Bioethics: why philosophy is essential for progress.

شبیه‌سازی انسانی از منظر فقه و اخلاق

There was a time that human’s main philosophic question was such as“ what is Human? What is the purpose of Humans creation? Where would humans go?” but the question that humans face today and the question that calls the scholars respond is “How shall we live? The scholars around the world allow themselves to answer this question but each one from a different aspect, that...

Why Good Quality Care Needs Philosophy More Than Compassion; Comment on “Why and How Is Compassion Necessary to Provide Good Quality Healthcare?”

Although Marianna Fotaki’s Editorial is helpful and challenging by looking at both the professional and institutional requirements for reinstalling compassion in order to aim for good quality healthcare, the causes that hinder this development remain unexamined. In this commentary, 3 causes are discussed; the boundary between the moral and the political; Neoliberalism; and the underdevelopment ...

[What is personalistic bioethics? An analysys of its specificity and its theoretical foundations].

This article try to analyze why, although personalistic bioethics is expanding, there are so few theoretical studies on its characteristics and identity, and concludes it is due to a problem of lack of specificity. Personalistic bioethicists rely either on movements or institutions that have a weak theoretical foundation or in the realist philosophy taken in a very broad sense, which generates ...

An argument for the use of Aristotelian method in bioethics.

The main claim of this paper is that the method outlined and used in Aristotle's Ethics is an appropriate and credible one to use in bioethics. Here "appropriate" means that the method is capable of establishing claims and developing concepts in bioethics and "credible" that the method has some plausibility, it is not open to obvious and immediate objection. It begins by suggesting why this cla...

The Why, Who, What, How, and When of Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organizations: A Response to Recent Commentaries