Background and Objectives : The objective of this study was to determine and compare the general levels of awareness of patient’s rights among the patients and nurses in training hospitals in Qom province. Methods: In a descriptive analytical study, 150 nurses and 200 hospitalized patients were asked about patient’s rights in all public hospitals in Qom. Data were collected using qu...

Book details S. Jasanoff (ed.), Reframing Rights: Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2011: 310 pages, ISBN: 978-0-262-51627-3 Shelia Jasanoff ’s new edited volume on bioconstitutionalism provides an innovative and conceptually coherent analysis of the dynamic relationship between new technologies and constitutional frameworks. It is a most welcome introduction to ...

This paper addresses a significant aspect of digital rights management (DRM): the unique challenges of building a working DRM infrastructure for networked digital libraries or repositories. We outline how, based on our experience with building, populating and operating a digital library, many of the existing problems for the current generation of DRM technology are magnified in a distributed, n...

With the proliferation of robotics in industry, education and entertainment, artificial intelligent robots challenge the way we think about relationships between humans and machines. This study examines critical issues in artificial life and rights, which are an emergent but, as yet, little understood area of educational inquiry through one of the most popular video game, The Sims. Since The Si...

This paper uses hypothetical contractarianism to consider the value of children’s rights laws as a means of protecting children. Laws protecting children from their parents have the unintended but predictable consequence of making child-rearing less desirable for some parents and thereby reducing the number of children born. Such laws therefore produce a trade-off between the expected wellbeing...