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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"Medical ethics."”.
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Medical ethics and the regulation of medical practice with particular reference to the development of medical ethics within the British Medical Association 1832-1993
… and to catalogue the issues discussed within the medical ethics committee (and its predecessors) and the decisions reached. In some cases a total record is supplied and in others, because of the volume of data, a sampling system has been employed. This analysis, together with the study of four …
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Ren as a Guideline for Solving Military Medical Ethics Violations in S.E.R.E.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a psychiatric disorder triggered by traumatic events, is characterized by a range of symptoms that vary in severity, including: repeated, involuntary memories, ongoing fear, mistrust of others, irritability, lack of sleep, detachment, etc. (American …
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Cultivating moral medicine: Ethical criticism and the relevance of Richard Selzer to medical ethics education
… and essential moral truths to the conception of ethics fundamental to medical education and practice.
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Developing and Evaluating an Innovative Ethics Education Strategy for Undergraduate Medical Education
Background Medical ethics education is complex due to various reasons, and this is compounded by the context-dependent nature of the content. The social nature of the discipline with an intricate relationship between the cultural context and demands of professional conduct renders its …
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Depression, Volition, and Death: The Effect of Depressive Disorders on the Autonomous Choice to Forgo Medical Treatment
Many contemporary models of medical ethics champion patient autonomy to counterbalance historically paternalistic decision-making processes. These models tend to suggest an autonomous agent free from cognitive bias and systematic distortion (e.g., Kantian or Cartesian rational agents). Evidence is …
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A Model for Clinical Ethics Education in Otolaryngology Residency
… inextricably linked to the practice of clinical medical ethics. The Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in its development of core competencies has recently recognized this association for resident physicians. Included in these competencies is professionalism, and a key …
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Quality of life and ethics-patients with ischemic heart disease
… the one-year assessment. QoL assessments and medical ethics emphasize the experience and will of the individual. The patient's own evaluation of health has a predictive value and should be included in the clinical monitoring. A questionnaire can capture a decreased quality of life, identify …
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An Examination of Uncertainty in Perinatal Palliative Care
Medical ethics is a field that blends ethical theory with practice in a very concrete way. Many commonly discussed ethical issues derive specifically from addressing medical care at the end of life, and these issues become particularly complicated when the patient in question is a neonate or a …
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Respecting autonomy: Education in practice
… In doing so I work to provide a model for doing medical ethics that is educational rather than exhortative, whose focus is helping healthcare providers (HCPs) become more sophisticated in their understanding of what their practices and beliefs and values mean. Specific to the matter of autonomy, …
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Covenantal Ethics: A Living System for Living Systems
<p>Covenantal ethics is a living system for living systems. We humans are not simple, isolated individuals living stagnant, dead lives. Rather we are immersed in a complex system of living, glowing and developing interpersonal relationships with others. Philosophy in general and ethics in …
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[Title missing] : on the metaphysics and ethics of omissions.
… and then apply that analysis to an issue in medical ethics. One omits when they don't act in a particular way, can act in that way, the action was required for some further activity, and one is already (in some sense) engaged in that further activity. I argue, contrary to contemporary …
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Casuistry: Towards a More Complete Approach
There are currently two main approaches to medical ethics: a principle-based approach (principlism) and a case-based approach (casuistry). In this dissertation I argue that casuistry is the more perspicuous of the two approaches. The first portion of my dissertation analyzes the current state of …
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Sickle cell disease awareness amongst college students
… Care Systems (CHLH 250), and Introduction to Medical Ethics (CHLH 260) were used as study participants. These 259 participants were assessed on their general knowledge of sickle cell disease (SCD). Participants in this study were given a sickle cell disease questionnaire that consisted of 11 …
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Pathological Bodies. Specimen Preservation, Death and Display in Britain, 18-19th Centuries.
… and research of pathology, epidemiology and medical ethics. This research also suggests that they are significant in opening up conversations on death and dying, contemporary disease, familial health, and the display of the human body.
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How are Ethical Problems Resolved in a Paediatric Intensive Care?
Few studies have explored how medical ethics works in practice specifically in terms of the social processes that result in a decision regarding an ethical problem. This is particularly so in the case of children’s intensive care. More than a decade of teaching healthcare ethics to both nurses and …
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Re-imagining doctor-patient relationships in an African context: a transformative educational perspective
… are central to health care, health systems and medical education. Current educational practice of doctor-patient relationships emerged from an episteme rooted in a biomedical understanding of disease, having epistemic and pedagogical roots in Global North contexts. The thesis offers an analysis …
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A Quack on Trial: Advertising and Education in Missouri's Medical Marketplace, 1850--1890
… of a larger struggle to shape the future of medical practice in America. The orthodox Catlett was among the best-educated physicians in St. Joseph, Mo., and he utilized membership in local and national professional organizations to gain lucrative appointments. In contrast, the …
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Enhancing Quality Ethics Consultations in Pediatric Medicine
<p>Medical ethics consultations occur predominantly in the adult realm of medicine, alternatively in Pediatric Medicine there is a widespread lack of training and skilled professionals to service these requests. Most of the literature in pediatric ethics consultations revolves around mirroring …
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Doing right by students: professional ethics for professors
Academic interest in professional ethics burgeoned during the 1970s and 1980s, subsequent to public awareness of ethical failures in law, medicine, business, and government. Only recently, however, did academics turn their attention to the ethics of the academy itself. New models of academic …
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