nowadays, medical tourism reports impressive growth in terms of number of persons, income and number of countries involved in cross-border flows. so this study was undertaken to clarify entrepreneurship opportunities and bio-ethics boundaries in medical tourism. for tourism entrepreneurs, these outgoing flows related to medical procedures and tourism become an opportunity that cannot be ignored...

Many philosophers have become familiar with Leopold’s land ethic through the writings of J. Baird Callicott, who claims that Leopold bases his land ethic on a “protosociobiological” argument that Darwin gives in the Descent of Man. On this view, which has become the canonical interpretation, Leopold’s land ethic is based on extending our moral sentiments to ecosystems. I argue that the evidence...

This study aimed at assessing whether and to what extent moral judgment and behaviour were: 1. situation-dependent; 2. selectively dependent on cognitive and affective components; 3. influenced by gender and age; 4. reciprocally congruent. In order to achieve these aims, four different types of moral dilemmas were construed and five types of thinking were presented for each of them – representi...

BACKGROUND The objective was to measure the sensitivity of a group of physicians regarding the ethics-related situations, which they faced during patient care and treatment. METHODS All of 306 physicians who joined the Turkish Army for compulsory military service in December 2008 were included in the study. A "Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire", formed by Kim Lutzen, was applied to all of them....

This study was conducted to determine the current state, and future directions, of research on nursing ethics for students in Korea. The analyzed evaluated original articles that explore issues Korean using integrative literature review method proposed by Whittermore Knafl. Five databases were searched with queries combined terms ‘nursing’, ‘student’, ‘ethic’, ‘moral’. From 246 published betwee...

The politics of life and death is explored from the perspective of Doctors Without Borders (Médecins sans frontières [MSF]), an activist nongovernmental organization explicitly founded to respond to health crises on a global scale. Following the work of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, I underline key intersections between MSF’s operations that express concern for human life in the midst of...

while kant presupposes the existence of science and ethic, he studies their boundaries and limits as well. for doing this, he applies two terms and expressions, i.e., “reason” and “understanding”. in this paper, we take a look at the definitions of those two concepts in kant’s terminology within the approach that discriminates their differences. at first, the placement of these two faculties in...

ethics has become the bridge between morals, values, patient needs and effective treatment. medical ethics has a 2500 year history in medical education, but  it has only been in the last 30 years that it has come to terms of formal inclusion in medical curricula(1) .the purpose of contemporary dental education is that graduates will be competent in clinic and patient care with high level of  kn...