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The Metaphysics of Brain Death
(1995-04)
The dominant conception of brain death as the death of the whole
brain constitutes an unstable compromise between the view that a person ceases
to exist when she irreversibly loses the capacity for consciousness and the
view ...
Toward a Virtue-Based Normative Ethics for the Health Professions
(1995-09)
Virtue is the most perdurable concept in the history of ethics, which
is understandable given the ineradicability of the moral agent in the events
of the moral life. Historically, virtue enjoyed normative force as long as ...
Proxy Decision Making for Incompetent Patients: An Ethical and Empirical Analysis
(1992-04-15)
Conclusions: The recent trend has been to rely on proxy decision
making for incompetent patients. Support for proxy decision making has failed
to acknowledge the growing body of ethical and empirical research suggesting
that ...
Guidelines for Nursing Homes Raise Some Questions
(1983-12)
In June 1983, a task force appointed by the Minnesota Board on Aging
issued a set of guidelines designed to improve the process of making decisions
about when to provide "supportive care," i.e., "care and treatment to ...
Comments on Ethical Protocol
(1982-09)
Double Jeopardy and the Use of QALYs in Health Care Allocation
(1995-06)
The use of the Quality Adjusted Life-Year (QALY) as a measure of the
benefit obtained from health care expenditure has been attacked on the ground
that it gives a lower value to preserving the lives of people with a ...
The Illusion of Patient Choice in End-of-Life Decisions
(1992-04-15)
Over the past two decades a societal consensus has developed around
the principle that decisions about life-sustaining treatment should be guided
by patient self-determination. According to the President's Commission, ...
Figh Islami va padeideh shabieh sazi = Cloning and Islamic (Figh) perspective
(2007-11)
Simulation or transcription which is called cloning derived from Greek word (clon) that means cutting, budding and proliferating. Cloning is the creation of an organism that is an exact process of creating a genetic copy ...