Keith Hamon comments, 'New structures demand new ethics', and Jenny Mackness writes, "On reading this, I immediately wondered whether this is true." I personally don't think that new structures require new ethics per se but I could perhaps be persuaded that we need to frame them differently. I like this: "core values which have not altered in medicine are:
- doing no harm (non-maleficence);
- a wish to do good (beneficence);
- the desire to be fair (justice),
- and a respect for the individual (autonomy)."
In my mapping of MOOC 'values' I recommend 'autonomy, diversity, openness, and interactivity', basing them on the principles of successful networks (and hence, societies). This is a different set, and maybe I should be including some combination of non-maleficence, beneficence and justice into my values?
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