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Ethics and information science

✍ Scribed by Kochen, Manfred

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1987
Tongue: English
Weight: 518 KB
Volume: 38
Category: Article
ISSN: 0002-8231
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(198705)38:3<206::aid-asi9>3.0.co;2-8

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✦ Synopsis

The challenge of ethical problem solving in the context of the information-science professions has fostered debate over whether a code of ethics might not provide a valuable guide to decision making in situations involving ethical conflicts.

Sample issues and questions are presented with an aim toward placing them in historical and philosophical frameworks for considering the tension between knowledge and power. While the article concludes that ethical choices are too dynamic and unpredictable to make a fixed code useful, practical guidelines to help information professionals act out of wisdom are offered.

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