Background: History of medical ethics shows a great attention toward morality and ethical behavior in practice of Iranian physicians. Traditional medical ethics with its conventional methods of teaching have been included in medical education by Iranian physicians over centuries. However, modern academic methods of medical education have also been introduced in medical schools. We aim to summar...

Moral psychology once regarded ethics of care as a promising theory. However, there is evidence to suggest that nowadays moral psychology completely ignores ethics of care's various insights. Moreover, ethics of care's core concepts - compassion, dependence, and the importance of early relations to moral development- are no longer considered to be relevant to the development of new theories in ...

From its earliest issue back in 1995, responsibility has been a major theme in the Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics. Although the focus of attention and conceptions of responsibility vary considerably over the different articles, the prevalence of responsibility as a topic is remarkable. On a superficial reading, we could see it as the logical corollary of the importance of responsibil...

In this paper we contribute to "sociology in bioethics" and help clarify the range of ways sociological work can contribute to ethics scholarship. We do this using a case study of an innovative neurotechnology, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and its use to attempt to diagnose and communicate with severely brain-injured patients. We compare empirical data from interviews with relatives o...

this research is a new attempt in order to study the effect of evolution theory in the dimension of empirical ethics. in the contemporary area the evolutionary ethics is in the three branches: descriptive, prescriptive and meta-ethics. the descriptive evolutionary ethics tries to modify human’s ethical believes in the evolutionary aspect and achieves more share from two others part in this grou...

hospital ethics committees (hecs) help clinicians deal with the ethical challenges which have been raised during clinical practice. a comprehensive literature review was conducted to provide a historical background of the development of hecs internationally and describe their functions and practical challenges of their day to day work. this is the first part of a comprehensive literature review...

biomedical ethics is a branch of professional or practical ethics that examine the moral aspects of profession of medicine. every professional ethics due its issues and problems determine an especial theory and principles. in this article after referring to the three branches of ethics and describing important schools of ethical theory we have explained the six main approaches to biomedical eth...

fulfilling the related responsibilities has ethical aspects that must be addressed carefully. each role requires extensive training, which usually takes place in university institutions. ethics is applied in at least three academic areas, including: a) in education of students’ personal growth, b) in patient care, and c) in university comm:union: in population-based health care. given the impor...