In the Post-modern ages, the human being is doubly put into question : naturalisation of humanity (strong naturalism) is challenged by the hypothesis that man transcends the natural order; a self-based liberty is challenged by the ethics of responsibility, according which man is requested to be responsible for the Nature he is able to destroy. How can we deal with such a undetermined human nature and on the other hand, with a specific responsibility of mankind over Nature? This paper examines several theories of the environment reconsidered as a place of humanization that is to be shared. This allows an intercultural ethics of the world as vital for all, beyond any ethnocentric normativity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Junior doctors are exposed to multiple occupational risks. The aim of this study was to assess the risk factors and protective factors for mood and anxiety disorders among junior doctors.
Materials And Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study via an anonymous online questionnaire between October 2011 and June 2012.
This paper assesses the decision making patterns in medical ethics: the formalized pattern of decision science, the meditative pattern of an art of judgement and lastly the still-to-be-elaborated pattern of kairology or sense of the right time. The ethical decision is to be thought out in the conditions of medical action while resorting to the philosophical concepts that shed light on the issue. And it is precisely where medicine and philosophy of human action meet that the Greek notion of kairos, or "propitious moment", evokes the critical point where decision has to do with what is vital.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntra-dermal skin tests (IST) were applied with candidin (1:100) in 37 subjects and repeated 10 days later. The induration diameter of the second injection (read at 48 h) was greater (p less than 10(-8]. A correlation (r = 0.
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