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Showing 1 to 20 of 213 for “"Bioethics"”.
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Quarantine: A Bioethics Game
Games can be effective tools for teaching and learning. Quarantine is a game designed as a complementary tool for learning and applying bioethical theories, principles, and methods to unique bioethical situations. It creates a format for players to discuss and resolve bioethical issues such as …
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The Core Relation Between Hospitality (Philoxenia), Dignity and Vulnerability in Orthodox Christian Bioethics: A Contribution to Global Bioethics
… world, reaching consensus in matters of bioethics has proved to be difficult, especially with the political polarization that nurtures inimical differences. This dissertation argues that a middle ground can be identified between the plurality of value systems in contemporary bioethics …
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Toward Community: Bioethics for All of Us
Bioethics, as envisioned by Van Rensselaer Potter was meant to be a bridge toward a sustainable, shared future. He believed that we must combine biological facts and ethical values to enable an idealistic survival for humanity. His vision has not been the dominant one in bioethics over the years.
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Embodied Narrative: Creating Space for Dance in Bioethics
Narrative, as a medium for communication in bioethics, has potential to liberate patient care and education as it acts as a bridge between the aesthetic and the ethical, giving expression to accounts of authentic living. Recognizing that narrative practice in bioethics unites healthcare, personal …
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UNDERSTANDING DISAGREEMENT: THE NEED FOR MORAL PSYCHOLOGY IN BIOETHICS
For many questions in bioethics, there are no right answers. Beauchamp and Childress point out: "Conscientious and reasonable moral agents understandably disagree over moral priorities in circumstances of a contingent conflict of norms." These disagreements are sometimes contentious; and without …
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An Urban Bioethics Survey of the Physician/Gun Violence Intersection
Data consistently shows that firearm violence affects minority populations disproportionately. In the 1970s, firearm injury related death was the 13th leading cause of death in America. The problem has only worsened, costing the US economy almost $230 million a year and is now the second-leading …
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Universal Principles of Bioethics and Patient Rights in Saudi Arabia
… in Saudi Arabia, and the adaptation of universal bioethics standards in the Saudi healthcare system. The role of religion and issues of human rights will be discussed further, given that religion and human rights affect patient’s rights profoundly. Specifically, the divergence between religious …
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Dual-Use Science and Bioethics: Governance of Biotechnology in Post-Soviet Russia
Throughout the world, systems of life science governance carry historical, cultural, and political legacies, which now confront the revolutionary and pervasive advances of twenty-first century biotechnology. Nations' adaptability to the twin challenges of attempting to secure the benefits while …
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Building Context: Guiding Principles for Urban Bioethics and their Application via Qualitative Research
The field of bioethics originated from failures in medical research and provided a framework for medical decision-making and research ethics with the advent of its four core principles (justice, autonomy, non-maleficence, and beneficence). However, these core principles often overlook more complex …
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Quality in All Levels: A Model Defining and Measuring Quality in Bioethics Education
… of academic studies in the quality assessment of bioethics education, this dissertation aimed to propose a normative model, Quality in All Levels (QAL), to define and measure quality in bioethics education. The QAL model described quality in bioethics education as conformance to the goals and …
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A Bioethics Tool for the Implementation of Global Principles by the Pharmaceutical Industry
… Currently, no specifically global bioethics tool exists to implement ethics principles into the business practices of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, which constitutes a glaring gap in the implementation of ethics principles. This dissertation thus aims to do the …
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THE RESUSCITATION OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: CATHOLIC BIOETHICS AND ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES
This thesis examines the relationship between Catholicism and abortion in American bioethical discourse. The project begins by detailing the history of abortion in Catholicism, followed by an exploration of the contemporary environment of the debate within the Catholic community, including the …
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Teaching Bioethics as a Stand-alone Subject in a New Zealand State Secondary School
… students interacting with a specially designed bioethics curriculum presented as a stand-alone subject within the timetable at their urban, decile six, co-educational, state secondary school. It explores the proposal that if the teaching and learning of bioethics is conducted in a …
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The Contribution of Foundational New Testament Theological Themes to the Meaning of Basic Bioethics Principles
… is a well accepted approach to contemporary bioethics. Those principles are based on what Beauchamp and Childress call the common morality. This dissertation employs New Testament theological themes to enhance the meaning of contemporary principles of bioethics. Beginning with the incarnation …
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Islamic Bioethics: National Regulations and Guidelines of Human Stem Cell Research in the Muslim World
<p>The utilization of human stem cells emerged recently in the Muslim world as one of the essential valuable areas of medicine for their vital role in developing regenerative medicine and treating chronic and incurable diseases. Existing studies indicate that most human stem cell researchers rely …
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Informed consent and the secondary use of biospecimens in oncology research legal and bioethics perspectives
Biospecimens1 collected during routine oncology diagnostic and therapeutic interventions may be stored for future medical purposes. In accordance with legal and ethical principles, the patient provides informed consent for removal of the tissue for diagnostic or therapeutic reasons. Informed …
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Bioethics and human rights in international law: genetic engineering, euthanasia and/or physician assisted suicide
… This dissertation intends to analyse the bioethics and international law concerning the dichotomy present between the application of preimplantation and prenatal genetic testing utilized in the selection process of a life to attempt to ensure an individual without illnesses, with the more …
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AN URBAN BIOETHICS APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING DISPARITIES IN NEURODEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
… a disproportionate burden of CHD. An urban bioethics approach to disparities in cardiac neurodevelopmental outcomes necessitates an examination of the context, setting, and structures in which CHD care is delivered. This thesis proposes a model through which access to and quality of cardiac …
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