Moral imperatives for academic medicine

Narratives, Imperatives and Moral Reasoning

This paper provides a theoretical framework to explain recent empirical findings on the malleability of morality, and suggest new testable implications. Building on a basic model with image concerns, we introduce the concept of narratives that allow individuals to maintain a positive image when in fact acting in a morally questionable way. We show how narratives, however feeble, inhibit moral b...

Bladder cancer: imperatives for personalized medicine.

Although the age-adjusted incidence of urothelial carcinoma has stabilized or declined in developed nations as a result of tobacco and environmental regulations, the rising numbers of the elderly and the shift in the tobacco epidemic to underdeveloped and rapidly industrializing nations with less stringent environmental controls augur a major growth in the worldwide burden of this disease. Curr...

Anti-aging medicine: fallacies, realities, imperatives.

LAST year’s double special sections of the Journal on ‘‘Anti-Aging Medicine’’ featured several contributions from the distinguished experimentalist Leonard Hayflick. Among these was ‘‘‘Anti-Aging’ is an Oxymoron,’’(1) which ends with a question that clearly lays out the importance of the subject of these issues: since there is an ‘‘almost universal belief by geriatricians that the greatest risk...

TLRP: academic challenges for moral purposes

ترجمه فصولی از کتاب medicine for nurses

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