Fundamental principles that characterize medicine’s social contract are primacy of the patient’s welfare, patient autonomy and social justice. Professions become de facto trustees of the public interest if those principles are maintained in the face of pressures from the state or the marketplace. Professions must protect not only vulnerable persons but also vulnerable social values. If professi...

This paper proposes a theory of optimal taxation using the tax reform approach and generalized social marginal welfare weights to capture social preferences for redistribution. A tax system is optimal if no budget neutral small reform can increase a weighted sum of (money metric) gains and losses across individuals. However, the weights used for aggregating gains and losses are not derived from...

this study was conducted to examine the­ relationship between organizational  justice and social capital in the telecommunication company of mianeh in 1391 that lasted one year. in this study, organizational justice as one of the major factors underlying the creation of social capital, has been studied in three dimensions (distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice), and...

Social workers in all practice areas are affected by interactions with the law and legal systems. Unfortunately, the profession has paid inadequate attention to education, scholarship, and practice in legal environments. This article introduces a new perspective for examining social work and the law called "therapeutic jurisprudence," which emanates from psychology/mental health law. Therapeuti...