Multicultural issues in maternal–fetal medicine

... consequences. From the point of view of 5 5Multicultural issues in maternal–fetal medicine reproductive health care and maternal–fetal medicine, this belief might result in the family’s unwillingness to allow ... medical issue 4 7Multicultural issues in maternal–fetal medicine ignores the wider social–cultural aspects involved in its spread and treatment in the deve...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... StrongIGENERICISSUESINPREGNANCY373 Multicultural issues in maternal–fetal medicine 39Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten4 HIV in pregnancy: ethical issues in screening andtherapeutic research 61Paquita de Zulueta5 Genetic screening: ... MMMMMMMMThis page intentionally left blank Ethical issues inmaternal–fetal medicineThis book brings together an unusually broad range of experts from...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... 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 evidence- base...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... overseen by Melvin Worth. Appointed by the Institute of Medicine, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional ... Personalized Medicine in Oncology,” in Washington, DC, on June 8 and 9, 2009. At this workshop experts gave presentations and commentary on the following areas: Introduction 2 P...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... overseen by Melvin Worth. Appointed by the Institute of Medicine, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional ... Personalized Medicine in Oncology,” in Washington, DC, on June 8 and 9, 2009. At this workshop experts gave presentations and commentary on the following areas: Introduction 2 P...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20

... that would support a presumption in favor of continuing the development of germline genetic engineering. That is, we have argued that germline genetic engineering is not intrinsically morally objectionable. ... distinctions in mind we can raise some additional ethics issues regarding gene therapy from a social point of view. Is there anything intrinsically morally objectionable about ge...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2014, 22:10

... challenge string [14–16]. 12.5 Mobile IP Mobile IP was developed in response to the increasing use of mobile computers in order to enable computers to maintain Internet connection during their movement ... attacker inserts counterfeit objects such as inserting a record in a file. † Interception. This is an attack on the confidentiality of the network such as wiretapping or eavesdropping t...

Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2013, 21:20

... cloning, and calls for fully informing the public and stimulating debate. 157Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning Conclusion Cloning is only one example, among the many discussed in ... pertinent. Indeed if dignity has to be deWned in any essential manner, as it must be if enshrined in international declarations, it is the unique quality of all human beings, also recog...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicapped neonates Neil McIntosh Department of Child Life and Health, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Introduction Life-sustaining ... the principle of double eVect, whereby giving a medicine with the primary intent to hasten death is illicit but giving a medicine to relieve suVering, which may have the side eVect o...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... disappointing that at the time of writing, President Mbeki of South Africa appears to be reversing this positive trend. Rather than endorsing a programme of national funding for perinatal zidovudine ... shared decision-making. Patients should control the amount and timing of information. I submit that in the case of anonymized testing, and in the case of ‘routine’ voluntary named testing,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20