1 Introduction My concern in this chapter is the place of autonomy within liberalism, understood as a public morality.

The patentability of inventions related to Human Embryonic Stem Cells (HESC) is challenged by the morality provision of various nations’ regulations. 1 This Article discusses whether it is a matter of expediency to prohibit granting patents to HESC-related inventions based on moralitybased provisions, and it concludes that this is not appropriate. To claim this, the Article explores typical cas...

this is a commentary on gilbert and colleagues’ (1) paper on morality and markets in the national health service (nhs). morality and values are not ephemeral qualities and universal healthcare is not simply an aspiration; it has to be enshrined in law. the creation of the uk nhs in 1948 was underpinned by core legal duties which required a system of public funding and delivery to follow. the mo...

In an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in the companion assisted suicide cases of Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill, Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson describe themselves as “six moral and political philosophers who differ on many issues of public morality and policy.” Perhaps a distinction exists between ...

introduction: this research is planning to observe the influence of sense of social security on doctors’ social health in tehran. therefore, it seems that there is a meaningful relationship among doctors’ social health as a dependent variable, and sense of social security of doctors as the main independent variable. also, piety, life satisfaction, social morality and assessing by others as the ...

In the social sciences, computer-based modeling has become an increasingly important tool receiving widespread attention. However, the derivation of the quantitative relationships linking individual moral behavior and social morality levels, so as to provide a useful basis for social policy-making, remains a challenge in the scholarly literature today. A quantitative measurement of morality fro...