... in the context of ethicalissues 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...
... which
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Ethical issuesin embryo interventions
and cloning
Francáoise 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 issuesin embryo interventions ... diminished sense
of individuality and personal autonomy, belong to the same analysis.
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trates on practical issues, within the context of licensing clinics for testing
speciWc inherited...
... 21.1. Ethicalissuesin withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicapped
neonates – in the presence of uncertainty.
light of the best scientiWc knowledge available. The future for the infant ... be repeated and
severe problems and invasive therapy, parents may feel that treatment
33 9Ethical issuesin withdrawing life-sustaining treatment
and Withholding Treatment. London: St Mary’s NHS ... 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 treatment
interest 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 and
71HIV in pregnancy
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HIV 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 the
United Kingdom. London:...
... 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 ... encounter.
In what follows I describe diVerent methods of fetal termination in
multiple gestation, and critique the terminology used in discussing these
methods. The perspective I bring to this analysis ... (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...
... 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...
... discovery in the
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Noddings’ work might be expected to have something important to say
for nursing ethics. She distinguishes between natural caring and ethical
caring and maintains ... 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 ... may be reprinted or reproduced or
utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now
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information...
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we illustrate our preferred approach in dealing with the “intertemporal resolution
of uncertainty” in financial risk analysisin a way that may be understood and
adopted in ... 2
Conceptual Issuesin Financial Risk Analysis:
A Review for Practitioners
Abstract: This paper presents a critical review of the conceptual issues involved
in accounting for financial risk in project ... find the
corresponding certainty equivalent for each year, using the definitions provided in
lines 13a – 13c. As shown below in Table 6, however, the annual adjustment
factors will now vary, indicating...
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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
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edited by Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick
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edited by Angus Clarke
Ethical Issuesin 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...
... dissemination systems include many different
kinds of data. Each of the following kinds of data is included in at least one of the
seven data systems examined for this study. Reflecting the history ... states and across databases
within states, mainly adopting the rules in individual data systems for published
data. The definition may also differ from what is considered small in statistical
terms, ... with these interactive data dissemination systems. The analysis is
based on telephone interviews with 14 individuals in five states involved with the
development and use of seven distinct interactive...
... (Eds.), Medical informatics knowledge management and
data mining in biomedicine (pp. 95-137). Springer Science+Business Media,
Inc. 2005.
Crawford, S. (2003). Internet pharmacy: Issues of access, ... xi
insurmountable and great strides have been made in meeting and addressing the
issues by those working in the relevant disciplines that include both computer
science ... legal issues
of condentiality and data protection. Condentiality focuses on maintaining the
secrecy of information and data protection focuses on the legal framework governing
the processing...
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ASINH(x) The inverse hyperbolic sine, arsinh, in radians: ASINH(0.5) ϭ0.481212
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