... 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:...
... 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
Franc¸oise ShenWeld
Centre for Medical Ethics, UCL Medical School, London, UK
Introduction
Although ... stimulating debate.
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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...
... 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 ... 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 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...
... 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...
... 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: EthicalIssues in...
... 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
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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 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...
... 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 issuesin 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...
... 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
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