... 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...
... in British Columbia, Canada, which demonstrates a significant decrease in the incidence of acute HBV infection in people aged 15 to 24 years [13]. A decrease in the incidence, observed in ... hepatitis occurring in childhood, in Canada. Our analyses of the EHSSS data collected during 1999-2003, suggest that these factors contribute to a reduced incidence of HBV infections in Canadian-born ... Int. J. Med. Sci. 2005 2 146coast spanning Western Canada, the Prairies, Central Canada, and the Atlantic region, involving English-speaking, French-speaking and other diverse...
... improved by: (i) Refining, expanding, and reinforcing its knowledge base using new findings as reported in literature or new experience from domain expertise; (ii) Adding further functional ... educational background in civil engineering/ water resources. Dr. Lariyah’s major field in hydrology/urban drainage. Dr. Lariyah has earned her PhD in civil engineering from Kyoto University, ... Professor in civil engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, kajang,Selangor, Malaysia. His educational background in civil engineering/ water resources. Prof. MohamedNor’s major field in hydrology/...
... 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) standard12Security Issuesin WirelessSystemsThe...
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... cloning, andcalls for fully informing the public and stimulating debate.157Ethical issuesin embryo interventions and cloningConclusionCloning is only one example, among the many discussed in ... which153Ethical issuesin embryo interventions and cloning9Ethical issuesin embryo interventionsand cloningFranc¸oise ShenWeldCentre for Medical Ethics, UCL Medical School, London, UKIntroductionAlthough ... 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...
... 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 pregnancy4HIV 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: ... disappointingthat at the time of writing, President Mbeki of South Africa appears to bereversing this positive trend. Rather than endorsing a programme of nationalfunding for perinatal zidovudine...
... 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. ... Whilethe idea in itself promises more equality to women, importing it and applyingit directly to a male-dominated culture may create serious problems in practice. In a society in which patriarchal...
... 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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