Driven by the dominant Internet usage and the prospective profits from the game industry, especially from the thriving and robust free-to-play model of online games, there is a need to realize players’ behaviors. Playing online games is experienceoriented but rare studies further explore what reactions of initial (trial) experiences in game playing are and how they will further influence player...

Interest in understanding the meaning of conscience and conscientious objection in medicine has recently emerged in the academic literature. We would like to contribute to this debate in four ways: (1) to underscore and challenge the existing hierarchy of conscientious objection in health care; (2) to highlight the importance of considering the lay public when discussing the role of conscientio...

Abstract Background General Pharmaceutical Council standards (UK) state ‘pharmacy professionals have the right to practise in line with their religion, personal values or beliefs as long they …make sure that person-centred care is not compromised’, indicating a potential conflict for pharmacists who wish exercise conscientious objection (CO) abortion while maintaining duty of patients. Objectiv...

on the controversial book 'Sans Everything', the publication of which has sparked off a ministerial enquiry. Sans Everything is a frightening book. A collection of case histories of the elderly and mentally disturbed, it tells of inefficiency, unkindness, disrespect and neglect in geriatric wards. The cases are probably exceptional but, however rare the instances may be, it is essential that th...

Descartes' metaphysics lays the foundation for the special sciences, and the notion of consciousness ("conscientia") belongs to metaphysics rather than to psychology. I argue that as a metaphysical notion, "consciousness" refers to an epistemic version of moral conscience. As a consequence, the activity on which science is based turns out to be conscientious thought. The consciousness that make...

Letters Rules of conscience Betray ethics, betray trust The harm caused by the interrogation methods described by Pope and Gutheil goes far beyond the considerable damage, sometimes fatal, of methods commonly understood to be torture. 1 When psychologists or doctors design and help to inflict such methods, they engage in three betrayals. They betray the trust and human rights of those who are t...

The basic role of Jews is defined as creating a motivating contrast between the mass of the people who often get into trouble, and the subsequently arising leader (prophet) who calls for conscience in order to help the people to survive the trouble. The words of the Old Testament: "You will bring the light to other nations" are understood as a reflection of the fact that such a prophet is impor...

While consciousness has been examined extensively in its different aspects, like in philosophy, psychiatry, neurophysiology, neuroplasticity, etc., conscience though it is an equal important aspect of the human existence, which remains an unknown to a great degree as an almost transcendental aspect of the human mind. It has not been examined as thoroughly as consciousness and largely remains a ...

Résumé Abstract Contexte : La Cour Suprême du Canada (CSC) a décidé que le gouvernement fédéral a pour obligation d’éliminer les dispositions du Code criminel du Canada qui interdisent l’aide médicale à mourir (AMAM). La CSC a stipulé que les médecins individuels ne seront pas tenus de fournir l’AMAM s’ils ont une objection religieuse ou de conscience. Par conséquent, la réponse législative en ...

BACKGROUND Global Doctors for Choice-a transnational network of physician advocates for reproductive health and rights-began exploring the phenomenon of conscience-based refusal of reproductive healthcare as a result of increasing reports of harms worldwide. The present White Paper examines the prevalence and impact of such refusal and reviews policy efforts to balance individual conscience, au...