Soon after assuming office on July 21, 2003, the new Director-General of WHO, Jong-Wook Lee, announced plans to launch several global health initiatives: reenergising primary health care to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), launching the ambitious 3 by 5 initiative to expand access to antiretroviral drug treatment to 3 million HIV-positive people by 2005, and accelerating country...

There has been an upsurge of interest in moral decision making, which appears to have some distinctive properties. For example, some moral decisions are so strongly influenced by ideas about how sacred entities are to be treated, that they seem to be relatively insensitive to the costs and benefits entailed (e.g., “do not allow companies to pollute the earth for a fee, even if pollution credits...

In this study, the relationship between the viewing of television programs (programs toward God, the lessons of the Quran, the Fath) in the fields of Tehran citizens to moral values (Faith, virtue, purification and self-purification, prayer, reading culture, integrity, justice-oriented, good relations with others) have been investigated. The statistical population of this research over 15 years...

One mark of a great technology is its capacity to transform and be transformed. This we have witnessed in the relatively short lifespan of digital electronic networks, as societies have reacted to them and, in turn, shaped and reshaped them in multiple iterative cycles of mutual transformation. For scientists and engineers, the challenges are legion. In this document, however, we report on some...

We seek to explicate the precise role that one specific emotion, disgust, plays in generating political acrimony. We do so by identifying the link between the different dimensions along which moral judgments are made by those espousing different political ideologies and the different emotions which undergird these evaluations. These assessments reliably track along liberal and conservative dime...

This article is based on analysis of 4 couple's personal and public documents, in order to integrate personal choices, values and ideas with cultural representations and social attitudes. Moreover, being based on Italian sources from the nineteenth century, the study offers an historical insight on the Italian nation-building process and its political and social foundations. This study is based...

This is a commentary on Gilbert and colleagues’ (1) paper on morality and markets in the National Health Service (NHS). Morality and values are not ephemeral qualities and universal healthcare is not simply an aspiration; it has to be enshrined in law. The creation of the UK NHS in 1948 was underpinned by core legal duties which required a system of public funding and delivery to follow. The mo...