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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 22 avhandlingar innehållade ordet bioethics.

  1. 16. Virtue Ethics, Bioethics, and the Ownership of Biological Material

    Författare :Barbro Björkman; Sven Ove Hansson; Brad Hooker; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Biological material; ownership; rights; organ; donation; property; commodification; kidney; virtue ethics; natural rights; transplantation; transplant; social organisation; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to show how some ideas in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics can be interpreted and used as a productive way to approach a number of pressing issues in bioethics. Articles I-II introduce, and endorse, a social constructivist perspective on rights (as opposed to the more traditional natural rights idea). LÄS MER

  3. 17. Capsulotomy in anxiety disorders

    Författare :Christian Rück; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :obsessive-compulsive disorder; anxiety disorders; psychosurgery; internal capsule; prefrontal cortex; neuropsychology; personality inventory; bioethics; neurosurgery;

    Sammanfattning : Background and aim: Anxiety disorders are common and a substantial proportion of patients do not respond to conventional treatments such as SSRIs or CBT. Capsulotomy is a neurosurgical treatment for treatment refractory patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and other anxiety disorders. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Informative Paternalism. Case studies in the ethics of promoting and predicting health

    Författare :Nina Nikku; Lennart Nordenfelt; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :paternalism; medical ethics; health promotion; predictive medicine; health information; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the ethical conflict between promoting health and respecting the individual's right to self-determination. An action which is performed with the intention of benefiting the recipient but without his informed consent is defined as paternalistic. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Lika men ändå olika : Språkscreening av enspråkiga och flerspråkiga barn vid 2,5-3 år på BVC

    Författare :Laleh Nayeb; Anna Sarkadi; Mårten Eriksson; Eva-Kristina Salameh; Kristina Hansson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :bilingual children; child healthcare; child health nurses; child health services; classification accuracy; environmental factors; language development; language disorder; monolingual children; screening; stability; validation; Hälso- och sjukvårdsforskning; Health Care Research;

    Sammanfattning : Children who do not develop their language as expected are at risk of difficulties in school and with peer relations. The Swedish Child Health Services (CHS) offer preventive health surveillance, including language screening, at 2.5-3 years. However, the screening has only been validated for monolingual children. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Stimulating the Brain : Ethical Perspectives on Deep Brain Stimulation & Nano Scaled Brain Machine Interfaces

    Författare :Veronica Johansson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses some of the ethical concerns raised by connecting man and machine through so called Brain-Machine Interfaces, BMIs, elaborate brain implants that may both further our knowledge of the brain and alleviate neurological dysfunction and impairments. The primary foci have been to address urgent and prominent concerns elicited by BMIs; to critically evaluate arguments relevant to an ethical analysis of Deep Brain Stimulation, DBS; and to address and develop ignored or underrepresented perspectives of importance in an ethical analysis of DBS. LÄS MER