Veterinarians increasingly face animal ethics issues, conflicts, and dilemmas, both in practice and in policy, such as the tension between clients' and animals' interests. Little has been done to measure the capacity of veterinarians to make ethical judgments to prevent and address these issues or to identify the effectiveness of strategies to build this capacity. The objectives of this study w...

Are you one of a growing number of medical educators uncomfortable using the term “noncognitive” to describe a cluster of behavioural characteristics, personal attributes and interpersonal skills used for admissions? We are. Do you believe that ethical reasoning, situational judgments, complex communication skills, critical thinking, and even empathy and respect for all people are learned skill...

As the year 2022 ends, we continue to face challenging issues and uncertainties about what should be right approach various ethical problems society face. In approaching these reflect on our existing guiding values but also discover new ones. We then try figure out how actions decisions could align with well-considered judgments until achieve some degree of reflective equilibrium.

Abstract There has been a longstanding controversy in research as to whether moral judgment is the result of an analytical or intuitive process. Today, researchers increasingly recognize that judgments can be both intuition and analysis, two paths lead different results. This raises question which processes leads better judgment. The article develops typology problems depending on their uncerta...

Objectives: Considering the significant role of physiotherapists in the process of rehabilitation, their ethical commitment is essential to successful interaction and care provision. However, investigations on the medical professional ethics ​​in Iran are limited. Generally, research in this regard is rare in Asia. Thus, such studies could improve the moral knowledge of the Iranian physiotherap...

As in the case with any other ethical system, the ethics of forensic psychiatry must be rationalized in their own terms. There is no ultimate justification. Any system of ethics must be created by the participants in the process and by society as a whole. That isn't easy in our field for several reasons. One of the most important is that there are so many participants involved, including psychi...

Increased understanding of how the well-being of the fetus is affected by prenatal behavior has focused attention on the ethical issues surrounding fetuses. In this article the sources of societal disapproval of drug-abusing, pregnant women are explored, and the relationship between our moral judgments and public policies is discussed. In examining the nature of a pregnant woman’s obligation to...

The paper provides description of the system of ethical review for biomedical research in Belarus, with special emphasis on its historical background, legal and regulatory framework, structure and functioning. It concludes that the situation with research ethics in Belarus corresponds to the tendency of bureaucratic approach to establishment of systems of ethical review for biomedical research,...