... in the context of ethical issues 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...
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... be severe gastrointestinal abnormalities and renalagenesis making death inevitable from renal failure within a very few days.Consideration of withholding or withdrawing life-saving medical treat-ment ... Ethical issuesin withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicappedneonates – in the presence of uncertainty.light of the best scientiWc knowledge available. The future for the infant mustbe ... withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatmentsfrom handicapped neonates revolve around good discussion within theclinical team and with the parents. All should have equal involvement in thediscussion,...
... 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: ethical issuesin screening ... 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: ... participate in trials (or the very privileged) who stand achance of receiving prophylactic therapy.Hence the majority of HIV- positive women living in poor countries facethe prospect of bringing into...
... 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 ... 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. ... that a woman’s rightsand interests (in remaining free from outside interference and control)should have priority. At other times the child’s rights and interests in having adecent quality of...
... 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 ... procedurewould indicate that it involves terminating fetuses while preserving preg-nancy. Awkward but accurate deWnitions could therefore be any of thefollowing: fetal termination with pregnancy ... (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...
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