The Virtuous Health Workers

The epistemically virtuous clinician.

Today, modern Western medicine is facing a quality-of-care crisis that is undermining the patient-physician relationship. In this paper, a notion of the epistemically virtuous clinician is proposed in terms of both the reliabilist and responsibilist versions of virtue epistemology, in order to help address this crisis. To that end, a clinical case study from the literature is first reconstructe...

Independence and the Virtuous Community

Determining the relationship between burnout and general health among health workers working in Arak health center

Introduction:Work environments have harmful physical, social, and workplace psychological factors that can affect people's health and disrupt other areas of people's lives. Workplace human resources spend at least a third of their lives at work, and the pressures and stresses of work can jeopardize their health and, consequently, threaten organizational interests and goals. Decreasing the perfo...

Sustainability: Virtuous or Vulgar?

Progress in understanding and achieving sustainability requires addressing it as both a scientific and an ethical issue. If sustainability is defined as “meeting human needs in a socially just manner without depriving ecosystems of their health,” most of the words in its definition are normative or value laden. Depending on how critical normative terms such as “human needs” and “ecosystem healt...

The Virtuous Cycle of a Data Ecosystem

Modern science is creating data at an unprecedented rate, yet most of these data are being discarded. Raw scientific data, when they are published at all, are provided in a very limited form. Large, multidimensional datasets—rich with hidden information—are reduced to summary statistics filtered through limitations imposed by contemporary methods and technologies, and through the biased lens of...