in the recent years, advances in medical technologies for end stage cancer patients' care have affected the end-of-life decision-making in clinical practice and exposed oncologists to serious ethical dilemmas. but little is known about oncologists' viewpoints in our country regarding their ethical problems in this mention. we aimed to clarify the ethical dilemmas which iranian oncologists may f...

How do lay individuals think about the objectivity of their ethical beliefs? Do they regard them as factual and objective, or as more subjective and opinion-based, and what might predict such differences? In three experiments, we set out a methodology for assessing the perceived objectivity of ethical beliefs, and use it to document several novel findings. Experiment 1 showed that individuals t...

the writers of this article present a thematical study of children’s poetry in the seventies(1990s). to do this, they have first studied a collection of children’s poetry in the seventies and then they have classified the themes of this kind of poetry into six different categories including: naturalistic, entertaining and joyful, socio-political, religious, didactic and ethical themes. the writ...

Considering and respecting religious beliefs and values is vital for delivering integral health care. This study describes the religious principles and guidance provided by Catholic priests on sexuality and reproduction. The oral history method was used. Interviews were carried out between August 2007 and May 2008 and were analyzed in an inductive and interpretive manner to acquire a deep focus...

the purpose of this study is a reflection on the approaches to values education and its development at the education system of iran. in this article, we have used analytical and descriptive methods. research findings show that values education is inherent component of education and values have to be translated to students on basis of rational processes and free will. also, it seems that some of...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The prevalence of religious faith among doctors and its relationship with decision-making in end-of-life care is not well documented. The impact of ethnic differences on this is also poorly understood. This study compares ethnicity and religious faith in the medical and general UK populations, and reports on their associations with ethically controversial decisions taken whe...