Sökning: "Clinical ethics"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 68 avhandlingar innehållade orden Clinical ethics.
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. Postpone death? : Nurse-physician perspectives on life-sustaining treatment and ethics rounds
Sammanfattning : The starting point of the present thesis is nurses’ reported experiences of disagreements with physicians for pushing life sustaining treatment too far. The overall aim was to describe and compare nurses’ and physicians’ perspectives on the boundaries for life-sustaining treatment and to evaluate whether ethics rounds could promote mutual understanding and stimulate ethical reflection. LÄS MER
4. COMPETENCE AND COMMUNICATION : Do Not Resuscitate Decisions in Cancer Care
Sammanfattning : Within cancer care, do not resuscitate (DNR) decisions are frequently made. DNR decisions can be ethically difficult and lead to conflicts of interest and disagreements within the medical team. LÄS MER
5. Parental participation in paediatric surgical care. Clinical, ethical and economic considerations
Sammanfattning : In order to deliver optimal paediatric care, we need to know what children and their parents need, expect, and experience. Thus, the general aim of the studies upon which this thesis is based was to elucidate different aspects of parental participation in the care of their child during hospitalisation for paediatric surgery, a specific aim being formulated for each of the four studies. LÄS MER