... 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...
... associated in humans with reduced intracellular antioxidant (11). Interestingly, antioxidants improve insulin sensitivity and help in wound healing (16,17). Along with others, the investigators ... delaying wound healing in aged rate and dia-betic rats (14). It has been found that chronic leg ulcers contain localized oxidative stress (15). The recent finding revealed that insulin resistance ... antioxidants and IKK-B inhibitors protect against insulin resistance (52,53). Data show that increased lipid peroxidation in NIDDM has implications for vascular disease in dia-betes (54)....
... forsurvival. They are refining and updating internal business practices to rein in costs and improve service. Organizations that have been successful withthese reengineering initiatives have become ... BygraveThe Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting, Third Edition, John LeslieLivingstone and Theodore GrossmanThe Portable MBA in Investment, Peter L. BernsteinThe Portable MBA in Management, Second ... Survive.viiPreface In the 1990s, project management moved from a little-used industrial engineer-ing discipline to the engine of managing America’s work. Prior to 1990, project management techniques...
... providing to shipping lines at terminals are services related to ships and crew, shipping boarding agency, packages tallying, containers tallying, cargoes tallying for loading into containers, export ... requested in each order. Therefore, organizing mixed stocking locations between reserve goods and order picking goods slows order picking activities down by wasting time in finding and picking the ... Vinalink’s customers and attract a bigger market for Vinalink’s services. In short, Logistics Department can reform its logistics management by aiming at improving management weaknesses in...
... related issues confronting the coastal zone including engineering,environmental, socio-economic problems in a single project in a holistic manner.2. The Project employed soft engineering approach ... Learned1. This project is significant in that for the first time in Malaysia coastal management issues have been addressed concurrently in an integrated manner in single project under onegovernment ... in the basin at the river mouth as illustrated in Plate 7.The cascading structure is made fromcut granite blocks. This type of blockrevetment has been used in China andEurope. The cascading...
... 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...
... 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. ... 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...
... theremaining phenol binds to the nerve tissue duringthe following few minutes; by 15 minutes from thestart of the phenol administration, only 0.1% of theadministered dose remains in the CSF ... muscle origin and its point of insertion (Brash,1955).A modification of motor point injections knownas the intramuscular alcohol (or phenol) wash is to in ltrate multiple sites in the muscle ... catheterization, washing and cleaningthe perineal area and seating or positioning in bed.Occasionally, obturator nerve blocks are used to pre-vent the development of, or to promote the healingof, skin pressure...
... cannot be linked back to the source. best in the business in the private sector. This type of The main issue then in is in the feeling of anonymity. If benchmarking implies comparing customer ... considered in and the costs involved in obtaining it. It should also be determining whether a survey will or should be used tonoted that collecting that information in person or over the provide comparable ... about all of the aspects involved in the process of determining who your customers are is not alwaysobtaining and using products and services. We targeted straightforward in the Federal Government....