New ethical challenges within environmental and sustainability education

Environmental Sustainability in Medicine: An Ethical Study

Grand Challenges in Nutrition and Environmental Sustainability

Nutrition has always straddled sectors, health and agriculture being the obvious two. The environment sector is a logical and important partner sector for nutrition, although not often recognized as such. Informally and incidentally, nutritionists have included environment sector issues in their research and practice. For example, food composition databases occasionally turn up nutrient data on...

Environmental Education and Environmental Management in Bangladesh and their Sustainability

Environmental education is in its early development in Bangladesh. Some traditions of environmental wisdom are quite ancient, but most of these are not recognised by the scientific community. The high level of illiteracy and school dropout create barriers to mass environmental education. Some universities offer courses in environment studies, but these are limited and the universities are under...

Overcoming Ethical Challenges of Bedside Medical Education.

Introduction Bedside teaching has long been a time-honoured component of medical education, and this was emphasised by Sir William Osler, father of modern medicine who once said, “To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study without patients is not to go to sea at all.” While utilitarian arguments have been used to justify such training, deontologi...

ISLAM AND CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL CHALLENGES