recent disclosures of failures of care in the national health service (nhs) in england have led to debates about compassion deficits disallowing health professionals to provide high quality responsive care. while the link between high quality care and compassion is often taken for granted, it is less obvious how compassion – often originating in the individual’s emotional response – can become ...

we aimed to verify the issue of the ethics audit and its use in the system of accreditation of hospitals. it presents the results of a survey conducted among hospital managers from romania.our article highlights the results of the second part of a research carried out in 2012 on the pertinence and the structure of the ethics audit integrated within the accreditation process of hospitals, accord...

to understand the traditional description of medicine as a practice of healing, it is necessary to examine its relationships with both science and ethics. the “scientific” component of medicine includes an acknowledgment of the influence of social, cultural and environmental factors on the functioning of the organism. the “ethical” component is often presented as merely supplementary but actual...

feminist ethics is a new and important branch of western ethics. this article is an attempt to examine one of the essential issues in this area; i. e. the necessities of feminist ethics. the paper has taken it for granted that: 1. it is necessary to criticize feminist ethics, 2.without considering some points in this criticism, one cannot take a fair position towards or against it. having offer...

nursing is a universal health care necessity. nursing profession, similar to the other medical professions, is responsible to maintain public health promotion, prevent diseases, and also care and rehabilitate client, family and the soci¬ety. the inher-ent nature of nursing is respect for moral values and human rights. however, clinical ethical dilem¬mas occur for nurses at all levels, not alway...

principlism, in general and four principles approach in particular is largely discussed in current medical ethics. accord­ing to principlism, the ethical relationship between physician and patient has to be categorized based on some princi­ples, the prin­ciples which are general, action-guiding and could help both the patient and the physician to arrange their ethical behav­ior. four principles...

Ethics has become an important part in the interaction among humans being. This paper specifically discusses applied ethics as one type of ethics. There are three applied ethics that will be reviewed in this paper, i.e. computer ethics, information ethics, and cyber ethics. There are two aspects of the three applied ethics that were reviewed, i.e. their definition and the issues associated with...