Sökning: "Withholding"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 25 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Withholding.
1. Anti-paternalism
Sammanfattning : This is a thesis about anti-paternalism – the liberal doctrine that we may not interfere with a person’s liberty for her own good. Empirical circumstances and moral values may certainly give us reason to avoid benevolent interference. Anti-paternalism as a normative doctrine should, however, be rejected. LÄS MER
2. Nursing care for patients on the edge of life : Nurses’ experiences of nursing care in intensive and nursing home related to questions of withholding or withdrawing curative treatment
Sammanfattning : Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to deepen the understanding of nursing care for seriously ill patients on the edge of life in intensive care unit (ICU) and nursing home when questions were raised whether to withhold or withdraw curative treatment. Method: All studies were conducted in a qualitative frame of reference with interviews of nurses in two contexts in Norway; group interviews of 14 nurses in an ICU (study I, III), and individual interviews of 14 nurses in two nursing homes (study II, IV). LÄS MER
3. Anti-paternalism and Public Health Policy
Sammanfattning : This thesis is an attempt to constructively interpret and critically evaluate the liberal doctrine that we may not limit a person’s liberty for her own good, and to discuss its implications and alternatives in some concrete areas of public health policy. The thesis starts theoretical and goes ever more practical. LÄS MER
4. Essays on Electricity Markets : Information and Trading
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four essays examining the functioning of electricity markets. The first article builds on a game-theoretical model, the three other articles discuss empirically the link between information and price formation process. LÄS MER
5. Immanence and transcendence in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon : a phenomenological study
Sammanfattning : The investigation studies Thomas Pynchon’s givenness in terms of three strata of manifestation: the arty, the rhizomatic, and the acosmic.Utilizing a new affective turn implemented within the phenomenological movement by Michel Henry, the study proposes that alongside a rhizomatic mode of accessibility promoting transcendence, investigates the manifestation of this ontological withholding by carrying out the phenomenological reduction established by Edmund Husserl, and by elucidating the phenomenon of immanence in the literary text by means of a theory of auto-affection rooted in—but not reducible to—such methodological reduction. LÄS MER