EDITOR: We have read with great interest the article by Carrero and colleagues [1] comparing lecture-based approach and case/problem-based learning discussion for teaching pre-anaesthetic assessment. The authors found, in two groups of first year anaesthesiology residents, that the effectiveness of the two educational methods differed little in terms of improving participants’ immediate knowled...

objective: the main purpose of this research is review of principles, concepts, problems and solutions of soil ethic. methods: in this research by descriptive method and delphi technique was used for identifying soil ethical concepts, soil ethical principles, problems and difficulties of soil ethics in iran and al around the world and suggestions for improvement of soil ethics in iran. the popu...

one of the most important applications of transgenic animals for medical purposes is to transplant their organs into human’s body, an issue which has caused a lot of ethical and scientific discussions. we can divide the ethical arguments to two comprehensive groups; the first group which is known as deontological critiques (related to the action itself regardless of any results pointing the hum...

The Bioethics Symposium titled “A scientist’s guide to approaching bioethics” was held at the joint annual meeting of the American Society of Animal Science, American Dairy Science Association, and the Canadian Society of Animal Science in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 12 to 16, 2009. The purpose of the symposium was to help animal scientists come to terms with the importance of grappling with...

The present report summarizes challenges in teaching medical ethics, defines its goals, describes theoretical frameworks for moral education, and reviews strategies for teaching medical ethics to serve as guidelines in developing medical ethics instruction. Medical teachers should clarify the instructional goals in cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral domains. The cognitive developmental and ...

Abstract Ethics plays a key role in the normative analysis of impacts technology. We know that computers general and processing data, use artificial intelligence, combination and/or intelligence with robotics are all associated ethically relevant implications for individuals, groups, society. In this article, we argue while technologies relevant, there is no need to create separate ‘ethics X’ o...