Is there room for religious ethics in South African abortion law?

Title: Is There Room for Ethics within Bioinoformatics Education?

When bioinformatics education is considered, several issues are addressed. At the undergraduate level the main issue revolves around conveying information from two main and different fields; biology and computer science. At the graduate level, the main issue is bridging the gap between biology students and computer science students. However, there is an educational component that is rarely addr...

Representations of the Brain and the Mind in Computer Science: Is There Room for Religious Concepts?

In this paper we review the essential concepts of representing brain and mind behaviors as computer programs. First, we review the essence of neural networks, rule-based reasoning systems, and case-based reasoning systems and summarize the progress of these representations to date. Next, and more importantly, we ask a series of interrelated questions from a religious point of view: Is there roo...

Is There Room for Paradox in CAM?

The field of CAM is fluid, ever changing and ever approaching the essence of modern western medicine using the evidence based approach (1). However, since some ancient practices continue without scientific evidence, there are still international perceptions that CAM is mired in folk remedies. This situation is most pertinent to TCM as expressed in an editorial about the debate in China by Mark ...

Ethics and the law: is there common ground on informed consent for disparities in hospital outcomes?

The association between procedure volume at institutions and outcomes of cancer surgeries has been widely published in the medical literature; discussed in the lay press; and, during the past 15 years, incorporated into quality improvement endeavors. In certain cases, institutional volume has become a proxy for quality. Despite the vast amount of retrospective data on this topic, physicians gen...

Roman-Dutch law in modern South African succession law