... 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 increasing ... more interesting if students address issues, pollutants, workplaces, and problems faced in their own communities. Such emphases will bring ethical issues “home.” Module 7: EthicalIssues in...
... whatsense of best? Clinical best? Moral best?Tensions between medicine and nursing are increasingly coming tothe fore in the field of health care research. In the past, says Blackburn in chapter 5, ... discovery in theGEOFFREY HUNT 11Noddings’ work might be expected to have something important to sayfor nursing ethics. She distinguishes between natural caring and ethical caring and maintains that ... questions. ButNoddings recognised that prior conditions must be met for ethical caring. Hanford speaks of nursing having to practise in a ‘chronicallyethically diminished state’. Nursing administration...
... in the context of ethicalissues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. He writes, ‘Life-sustaining treatmentimplies that treatment is being given in order to maintain or create the bestpossible ... now face a growing number of controversial issues involving human reproduction. To illustrate the variety of issues, considerthe following three scenarios. In the Wrst case, involving a pregnant ... according to theview in question, infants lack a right to life. However, this is at odds with ourmoral intuitions, according to which infants have moral interests that deserveprotection, including...
... which15 3Ethical issuesin embryo interventions and cloning9 Ethical issuesin embryo interventionsand cloningFranc¸oise ShenWeldCentre for Medical Ethics, UCL Medical School, London, UKIntroductionAlthough ... replaced in a uterus. Finally, thereport concludes with a clear condemnation of reproductive cloning, andcalls for fully informing the public and stimulating debate.15 7Ethical issuesin embryo interventions ... pertinent.Indeed if dignity has to be deWned in any essential manner, as it must be ifenshrined in international declarations, it is the unique quality of all humanbeings, also recognized in...
... 21.1. Ethicalissuesin withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicappedneonates – in the presence of uncertainty.light of the best scientiWc knowledge available. The future for the infant ... withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatmentsfrom handicapped neonates revolve around good discussion within the clinical team and with the parents. All should have equal involvement in thediscussion, ... developmental morbidity in children less than 26 weeks gestation at 2.5 years of age. Pediatric Research 45: 259A.34 5Ethical issuesin withdrawing life-sustaining treatmentinterest at the time...
... 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 and71HIV in pregnancy4HIV in pregnancy: ethicalissuesin screening ... contravene existing guide-lines – in particular, the Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association,1996) and the international ethical guidelines for biomedical research involv-ing human subjects ... 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 theUnited Kingdom. London:...
... the administration of infertility drugs, if ultrasoundmonitoring indicated maturation of multiple follicle cells (Manier, 1998:p. 1). At that point, clinicians might have declined to administer ... procedurewould indicate that it involves terminating fetuses while preserving preg-nancy. Awkward but accurate deWnitions could therefore be any of thefollowing: fetal termination with pregnancy ... (DiVerent feminist standpoints are supported by feminist standpointtheory, which I have described and defended in Mahowald, 1995a.)Within the context of that imperative, targeting some fetuses...
... clinical experience with dronabinol.Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1991;40:695-700.124. Di Marzo V, Goparaju SK, Wang L, et al.Leptin-regulated endocannabinoids are involved in maintaining food intake. ... NPYfeeding systems are dysfunctional in anorectictumor-bearing rats. NPY injected intrahypo-thalamically stimulated feeding less potently in rats bearing methylcholanthrene-inducedsarcoma than in ... signal.76,77Convergent information suggests that CRFmay be involved in triggering changes in gastrointestinal motility observed during stressexposure. CRF may induce delayed gastricemptying and gastric...
... females Cisplatin Carboplatin Doxorubicin Specific Regimens: VAMP w/COP Low Risk/No Risk: Cytarabine Vincristine Methotrexate Dactinomycin Bleomycin Mercaptopurine Vinblastine Page ... taking hormone therapy with their doctor. Low levels of ovarian hormones also increase the risk of bone thinning (osteoporosis). Getting enough calcium and vitamin D (in the diet or by taking ... the timing in mind when deciding on this treatment option. The first pregnancy from a frozen embryo was in 1983, and since then thousands of children have been born following embryo freezing....
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... effectivethan CBGO in improving the baseline, underper-forming its constraint-based counterpart in 11 of the12 cases. In fact, FBGO is able to significantly im-prove the corresponding baseline in only ... features are important in order to gain linguistic insights into the problem.Specifically, we measure the informativeness ofa feature by computing its information gain (seep.22 of Quinlan (1993) for ... dis-tinguishing anaphoric and non-anaphoric NPs. Theclassification associated with a training instance —one of ANAPHORIC or NOT ANAPHORIC — is de-rived from coreference chains in the training...