OBJECTIVE To report on part of a pilot study done to explore ethical responses to the new reproductive technologies in Sri Lanka. DESIGN Semi-structured interviews carried out with the members of three committees responsible for ethical review of medical research. Members were asked for their views on the ethical, social and legal implications of the new reproductive and genetic technologies....

Given the focus on health systems in the post-millennium development goal era and moving towards the sustainable development goals, there is a compelling need for a common framework for health policy and systems research ethics to guide researchers and facilitate review by research ethics committees. A consultation of global health policy and systems research and ethics experts was convened to ...

This paper explores mysticism as seen in Ernesto Cardenal’s El Evangelio en Solentiname (The Gospel Solentiname), aiming at both defining Cardenal a revolutionary and traditional mystic, shaped by Thomas Merton’s influence Latin American political circumstances. Mysticism is usually defined individual contemplation of God, immediate unmediated. Yet, the context 20th-century struggles for libera...

This article discusses the affinity between Henri Bergson’s complete mysticism in The Two Sources of Morality and Religion Kitaro Nishida’s energetistm An Inquiry into Good. Complete is action rather than contemplation, energetism ethics centred on an which very similar to one at stake completed mysticism. Moreover, both are experiences freedom. principle universe (Bergson’s élan; ri) same as s...

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