Sökning: "beneficence"

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  1. 1. Payback Time : Essays on Attitudes, Partiality, and Rescuing

    Författare :Romy Eskens; Helen Frowe; Gunnar Björnsson; R. Jay Wallace; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethics; moral philosophy; reactive attitudes; gratitude; supererogation; beneficence; wrongdoing; equality; partiality; duties to rescue; Philosophy; filosofi;

    Sammanfattning : Does the moral quality of someone’s past treatment of us, or of other people, change how we are morally permitted or required to treat them? Many philosophers think so. They argue, for instance, that someone’s supererogatory or impermissible behaviour can permit or require certain positive or negative attitudinal responses, such as gratitude or resentment. LÄS MER

  3. 2. ETHICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS

    Författare :Ingela Krantz; Medicinsk etik; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Herpes virus type 2; prostate cancer; measles; evidence-based medicine; casuistry; virtues; principlism; values; ethics; vaccination; Public health; screening; postpartum depression.;

    Sammanfattning : Programmatic vaccination and screening are the reasons for this thesis. The practice of public health incorporating medicine’s cognitive contents along with contributions from other fields of human activities is basically a moral enterprise. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Physiotherapy in a Danish private context - a social and ethical practice

    Författare :Jeanette Praestegaard; Människan i rörelse: hälsa och rehabilitering; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Foucault; practice; ethical issues; professional ethics; Physiotherapy;

    Sammanfattning : Physiotherapy is a social and ethical practice which unfolds under specific historical, political, socio-cultural and economic circumstances. Danish physiotherapy in a private context is practiced, administered and managed within a neoliberal ideology which generates challenges for both physiotherapists and their patients. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Do-not-resuscitate orders Ethical aspects on decision making and communication among physicians, nurses, patients and relatives

    Författare :Rurik Löfmark; Medicinsk etik; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Allmän medicinsk utövning; medical training; General practice; futility; DNR orders; decision making; communication; physicians; nurses; patients; ethics; relatives; medicinsk utbildning;

    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

  7. 5. Quality of life and ethics-patients with ischemic heart disease

    Författare :Lars Westin; Medicinsk etik; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Kardiovaskulära systemet; Bioethics; Prognosis; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Cardiovascular system; Myocardial ischemia;

    Sammanfattning : One month and one year after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (n=296), coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) (n=99) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (n=18) patients completed a questionnaire for self-assessment of quality of life (QoL) during the period 1989?1991. Patients differed from age- and sex-matched controls (n=88) in both somatic and emotional dimensions, but less after one year of follow-up. LÄS MER