PROFESSIONAL ETHICS 2022/2023 Introduction What is ethics? Professional codes of practice Some case studies Types of ethical studies Ethics “branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions” We are Chemist, aren’t we? • (Professional) Chemist are expected to act ethically • How important are ethics in today’s society? • How about laws? We have it, if legal we can do it. • However, not always “clear” what is legal “Minus” of the laws Does not cover all situations Ex: issue about GStreet View What is the correlation among these? Ethics Morality Laws THANK YOU!
