OBJECTIVE To understand the meanings attributed by Brazilian bioethicists to the principles of universality and integrality in the Brazilian public health system. METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES A qualitative and exploratory research was carried out with 20 Bioethics professors in the field of public health from July 2007 to July 2008. Participants were directors and former directors of the Brazili...

Modern secular bioethics has focused on developing a set of universal principles to guide clinical decision making. However, this ignores the important role of religion in resolving bioethical questions. It is imperative that health-care providers understand these belief systems in order to traverse value conflicts and provide the highest quality care to a diverse population. This paper focuses...

Trolley problems have been used in the development of moral theory and the psychological study of moral judgments and behavior. Most of this research has focused on people from the West, with implicit assumptions that moral intuitions should generalize and that moral psychology is universal. However, cultural differences may be associated with differences in moral judgments and behavior. We ope...

MUTUAL ADVANTAGE CONTRACTARIANS TRY to show that moral principles are best understood as rational limitations on our choices. These limitations are derived from non-moral principles of rational choice. To act rationally would thus be to act morally and vice versa. Consequently, there would be no conflict between individual utility maximisation and morality. The main advantage of this project is...

In one of a series of articles on philosophical medical ethics, Gillon rebuts the argument that moral claims are essentially different from scientific claims because scientific claims are objective and confirmable or refutable, while moral claims are subjective, unconfirmable, irrefutable, and their differences incapable of resolution. He contends that there is widespread agreement about many ...

In the wake of organizational scandals associated with corporate America servant as well transformational leadership are seen approaches capable engendering a type morality—on part leaders and followers—based on shared values, universal moral principles an orientation towards pro-social behavior serving common good. However, recent critiques have highlighted tendency in relevant literature to o...