Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicapped neonates

... 21.1. Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicapped neonates – in the presence of uncertainty. light of the best scientiWc knowledge available. The future for the infant ... withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatments from handicapped neonates revolve around good discussion within the clinical team and with the parents. All sh...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... in the context of ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. He writes, Life-sustaining treatment implies that treatment is being given in order to maintain or create the best possible ... donor insemination are outlined. Elina Hemminki (Chapter 12), a Finnish epidemiologist and health tech- nology assessment expert, approaches antenatal screening from an e...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... which 15 3Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning 9 Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning Franc¸oise ShenWeld Centre for Medical Ethics, UCL Medical School, London, UK Introduction Although ... replaced in a uterus. Finally, the report concludes with a clear condemnation of reproductive cloning, and calls for fully informing the public and stimulating deba...

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... Unsurprisingly, uptake in these countries is high (as well as in Sweden and the US). In the UK it is much lower but rising (de Cock and 71HIV in pregnancy 4 HIV in pregnancy: ethical issues in screening ... contravene existing guide- lines – in particular, the Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association, 1996) and the international ethical guidelines for biomedical...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... the administration of infertility drugs, if ultrasound monitoring indicated maturation of multiple follicle cells (Manier, 1998: p. 1). At that point, clinicians might have declined to administer ... mismanaged from a medical point of view cannot be conWrmed. Family physicians and generalist obstetrician-gynaecologists who lack spe- cialized training in infertility treatment can and do...

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... coal miners in terms of the “frame” of tons of coal mined, the health of miners appears to be improving. That is, coal-mine deaths, per ton of coal mined, have been decreasing since 1950 in the ... miners in terms of the “frame” of numbers of coal miners, the health of miners appears to be diminishing. That is, coal mine deaths, per thousand coal-mine employees in the US, have been...

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... discovery in the GEOFFREY HUNT 11 Noddings’ work might be expected to have something important to say for nursing ethics. She distinguishes between natural caring and ethical caring and maintains that ... questions. But Noddings recognised that prior conditions must be met for ethical caring. Hanford speaks of nursing having to practise in a ‘chronically ethically diminished state’. N...

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