background: in modern biomedicine, there is an increasing speed of development of new ideas and technologies and, consequently, increasing speed of new applicable knowledge. the rapid advances in medicine and biotechnology during recent decades, is accompanied with important discussions about new questions and dilemmas in the field of professional ethics. the increased recognition of ethical pr...

background: the increased recognition of ethical problems has contributed to the resurgence of ethics in relation to health care, and to the emergence of medical ethics as a new collaborative discipline in the world. the growing trends in biomedical technologies have been associated with increasing discussions about ethical aspects of the new knowledge in different societies. advances in geneti...

In this paper, I provide a brief sketch of the purposes that medical ethics serves and what makes for good medical ethics. Medical ethics can guide clinical practice and biomedical research, contribute to the education of clinicians, advance thinking in the field, and direct healthcare policy. Although these are distinct activities, they are alike in several critical respects. Good medical ethi...

There is a growing body of writing, for instance from the nursing profession, espousing an approach to ethics based on care. I suggest that this approach is hopelessly vague and that the vagueness is due to an inadequate analysis of the concept of care. An analysis of 'care' and related terms suggests that care is morally neutral. Caring is not good in itself, but only when it is for the right ...

Concern about ethics education in allied health professions has existed for decades. As educators evaluate the prevalence, effectiveness, and outcomes of existing ethics education programs in the allied health professions, the role of ethics education in the moral development of future health care providers remains an important concern.1 Clearly, ethics education in the allied health profession...

Despite increasing interests and urgent needs for quality end-of-life care, there is no exact definition of what is the interval referred to as end of life or what end-of-life care is. The purpose of this article is to report our examination of terms related to end-of-life care and define end-of-life care from nursing ethics perspectives. Current terms related to end-of-life care, such as termi...

abstract: introduction: abiding with ethical discipline in nursing leads to improving nursing services and promoting the patient’s health. due to the fact that patients are the most critical elements in health care organizations, this study was carried out with the aim of determine compliance with professional ethics and its relationship with associated demographic factors from the vantage poin...