Ethical System in Allāmah Ṭabāṭabāī’s Thoughts on Anthropological Foundations

Ethical, psychosocial and anthropological

1027 December 2013, Vol. 103, No. 12 (Suppl 1) SAMJ Women of advanced maternal age (AMA, >34 years old) are at an increased risk of having an infant with a chromosome abnormality, but only a minority of older South African women have access to genetic counselling and testing for such abnormalities during pregnancy. These women face difficult choices relating to their risks and options. AMA in i...

Some Thoughts on the Intellectual Foundations of Accounting

SYNOPSIS: We report on a panel discussion at the 2001 CMU Accounting MiniConference under the title "Intellectual Foundations of Accounting." We provide a background and the motivation for the discussion and present the remarl<s by the four panelists. A number of perspectives are taken. Professor Sunder emphasizes dualities in accounting. Professor Demski stresses the endogeneity of accounting ...

The ethical foundations of bioethics.

Some thoughts on ethical guidelines for the neurologically-impaired elderly.

Philosophical and Ethical Foundations of Systems Thinking

Drawing on more than a decade of research on the social implications of systems thinking, as well as practical experience in integrative, community-based approaches to education, this paper is an inquiry into philosophical and ethical considerations growing out of recent developments in systems thinking. In his foundational work on general system theory, Ludwig von Bertalanffy distinguishes bet...

Laying ethical foundations for clinical research.

This section looks back to some ground-breaking contributions to public health, reproducing them in their original form and adding a commentary on their significance from a modern-day perspective. Jon Harkness, Susan Lederer and Daniel Wikler review the 1966 paper by Henry K. Beecher on ethics and clinical research. The original article is reproduced from The New England Journal of Medicine by ...