... 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 cloning 9 Ethical issuesin embryo interventionsand cloningFrancáoise 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 ... be repeated andsevere problems and invasive therapy, parents may feel that treatment33 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 and71HIV in pregnancy 4HIV 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:...
... 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 ... 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 ... (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...
... 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 theGEOFFREY HUNT 11 Noddings’ work might be expected to have something important to sayfor nursing ethics. She distinguishes between natural caring and ethical caring and maintains ... 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 ... may be reprinted or reproduced orutilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, nowknown or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in anyinformation...
... 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 sowould only lead to frustration and discomfort. Such things should beavoided. Walking away from such involvement is only maximising Ethicalissuesin social ... available in this series: Ethical Issuesin Journalism and the Media edited by Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick Genetic Counselling edited by Angus Clarke Ethical Issuesin Nursing edited...
... importance of ageing in the increase in health expenditures per capita during the period from 1940 to 1990 in the United States. He found that that ageing, in the sense of an increasing proportion ... are increasing in age, but also that the rates of increase in per capita health spending are greatest for the older groups. B. Changes in Age Distribution and changes in Health Spending ... that the changing age-distribution in favor of the elderly reflects two influences – increased life expectancy at older ages and a bulge in the population resulting from declining infant mortality,...
... Aligning Sentences in Bilin- gual Corpora. In 29th Annual Meeting of the Association -for Computational Linguis- tics, Berkeley, CA. N. Ide and J. V~ronis, 1995. The Text Encod- ing Initiative: ... results were not taken into account in the final grading of the systems. The overall ranking for all systems (excluding the TECH corpus results) is given in Figure 2, in terms of the Sent ... Computational Lin- guistics, 19(1):121-142. Judith Klavans and Evelyne Tzoukermama. 1995. Combining Corpus and Machine- readable Dictionary Data for Building Bilin- gual Lexicons. Machine Translation,...
... (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, ... xiinsurmountable and great strides have been made in meeting and addressing the issues by those working in the relevant disciplines that include both computer science ... issues. In general terms, buying prescription drugs remotely encourages a culture of independence from recognised institutional Copyright â 2008, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print...
... was developed in response to the increasing use of mobile computers in order toenable computers to maintain Internet connection during their movement from one Internetaccess point to another. ... encrypted messages being exchanged. Such information could be useful to theattacker as it can reveal useful information in guessing the nature of the information beingexchanged [2,3]. In general, passive ... tunneled using IP. An L2TP access concentrator is the client end ofSecurity Issuesin Wireless Systems 337Figure 12.4 The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) standard 12Security Issuesin WirelessSystemsThe...
... autonomy. Instead we might face ‘egoism’, ‘socialalienation’, ‘moral indiVerence’ or even ‘moral incapacity’ within such aculture.All in all, I claim that the main problem in Wnding global bioethical ... health care, resulting in increased immunization coverage and greater use of family planning methods. The community members themselves are involved in choosing thehealth care methods as well as ... 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....