Obtaining genuine informed consent from research participants in Background: developing countries can be difficult, partly due to poor knowledge about research process and research ethics. The situation is complicated when conducting genomic research on a disease considered familial and a reason for stigmatisation. We used a Rapid Ethical Appraisal tool to assess local factors that were Methods...

The above approaches certainly have their place but also have their limitations. The repeated invocation of archival material tends to create an impression that ethical edicts are merely of historical significance and are irrelevant today. Some of the historical texts on medical ethics are based on morality, at times even bordering on the spiritual or the religious. This could be a hindrance to...

When Muslims thought of establishing milk banks, religious reservations were raised. These reservations were based on the concept that women's milk creates 'milk kinship' believed to impede marriage in Islamic Law. This type of kinship is, however, a distinctive phenomenon of Arab tradition and relatively unknown in Western cultures. This article is a pioneer study which fathoms out the contemp...

This paper presents an innovative analytical model of Ethics Education, and uses it to analyze the major learning components found in England’s National framework for religious education (NFRE). The includes seven components: three simple ones – Education Society (ES), Personal Identity (PI), Otherness (EO) four interwoven (PI/EO, PI/ES, EO/ES PI/EO/ES). Our results from analysis NFRE show a st...

ABSTRACT Regnant public accounts of Jewish sexual ethics—both external and internal—fall short what they could accomplish. Using a Twitter thread on ethics which falls into some key errors as case study, I argue that ethicists are poised to address the thread's by offering sources for alternative moral frameworks. examine how thinking with this can help us clarify we mean scholarship more gener...

this paper sketches a framework for the separation of church and state and, with the framework in view, indicates why a government’s maintaining such separation poses challenges for balancing two major democratic ideals: preserving equality before the law and protecting liberty, including religious liberty. the challenge is particularly complex where healthcare is either provided or regulated b...

The psychological and socio-economic implications of digital technologies call for scholarship that engages questions about the nature of human consciousness, the construction of the self and the ethics of technical development. In this article, I outline a framework for an approach called contemplative media studies. This approach incorporates several different scholarly threads, namely: via c...

This essay considers how the JRE has engaged Catholic ethics in last 50 years and concerns of during this period exceptional change are reflected developed JRE. It discusses transformation by focusing on transitions: (i) from classical to historical consciousness; (ii) an essentialist concept human nature a dynamic moral subject; (iii) abstract contextual reason; (iv) discourse that ignored pol...

background and objectives: mental health is one of the most important components of healthy life. culture, particularly religious orientation, is one of the factors whose role in promoting mental health is increasingly being emphasized. the aim of this study was to investigate correlation between religious orientation and mental health among the staff of pars special economic energy zone (pseez...