Feminist care ethics has become a prominent ethical theory that influenced theoretical and practical discussions in variety of disciplines institutions on global scale. However, it been criticized by transnational feminist scholars for operating with Western-centric assumptions registers, especially universalizing as is practiced the Global North. It also prioritizing gender over other categori...

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder whose therapeutic interventions usually produce unsatisfactory results. This disorder is characterized by high rates of relapse, tendency to chronicity, high morbidity and mortality1. Low motivation is a central issue that hinders AN treatment1. Interpersonal relationships seem to be crucial in AN and may play a role in this sense as well. We propose ...

In this paper, Dr. Cherny beautifully reviews how to balance the patient's right to be adequately informed about his or her disease with the powerful cultural beliefs held in many parts of the world. This is certainly one of the most difficult tasks in the patient-oncologist relationship. The disclosure of prognostic information to terminally ill patients has emerged within the last 15 years as...