background: in modern biomedicine, there is an increasing speed of development of new ideas and technologies and, consequently, increasing speed of new applicable knowledge. the rapid advances in medicine and biotechnology during recent decades, is accompanied with important discussions about new questions and dilemmas in the field of professional ethics. the increased recognition of ethical pr...

The objective of honeypot database (context honeypot) is to identify a potential privacy violator. A suspected user’s interaction with the database is analyzed to determine suspicion. Such a system must satisfy certain characteristics. One of the such characteristics is obliviousness. The success of such a system depends on its remaining oblivious to the suspected user. In this demo paper, we d...

Rights have been long understood, first and foremost, as protection of the private from the public, the individual from the State. True, we also recognize positive rights (such as socioeconomic rights) and the government’s duty to protect citizens from violations of rights by other actors besides the State. However, when violations of privacy are discussed, the first violator that typically com...

abstract background: family planning has been defined in the framework of mothers and children plan as one of primary healthcare (phc) details. besides quantity, the quality of services, particularly in terms of ethics, such as observing individuals’ privacy, is of great importance in offering family planning services. objective: a preliminary study to gather information about the degree of med...

kant’s ethical theory is one the most important theories in philosophy of ethics, which has always attracted the attention of the commentators and critics. although it has many positive points, there are some objections to this theory just as to any other human theory. in this article, it is attempted to point out the critiques that seem to have been leveled against kant’s ethics. some of these...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa pharmacists as one of health-care providers face ethical issues in terms of pharmaceutical care, relationship with patients and cooperation with the health-care team. other than pharmacy, there are pharmaceutical companies in various fields of manufacturing, importing or distributing that have their own ethical issues. therefore, pharmacy practice i...

in the recent years, advances in medical technologies for end stage cancer patients' care have affected the end-of-life decision-making in clinical practice and exposed oncologists to serious ethical dilemmas. but little is known about oncologists' viewpoints in our country regarding their ethical problems in this mention. we aimed to clarify the ethical dilemmas which iranian oncologists may f...