Volume 3

By Ashley Jones In many ways, it seems that corruption is a necessary evil. After all, it does exist in almost every society and is present among different races, religions, and socioeconomic classes. News outlets often cite corruption as being the catalyst for many social ills. For example, when Greece’s economy tanked, US News and … A Bitter Pill That Must Be Swallowed: An Ethics Based View of Corruption

By Margaret Hobbs In some instances, corruption is ethically permissible. A society should address corruption with a combined “voice” and “control” solution by engaging citizenry to improve legal institutions and public policy (Everett, Neu & Rahaman, 2006). To examine the ethical permissibility of corruption, it is necessary to first address what corruption is. Chinung-Ju Huang cites … Corruption and Ethics

By John Delurey My friend and I had somehow gone an entire day without paying a bribe. We were riding across Zanzibar, Tanzania on motorcycles and assumed that we would be easy targets for the notoriously corrupt police force. Sure enough, a police officer flagged us down towards the end of our journey and proceeded … Ethically Impermissible: An Analysis of Corruption from Welfare, Virtue, and Freedom Perspectives

By Chris Morgan* The laws surrounding corruption have centered on ethical considerations since society made its first attempt at curbing corrupt behavior. As the laws prohibiting corruption were written, legislators undoubtedly focused on what is morally or ethically wrong to determine what type of behavior constituted corruption. In this paper, I examine ethicality in its … Is Corruption Ever Ethically Permissible?

Dear Readers, The 2013-2014 Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service publication schedule has begun.  You might have noticed that we started this year with two articles related to healthcare.   We first published an article addressing the need for behavioral health advance directives by David Jung. We then followed up with an article by … Letter from the Editor

By Robert C. Patton, M.D.* ABSTRACT This paper reflects on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act’s (EMTALA) provision regarding hospitals who fail to properly accept an incoming, emergency ill patient – a process also known as “reverse dumping.” Offered as the single most important piece of legislation affecting emergency medicine passed in the … Death and Injury by Delay: Hidden Harm and EMTALA’s Reverse Dumping Provision

By David C. Jung   I. Introduction Consider the following scenarios: You are thirty-six years old and frightened. You were diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder five years ago and have been admitted to public psychiatric hospitals several times since. During your most recent hospitalization, your treating psychiatrist barely spoke English. No matter how hard you tried … Can True Parity Really Be Achieved? A Proposal for Behavioral Health Advance Directive Statutes with Bite