It is hypothesised and argued that "the four principles of medical ethics" can explain and justify, alone or in combination, all the substantive and universalisable claims of medical ethics and probably of ethics more generally. A request is renewed for falsification of this hypothesis showing reason to reject any one of the principles or to require any additional principle(s) that can't be exp...

What kinds of acts are right in oncology nursing practice? This basic yet complex question is commonly asked by nurses in oncology and other specialties to determine what they should do in a specific case or how the entire profession should act regarding interactions with patients, families, and colleagues. General ethical principles often are used as guides for right action. The first such con...

This paper introduces four principles for the establishment of a technology-enhanced learning environment with and for children with autism spectrum disorders and presents results on how the principles were actualized in relation to children’s actions in the environment. The study was conducted as action research premised on the children’s active roles as participants and developers, the empowe...

Viator, the Wandering Network approach, defines a new type of communications architecture chracterized by: • flexible, multi-modal specialization of network nodes as virtual subnetworks; • mobility and virtualization of the net functions in hardware und software; • self-organizing multi-feedback topology-on-demand. Network elemens can contain several exchangeable modules capable of executing di...