OBJECTIVE To assess the state of national health research systems of countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region. DESIGN A questionnaire-based survey METHODS: Structured questionnaires were used to solicit health research systems' relevant information from key informants in each country. SETTING Forty-six Member States of the WHO African Region. PARTICIPANTS Key inform...

This article reports on a practice-based research project that examined the various orientations of practice to ethical deliberation. The aim was produce film captured debate between two creative practitioners as they walked through their local streets. would be catalyst for staff and students at an arts institution think about own practices. approach taken based Aristotelian notions phronesis ...

Educational research is repeatedly confronted with the question of its relevance. Current interpretations relevance narrowly focus on outcomes and impact research. In this essay, we propose an alternative, ontological conceptualization relevance, arguing that more at stake than impact. We characterize ontology education learning in terms people’s meaningful movements always changing world educa...

background: dealing with ethical considerations is a major component of health technology assessment (hta) definitions. objectives: present study aimed to explore and describe the manner of ethical analyses in hta reports and the effects it had on hta-related decision making around the world.   methods: by considering the contextual milieu of reports and searching for ethical themes and subject...

I reconstruct here the implicit rationale of Smith’s ethical system, which unites in a single and consistent theory the most valuable features of both ancient virtue ethics and modern deontology. I propose that Smith could do this because of his approach to what I call “sympathetic impartiality”, and the pretension of universality that arises from it. In Smith’s theory, sentiments are moralized...

George Eliot, well-known as one of greatest realists in the 19th century, weaves multiple narratives her representative work Middlemarch, presenting vividly realistic picture society between 1829 and 1832. The narrative clue love affair Dorothea, Casaubon Will Ladislaw permeates whole story, which attracts attention numerous scholars with fruitful, inspirational studies. However, few numbers de...

The linkage between ethical judgment and ethical behavioral intention was investigated. The Multidimensional Ethics Scale (MES) was used to measure ethical judgment ratings of hypothetical behaviors in retail, sales, and automobile repair scenarios. Confirmatory factor analysis on a sample of 300 undergraduate business students showed that a model with three latent variables representing three ...

Prior’s arguments for and against seeing ‘ought’ as a copula and his considerations about normative negation are applied to the case of responsibility judgments. My thesis will be that responsibility judgments, even though often expressed by using the verb ‘to be’, are in fact normative judgments. This is shown by analyzing their negation, which parallels the behavior of ought negation.