Like theology and ethics generally, bioethics has increasingly developed a global consciousness. Controversies over AIDS research and access to affordable AIDS treatment have generated new awareness about the importance of international collaboration as well as the difficulty of achieving moral consensus across economic, political, and cultural divides. Advances in scientific and medical knowle...

The aim of the Journal of Medical Ethics is to provide a forum for the reasoned discussion of moral issues arising from the provision of medical care. It will hold no brief for one particular professional, political, or religious viewpoint. The articles it publishes will identify current problems, present factual information, and clarify different moral assumptions. To fulfil these aims the Edi...

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This article attempts to frame the theology and teaching of Ann Loades within categories practical Christian education. After outlining author’s academic relationship with Loades, author analyses meaning phrase ‘practical theology’ some aspects debate surrounding term. He contends that Loades’s wide-ranging reflections on practices prayer spirituality, worship liturgy, ethics belonging may be r...

studies on the doctor-patient encounter, Robert Veatch defends the role that philosophy and theology have had in bioethical discourse and decision-making since the 1960s. Intermediate positions are developed by Alexander Capron ("socially situated, interdisciplinary medical ethics that seeks to protect professional judgement") and by Stephen Latham and Linda Emanuel, who emphasize that the very...

A prominent Indian physicist is accused of plagiarizing the research of a Stanford University professor. The dean of an American law school is dismissed over charges of plagiarism. An influential education minister in South Korea resigns after a citizens’ group discovers the official had plagiarized. A Boston College theology professor plagiarizes parts of his book on ethics. Cases like these d...

sophia perennis, including the principles of metaphysics, anthropology, ethics and theology, has been placed in the hearth of all traditions. all ways to attain the pure essence of god begins from knowing one`s own self as is understood in the hadith: “one who comes to know himself will know his lord”. on this issue there may be found two important disagreements between schuon, and nasr as his ...

This paper initially addresses the possibility that expanding human-robot interaction (HRI) – particularly HRI involving humanoid service robots – may increasingly encourage de facto assignment of some measures of moral status to such artifacts. Finding reasons to believe that emergence of a social phenomenon of this kind is plausible, it then examines such assignment from the perspective of a ...

The question – »when does human life begin?« – is without doubt an important one, and the answer to it has different yet equally profound consequences in diverse fields such as medicine, theology, ethics, and anthropology. But before one can begin to tackle the topic and its ramifications, one must first be certain that that one is not conflating a conception about »the beginning of human life«...