Ethics are the moral values of human behavior and the principles which govern these values. The situation becomes challenging for a doctor when he assumes the role of researcher. The doctor-researcher has to serve both the roles and at times the zeal of an investigator has the potential to cloud the morality of the physician inside. It is very important to realize that exploiting the faith of p...

Medical ethics can be traced back to Hippocratic Oath in antiquity. Last decade witnessed improvements in science and technology which attracted attention to the ethical impacts of the innovations in medicine. The need to combine medical innovations with a preservation of human values and to cultivate ethical competencies required by professionalism conceived medical ethics education in various...

As part of a project on professionals' lived experience of ethics, this article explores the guiding concepts and values concerning ethics of mental health professionals in Cuba. The data, obtained through individual interviews and focus groups with 28 professionals, indicate that Cubans conceptualize applied ethics in terms of its central role in professional practice and its connection to the...

Mainstream economic thought and practice has resulted in widespread socioeconomic disparity and environmental devastation in all corners of the world, unmitigated by a multi-billion dollar development industry informed by these same economic models. To reverse this trend, the dominant forms of economic thought and practice must be reunited with ethics that are more caring of the human-nature ba...

Public health as an organized discipline began more than 100 years ago to improve the health, primarily, of populations rather than of individuals. Given its population-based focus, however, public health is forever facing dilemmas concerning the appropriate extent of its reach and when the work of public health professionals is infringing on individual liberties in ethically troublesome ways. ...

Background: The science of ethics is one of the most complete basic sciences that human beings urgently need, because the subject of knowledge of ethics is the human soul and its inner construction. The moral thinking of the thinkers of the Frankfurt School, as one of the ideas of the twentieth century, is based on the ethics of virtue; because the moral act is known as the act which is the res...