... 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 ... diminished senseof individuality and personal autonomy, belong to the same analysis. 156 F. Shenfield trates on practical issues, within the context of licensing clinics for testingspeciWc inherited...
... 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:...
... 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 ... encounter. In what follows I describe diVerent methods of fetal termination in multiple gestation, and critique the terminology used in discussing thesemethods. The perspective I bring to this analysis ... (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...
... linked. In Part Two,we illustrate our preferred approach in dealing with the “intertemporal resolutionof uncertainty” in financial risk analysisin a way that may be understood andadopted in ... 2Conceptual Issuesin Financial Risk Analysis: A Review for PractitionersAbstract: This paper presents a critical review of the conceptual issues involved in accounting for financial risk in project ... find thecorresponding certainty equivalent for each year, using the definitions provided in lines 13a – 13c. As shown below in Table 6, however, the annual adjustmentfactors will now vary, indicating...
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... dissemination systems include many differentkinds of data. Each of the following kinds of data is included in at least one of theseven data systems examined for this study. Reflecting the history ... states and across databaseswithin states, mainly adopting the rules in individual data systems for published data. The definition may also differ from what is considered small in statisticalterms, ... with these interactive data dissemination systems. The analysis isbased on telephone interviews with 14 individuals in five states involved with thedevelopment and use of seven distinct interactive...
... (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 ... legal issues of condentiality and data protection. Condentiality focuses on maintaining the secrecy of information and data protection focuses on the legal framework governing the processing...
... The inverse cosine, arccos, in radians: ACOS(0.5) ϭ1.047198ACOSH(x) The inverse hyperbolic cosine, arcosh, in radians: ACOSH(1.5) ϭ0.962424ASIN(x) The inverse sine, arcsin, in radians: ASIN(0.5) ... ϭ0.523599ASINH(x) The inverse hyperbolic sine, arsinh, in radians: ASINH(0.5) ϭ0.481212ATAN(x) The inverse tangent, arctan, in radians: ATAN(0.5) ϭ0.463648ATAN2(x,y) ϭATAN(y/x)ATANH(x) The inverse ... artanh, in radians: ATANH(0.5) ϭ0.549306COS(x) The cosine, in radians: COS(0.5)ϭ0.877583COSH(x) The hyperbolic cosine, cosh, in radians: COSH(0.5) ϭ1.127626SIN(x) The sine, in radians: SIN(0.5)...