ethical issues in clinical trial design ppt

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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 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: Ethical Issues in...

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... what sense of best? Clinical best? Moral best? Tensions between medicine and nursing are increasingly coming to the fore in the field of health care research. In the past, says Blackburn in chapter 5, ... 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’. Nursing administration...

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... 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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... 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 debate. 15 7Ethical issues in embryo interventions ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... 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 should have equal involvement in the discussion, ... developmental morbidity in children less than 26 weeks gestation at 2.5 years of age. Pediatric Research 45: 259A. 34 5Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment interest at the time...

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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 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 the United Kingdom. London:...

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... 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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... 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. ... NPY feeding systems are dysfunctional in anorectic tumor-bearing rats. NPY injected intrahypo- thalamically stimulated feeding less potently in rats bearing methylcholanthrene-induced sarcoma than in ... signal. 76,77 Convergent information suggests that CRF may be involved in triggering changes in gastrointestinal motility observed during stress exposure. CRF may induce delayed gastric emptying and gastric...

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... 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....

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication ... participate in such struggles, since doing so would only lead to frustration and discomfort. Such things should be avoided. Walking away from such involvement is only maximising Ethical issues in social ... available in this series: Ethical Issues in Journalism and the Media edited by Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick Genetic Counselling edited by Angus Clarke Ethical Issues in Nursing edited...

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... Sections of the quality press—the Guardian, The Independent, the Financial Times— have nobly maintained a public interest role, but in a changing and increasingly complex democratic society there is ... be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information ... media. Broadcasting is subject to a number of statutory licensing and regulating bodies, including the Independent Television Commission, the Radio Authority, the Broadcasting Complaints Commission...

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... effective than CBGO in improving the baseline, underper- forming its constraint-based counterpart in 11 of the 12 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 of a feature by computing its information gain (see p.22 of Quinlan (1993) for ... dis- tinguishing anaphoric and non-anaphoric NPs. The classification associated with a training instance — one of ANAPHORIC or NOT ANAPHORIC — is de- rived from coreference chains in the training...

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