When the term “bioethics” was coined, both at its historical origin (in the works of the Lutheran pastor Jahr in 1926–27) and in its independent new birth (in the work of the American oncologist Potter in 1970), its meaning was that of a philosophical outlook in which medicine, biology, ecology and human values were brought to an integration from which the ethical imperative derived to respect ...

Society bestows professional privilege on physicians. At the same time, it expects physicians to strive constantly to improve their ethics and quality in medical expertise. In every nation, some level of government is responsible for certifying or licensing physicians and imposes strict management, including revoking licenses from inappropriate physicians or providing severe sanctions for misco...

Congratulations are in order for the rebirth of our society’s official journal as “Obstetrics & Gynecology Science.” Moreover, I am greatly honored and privileged to have been granted an opportunity through the naming contest to make a small contribution in this historical transition. When a child is born, the very first thing the parents do is name the child. Just as in placing a cornerstone i...

My original paper suggested that an ethics ofcare which failed to specify how, and about what, to care would be devoid of normative and descriptive content. Bradshaw's approach provides such a specification and is, therefore, not devoid ofsuch content. However, as all ethical approaches suggest something about the 'what' and 'how' of care, they are all 'ethics of care' in this broader sense. Th...

Gondang Batak Toba is one of the popular traditions Bataks that bestows high artistic and cultural values for music because it has religious meaning important customary life. This paper aims to find out gondang implemented in traditional research used a qualitative approach with phenomenological methods. Field data was ob- obtained through interviews key informants from an city on Samosir Islan...