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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 41 avhandlingar innehållade orden medicinsk etik.
1. Confluence and Divergence of Emancipatory Healthcare Ideals and Psychiatric Contextual Challenges
Sammanfattning : Person-centered care (PCC) is generally understood to involve shaping healthcare processes, decisions, and plans according to the individual values, preferences, or goals of each patient. This is in contrast to more traditional approaches which provide care to patients based on standard clinical guidelines. LÄS MER
2. Brain, consciousness and disorders of consciousness at the intersection of neuroscience and philosophy
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation starts from the general claim that neuroscience is not neutral, with regard to theoretical questions like the nature of consciousness, but it needs to be complemented with dedicated conceptual analysis. Specifically, the argument for this thesis is that the combination of empirical and conceptual work is a necessary step for assessing the significant questions raised by the most recent study of the brain. LÄS MER
3. The Substituted Judgment Standard. Studies on the Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making
Sammanfattning : Patients who are incompetent need a surrogate decision maker to make treatment decisons on their behalf. One of the main ethical questions that arise in this context is what standard ought to govern such decision making. LÄS MER
4. Do-not-resuscitate orders Ethical aspects on decision making and communication among physicians, nurses, patients and relatives
Sammanfattning : The purpose was to describe ethical aspects on how do-not-resuscitate (DNR) deci-sions are made, established, and communicated between physicians, nurses, patients and relatives. A random sample of 220 physicians and nurses answered a questionnaire about their attitudes to and experiences of the making and communication of a DNR decision. LÄS MER
5. Fleshing out the self : Reimagining intersexed and trans embodied lives through (auto)biographical accounts of the past
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores how current ways of imagining possibilities for intersexed and trans embodied lives within medical contexts might be informed by and reimagined through the historical lived experiences of intersexed and trans individuals as they have been articulated in autobiographical accounts.Postmodern, queer, intersex, and trans researchers and activists have criticised existing standards of intersex and trans healthcare for limiting the possibilities for diverse embodied lives by articulating certain forms of embodiment and selfhood as more likely to enable a liveable life than others. LÄS MER
