ethical issues in quantitative research methods

... 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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... 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 ... stimulating debate. 15 7Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning Conclusion Cloning is only one example, among the many discussed in this chapter, of ethical dilemmas in the new reproductive ... 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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... 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 ... 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 ... 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...

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... 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 ultrasound monitoring 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 standpoint theory, which I have described and defended in Mahowald, 1995a.) Within the context of that imperative, targeting some fetuses...

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... of research question, influences on the funding of some research projects (and not others), influences on the outcome of research (i.e., findings), and influences on the dissemination of research ... 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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... typically include: A. Junior analysts joining quantitative positions in the financial or insurance indus- try; B. Master of Science (MS) students; C. Ph.D. candidates; D. Professionals enrolled in programs ... presentations. People also ask for focused training lectures on practical issues in model implementation. In response, we have invested a considerable amount of time in writing a book that offers a “hands-on” ... corresponding to splitting the interval [−6, 10] into N = 100 bins. We have performed the same analysis under thinner refinements, that is N = 200 and N = 300. In general, error numbers increase...

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... numbers we may employ stratified sampling. This technique introduces a bias in the allocation of sampled points by forcing samples to stick into subintervals refining [0, 1].Letn be the number of samples ... corresponding to splitting the interval [−6, 10] into N = 100 bins. We have performed the same analysis under thinner refinements, that is N = 200 and N = 300. In general, error numbers increase ... Trading: Winning or Losing in a kBit 311 11.1 ProblemStatement 312 11.2 Model and Solution Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314 11.2.1 Measuring Trading System...

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... 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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