Ethics

An Ordeal in Iran (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

An American business executive in revolutionary Iran seeks to take a series of steps to allow hundreds of his firm's employees to safely escape the country. But doing so, he finds, means doing business with a merchant who asks something in...

An Ordeal in Iran

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

An American business executive in revolutionary Iran seeks to take a series of steps to allow hundreds of his firm's employees to safely escape the country. But doing so, he finds, means doing business with a merchant who asks something in...

Summit or Stand-Off: Responding to Lithuania's Bid for Independence

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

For some five decades, the United States considered the Baltic Republic of Lithuania to be a "captive nation," a country that had been annexed against its will into the Soviet Union. The US had never formally accepted the annexation, although...

Last Rights: Honoring a Patient's Wishes for Artificial Feeding (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

After an elderly woman, in apparently failing health, is sent to a nursing home, the nursing staff becomes convinced that she is responding to care and treatment. In the wake of new medical problems, however, the physician hired by her family...

Last Rights: Honoring a Patient's Wishes for Artificial Feeding

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

After an elderly woman, in apparently failing health, is sent to a nursing home, the nursing staff becomes convinced that she is responding to care and treatment. In the wake of new medical problems, however, the physician hired by her family...

Buying Time: The Dollar-a-Day Program

Publication Date: January 1, 1990

The Dollar-a-Day program created by Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood takes a novel approach to the problem of repeat pregnancies among the city's low-income teenagers: it pays girls a dollar for every day they do not get pregnant. Other than...

Constructive Engagement in Angola and Namibia: The Ethics of Coercive Negotiation

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case explores the US role in attempting to craft a settlement of disputes in two Southern African nations: Namibia, an illegally-controlled colony of South Africa under siege by a black guerilla movement, and Angola, where a leftist...

High Price of Free Speech: Story of a Guatemalan Journalist

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case provides students of journalism, law and international affairs with a vivid picture of the effects of political and physical intimidation on the press. When a democratic government succeeds military rule in Guatemala, former engineer...

Constructive Engagement in South Africa: The Ethics of Persuasion

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case joins the debate surrounding the approach of constructive engagement, placing it in the context of South Africa itself and presenting the moral justification for the policy as put forward both by President Reagan and Assistant...

A Problem at the Housing Authority (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The executive director of a housing authority in a southwestern state uncovers evidence of collusion between the board of directors and a local realty corporation. After apparent attempts by the board president at bribery and intimidation, the...

A Problem at the Housing Authority

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The executive director of a housing authority in a southwestern state uncovers evidence of collusion between the board of directors and a local realty corporation. After apparent attempts by the board president at bribery and intimidation, the...

Cocaine Mothers

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

Early in 1989, prosecutors in Florida charged a woman with child abuse after she gave birth to her second baby born with signs of cocaine dependency. This case briefly summarizes the problem of cocaine use, the effects of prenatal exposure, and...