Soon after assuming office on July 21, 2003, the new Director-General of WHO, Jong-Wook Lee, announced plans to launch several global health initiatives: reenergising primary health care to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), launching the ambitious 3 by 5 initiative to expand access to antiretroviral drug treatment to 3 million HIV-positive people by 2005, and accelerating country...

There has been an upsurge of interest in moral decision making, which appears to have some distinctive properties. For example, some moral decisions are so strongly influenced by ideas about how sacred entities are to be treated, that they seem to be relatively insensitive to the costs and benefits entailed (e.g., “do not allow companies to pollute the earth for a fee, even if pollution credits...

In this paper we study the role of religiosity in political choices such as redistribution and individual liberties. To a standard model with consumption and effort, we add a third good: civil liberties with a cap established by law. More liberties, like divorce, abortion, gender parity, or gay marriage, may be considered good by the secular and detrimental by the religious individuals. With st...

Wayang wahyu grows and develops among Catholics as a proclamation of church teachings. Church teachings have moral values that need to be instilled in humans for character education. Dalang presents reflection life is full messages through the drama so delivery becomes familiar Javanese community. This study aims reveal contained Lakon Naaman Sang Senopati. research uses qualitative descriptive...

Research on moral psychology has frequently appealed to three, apparently consistent patterns: 1) Males are more likely to engage in transgressions involving harm than females; 2) Educated people are likely to be more thorough in their moral deliberations because they have better resources for rationally navigating and evaluating complex information; 3) Political affiliations and religious ideo...

In this study, the relationship between the viewing of television programs (programs toward God, the lessons of the Quran, the Fath) in the fields of Tehran citizens to moral values (Faith, virtue, purification and self-purification, prayer, reading culture, integrity, justice-oriented, good relations with others) have been investigated. The statistical population of this research over 15 years...

Recent advances in genomics and biotechnology have ushered in a new era in health development. Therapeutic cloning possesses enormous potential for revolutionizing medical and therapeutic techniques. Cloning technology, however, is perceived as having the potential for reproductive cloning, which raises serious ethical and moral concerns. It is important that the Islamic countries come to a con...

The recent deaths of two children from parental decisions to rely on faith healing rather than medical treatment raises fundamental questions about the extent and limits of religious liberty in a liberal democratic society. This essay seeks to identify and critically examine three central issues internal to the ethics of religious communities that engage in faith healing regarding children: (1)...

From the time of ancient civilizations the pedagogy has been considered not only as a method for 'transmission of knowledge' but also for building the moral behaviour of a society (Pradhan, 2002: 29). Since its inception the teaching or pedagogy was very much concerned for the transmission of the religious, philosophical and moral traditions from one generation to the next (Pradhan, ibid; Agarw...