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Cambridge.University.Press.Ethical.Issues.in.Maternal-Fetal.Medicine.Mar.2002.pdf

Cambridge.University.Press.Ethical.Issues.in.Maternal-Fetal.Medicine.Mar.2002.pdf

... 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 ... now face a growing number of controversial issues involving human reproduction. To illustrate the variety of issues, consider the following three scenarios. In the Wrst case, involving a pregnant ... according to the view in question, infants lack a right to life. However, this is at odds with our moral intuitions, according to which infants have moral interests that deserve protection, including...

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Báo cáo y học: "Enhanced surveillance for childhood hepatitis B virus infection in Canada, 1999-2003"

Báo cáo y học: "Enhanced surveillance for childhood hepatitis B virus infection in Canada, 1999-2003"

... in British Columbia, Canada, which demonstrates a significant decrease in the incidence of acute HBV infection in people aged 15 to 24 years [13]. A decrease in the incidence, observed in ... hepatitis occurring in childhood, in Canada. Our analyses of the EHSSS data collected during 1999-2003, suggest that these factors contribute to a reduced incidence of HBV infections in Canadian-born ... Int. J. Med. Sci. 2005 2 146 coast spanning Western Canada, the Prairies, Central Canada, and the Atlantic region, involving English- speaking, French-speaking and other diverse...

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Knowledge based expert system to minimise environmental pollution in Malaysian construction sites

Knowledge based expert system to minimise environmental pollution in Malaysian construction sites

... improved by: (i) Refining, expanding, and reinforcing its knowledge base using new findings as reported in literature or new experience from domain expertise; (ii) Adding further functional ... educational background in civil engineering/ water resources. Dr. Lariyah’s major field in hydrology / urban drainage. Dr. Lariyah has earned her PhD in civil engineering from Kyoto University, ... Professor in civil engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, kajang, Selangor, Malaysia. His educational background in civil engineering/ water resources. Prof. Mohame d Nor’s major field in hydrology/...

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Security Issues in Wireless Systems

Security Issues in Wireless Systems

... was developed in response to the increasing use of mobile computers in order to enable computers to maintain Internet connection during their movement from one Internet access point to another. ... encrypted messages being exchanged. Such information could be useful to the attacker as it can reveal useful information in guessing the nature of the information being exchanged [2,3]. In general, passive ... tunneled using IP. An L2TP access concentrator is the client end of Security Issues in Wireless Systems 337 Figure 12.4 The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) standard 12 Security Issues in Wireless Systems The...

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Environmental issues of thermal power plants

Environmental issues of thermal power plants

... assessment:  In the past 10 years, all the thermal power plants conducted the environmental monitoring and environmental pollution controlling annually, making Environmental Impact Assessment;  In ... Surrounding air, surface water 4 Diesel thermal power plant in Nomura Industrial Park, Hai Phong Surrounding air, surface water 4 Na Dương thermal power plant, vinacomin No information 3. Environmental ... Capacity Investor Plant Capacity Investor Operation in 2007 Operation in 2009 Cao Ngạncoal – fired TPP 100 VINACOMIN/IPP Cam Pha 1 power plant 300 VINACOMIN/IPP HH Ca Mau I turbo- gas...

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Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning

Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning

... 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 ... which 153Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning 9 Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning Francáoise ShenWeld Centre for Medical Ethics, UCL Medical School, London, UK Introduction Although ... 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 recognized in...

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Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicapped neonates

Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicapped neonates

... be severe gastrointestinal abnormalities and renal agenesis making death inevitable from renal failure within a very few days. Consideration of withholding or withdrawing life-saving medical treat- ment ... 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 must be ... withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatments from handicapped neonates revolve around good discussion within the clinical team and with the parents. All should have equal involvement in the discussion,...

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HIV in pregnancy - ethical issues in screening and therapeutic research

HIV in pregnancy - ethical issues in screening and therapeutic research

... 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 ... 12: 21–6. UK Intercollegiate Working Party for Enhancing Voluntary ConWdential HIV Testing in Pregnancy (1998). Reducing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Infection in the United Kingdom. London: ... 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...

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Multicultural issues in maternal–fetal medicine

Multicultural issues in maternal–fetal medicine

... autonomy. Instead we might face ‘egoism’, ‘social alienation’, ‘moral indiVerence’ or even ‘moral incapacity’ within such a culture. All in all, I claim that the main problem in Wnding global ... Perspective. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Wolf, S. (1999). Erasing diVerence: race, ethnicity and gender in bioethics. In Embody- ing Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances, ed. A. Donchin and L.M. ... that a woman’s rights and interests (in remaining free from outside interference and control) should have priority. At other times the child’s rights and interests in having a decent quality of...

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The fewer the better. Ethical issues in multiple gestation

The fewer the better. Ethical issues in multiple gestation

... 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 ... procedure would indicate that it involves terminating fetuses while preserving preg- nancy. Awkward but accurate deWnitions could therefore be any of the following: fetal termination with pregnancy ... (DiVerent feminist standpoints are supported by feminist standpoint theory, which I have described and defended in Mahowald, 1995a.) Within the context of that imperative, targeting some fetuses...

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