AFFILIATIONS: From the Division of General Internal Medicine (Dr Firoz), The University of British Columbia; and Department of Medicine, Alpert Medical School (Drs Miller and Bourjeily), Brown University. FINANCIAL/NONFINANCIAL DISCLOSURES: None declared. CORRESPONDENCE TO: Ghada Bourjeily, MD, 146 W River St, Ste 11C, Providence, RI 02904; e-mail: [email protected] Copyright 2016 Ameri...

the asian financial crisis in 1997 has awakened the regulators and corporates on the importance of corporate governance. according to agency theory, a good corporate governance system is necessary for more transparent information disclosure about the corporation. accordingly, the objective of this study is evaluating the level of disclosure in banks and examine the relationship between some fea...

This article examines the changing role of ‘confessional technologies’ (Foucault 1990) over history HIV pandemic, beginning when US public health departments first rolled out testing campaigns and continuing in present day through expansion diagnostic practices to support development implementation pharmaceutical technologies for prevention. Across this decades-long history, have been shaped by...

(AUB) was established in the last decade of the 19th century and is the only one of three current medical programmes in Lebanon to adopt Ameri-can curricular standards and English as a language of instruction. A formal course in medical ethics was introduced in 1994, which instructs students in the third year on issues such as truth-telling to patients, within the context of the " paternalism v...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the evaluation of the quality of voluntary disclosure, given that the factors used in internal research due to having an external source and focusing on the number of disclosures may not be an appropriate criterion for measuring the quality of information disclosure, so, it is necessary to provide new influencing factors on the e...

Vagueness is one of the most persistent and challenging topics in the intersection of philosophy and logic. At least five other noteworthy books on vagueness have been written by philosophers since 1991 [2, 6, 11, 12, 15]. A (necessarily incomplete) bibliography that has been compiled for the Arché project Vagueness: its Nature and Logic (2004-2006) of the University of St Andrews lists more th...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the experiences and preferences of terminally ill cancer patients regarding truth telling in the communication of poor prognoses. METHOD We recorded and transcribed interviews with 45 patients who knew their cancer was terminal, and analyzed their responses hermeneutically. RESULTS Patients identified three different modes of truth: (1) the abs...