background and objectives: information ethics, according to islam, equals observing human rights and morals in dealing with information transmission and provision, which must be based on honesty and truthfulness. as islam highly values society and social issues, it believes that human behaviors and interactions are strongly interconnected in a society. committing to ethical issues regarding inf...

this research is a new attempt in order to study the effect of evolution theory in the dimension of empirical ethics. in the contemporary area the evolutionary ethics is in the three branches: descriptive, prescriptive and meta-ethics. the descriptive evolutionary ethics tries to modify human’s ethical believes in the evolutionary aspect and achieves more share from two others part in this grou...

hospital ethics committees (hecs) help clinicians deal with the ethical challenges which have been raised during clinical practice. a comprehensive literature review was conducted to provide a historical background of the development of hecs internationally and describe their functions and practical challenges of their day to day work. this is the first part of a comprehensive literature review...

BACKGROUND Ethics is a discipline, which primarily deals with what is moral and immoral behavior. Public Health Ethics is translation of ethical theories and concepts into practice to address complex multidimensional public health problems. The primary purpose of this paper was to conduct a narrative literature review-addressing role of ethics in developing curriculum in programs and schools of...

before the cervical cancer was discovered (median interval, 14 months), but no cervical smear had been obtained. Of particular interest is the fact that six of the 19 patients are in their seventh decade or older, with a median age of 80 years (range, 79–88 years). The Victorian Department of Human Services reports that the cervical-smear participation rate for eligible women in the Gippsland r...

the survey of ethical among nursing students in urmia university of medical science     mohammadpour y [1] *, kazemi n [2] , abbasi m [3] , shams e [4]     received: 28 apr , 2013 accepted: 2 jul , 2013    abstract  background & aims : e thics in nursing care is very important and professional competence. in nursing, ethics means that the nursing care is based on the principles of bioethics. ho...