ethical implications

collocation in English

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ethical
adjective
uk
/ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl/
relating to beliefs about what is morally right ...
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implication
noun
uk
/ˌɪm.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɪm.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
an occasion when you seem to suggest something without saying ...
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(Definition ofethicalandimplicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Ideas are transformed by the contexts within which they are deployed, and consequently one cannot judge their ethical implications in the abstract.
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However, the problem with these assessments is that they neither identify the moral values involved in home-based telemedicine nor address its possible ethical implications.
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What are the ethical implications of developing e-health applications that require high-end technologies to function?
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Cosmetic surgery of the aging face: social, psychological, and ethical implications.
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The ethical implications of this should be obvious.
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What are the legal and ethical implications of what we do or propose to do?
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But it may be concerned only with the ethical implications of the technology.
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Predicting outcomes of early expressive language delay : ethical implications.
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This, of course, corresponds to a period of increased attention to the moral and ethical implications of biomedical research.
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Curiously, bioethicists have failed or refused to recognize and articulate the ethical implications of undertreated pain.
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In both cases, the term describes a certain sort of motivation, but with entirely different psychological assumptions and entirely different ethical implications.
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None of the researchers commented upon the suitability and ethical implications of ' artificial conversations', which might increase the confusion of a participant with dementia.
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The ethical implications of a practice that strives to accomplish an act despite the doer are far-reaching.
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This emphasis on the acceptance of difference and diversity has ethical implications for how public health should treat disability.
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In this paper, we discuss the relative advantages and disadvantages of each option and discuss their attendant ethical implications.
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The subject may have ethical implications.
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A close examination of how guidelines approach patient selection criteria offers insight into their ethical implications when used as resource allocation or rationing instruments.
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The text's beautiful, delicate, cautious, and painstaking calligraphy is equally encoded with ethical implications.
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