Background:Patients generally have the right to be informed of their condition, but the debate over the issue of truth disclosure is still present. The attempt of this study is to review the approaches toward truth- telling to cancer patients in Iran. Materials and Methods: This study is a narrative review that included articles published in Iran on attitudes toward telling the truth to cancer ...

ABSTRACT∞ In 2016, the Sri Lanka Parliament passed Office on Missing Persons Act (OMP) ‘to search for and trace missing persons.’ At time, Sinhala Buddhist nationalist leaders strongly objected to it. this article, I read their resistance as a truth-seeking mechanism. Locating my analysis within global paradigm of ‘dealing with past’ through that assumes ‘truth is easier than justice,’ show OMP...

in this article the historical expression by martyr zaidebn e-ali on negation of forbidden majority has been described. also the majority and minority issue in the quran has been compared with current majority and minority in the political sciences. it seems that in the quran the majority which does not apply reason and does not know is the majority of opponents of prophets. thus, the majority ...

PURPOSE Increased use of prenatal technologies has increased the numbers of women and partners whose fetus is diagnosed with a severe impairment. Virtue ethics provides a useful perspective to consider truth telling in this context, specifically how couples and providers interpret the diagnosis and prognosis to create truth. Virtue ethics is person-centered rather than act-centered, with moral ...