Ethical Implications and Accountability of Algorithms

Social Accountability of Medical Education Curriculum: Barriers and Implications

Introduction: Social accountability of curriculum is considered as the director of all medical education activities towards the training of medical practitioners who could be able to contribute to health needs of a population. This study tried to investigate some barriers to medical education social accountability and summarize the experimental based proposals and recommendations in internation...

The ethical implications of screening for HIV: whose choice reigns?

Improving transparency and ethical accountability in animal studies: three ways to link ethical approvals to publications.

The use of animals for research remains a highly controversial issue that receives much public attention and comment. This was illustrated, for example, by the participation in the European Commission’s internet consultation on the revision of Directive 86/609/EEC, which regulates their use in this way. Moreover, scientists using animals in their work still face fierce, sometimes violent opposi...

Ethical Issues and Policy Implications

Coverage with evidence development (CED) is an evolving method of providing provisional access to novel medical interventions while generating the evidence needed to determine whether unconditional coverage is warranted. In this article we review the policy rationale for CED and present a normative analysis that addresses ethical concerns and policy implications.

Levinas\'s Ethical Theory of the other and Its Implications on Education

Background: Modern subject-based philosophy, in which everything reduces to the whole, reduces to the Other to I, or emanates it from the realm of knowledge, ignores the differences, currently cannot answer to ethics. Levinas, as a philosopher who has a concern about the “Other", believes that there is no subject that needs to be known, and the other is "Self" in advance and is touched rather t...