fundamental ways of improving this," said Bower, who is also a professor of business administration. "I don't think it's our objective to have this as an elective activity. It seems to us quite central that the required program deal with ethical issues...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: B-School Ethics Endowment Will Fund Curriculum Changes | 4/8/1987 | See Source »

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