Consider the following three cases: A paediatrician is called to the delivery room as a woman is about to give birth to a premature baby at 24 weeks. The mother and father request that the baby not be resuscitated. The baby weighs 760 grams and has an Apgar score of 6 at 1 min. The paediatrician ignores the parents’ requests for comfort care and intubates the baby. A full-term baby with Trisomy...

On 2 July 2015, the killing of a lion nicknamed "Cecil" prompted the largest global reaction in the history of wildlife conservation. In response to this, it is propitious to consider the ways in which this moment can be developed into a financial movement to transform the conservation of species such as the lion that hold cultural significance and sentiment but whose numbers in the wild are dw...

From a liberationist, feminist, and Catholic point of view, this article attempts to understand the decision of abortion. People are constantly testing their principles and values against the question of abortion. Advances in technology, the rise of communitarianism and the rejection of individualism, and the commodification of children are factors in the way in which the abortion debate is bei...

Some bioethicists argue that conscientious objectors in health care should have to justify themselves, just as objectors in the military do. They should have to provide reasons that explain why they should be exempt from offering the services that they find offensive. There are two versions of this view in the literature, each giving different standards of justification. We show these views are...

THE SUPEREGO first came to my attention when I did not know what to call it. The occasion was a relatively harmless instance: an Army officer and his wife, who were by virtue of their military status dispensed from Friday abstinence, told me how it had taken them almost a year to be able to eat meat on Friday without feeling somewhat guilty about this —in spite of their dispensation. But anothe...

The widespread emergence of innumerable technologies within health care has complicated the choices facing caregivers and their patients. The escalation of knowledge and technical innovation has been accompanied by an erosion of moral and ethical consensus among health providers that is reflected in the abandonment of the Hippocratic Oath as the immutable bedrock of medical ethics. Ethical conf...

the paper has been performed to review library administrators' strategic planning role to improve the library staff of medical sciences university of iran. the study is survey-descriptive. the statistical population consists of 50 library administrators working in iran medical sciences university, but 44 subjects responded to the questionnaire used to gather data. the reliability (91.7%) w...