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Consequentialist and Nonconsequentialist Ethical Perspectives on Organ Transplantation

that there are positive consequences in organ transplant. Organ transplant gives life to those previously destined to an early de...

Clincal Practice Guidelines and Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis in Children

Such statistics demonstrate that it is important for healthcare professionals, especially those associated involved with the treat...

Pain Perception Assessment Research Problem Solving

population, newborn infants who can not verbally communicate their pain or allow the researcher any means of utilizing patient sel...

Justice, Philosophy, and Ethics of Health Care Rationing

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

Medical Consent and Dependents Over the Age of 18

have declined given their knowledge of the fact that the pain their daughter was experiencing was not that atypical and was obviou...

Law, Genetics, and Insurance Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

Medical Education Continuation

true in the medical profession; today it is critical. At the same time, everyone is more pressed for time than in the past....

Skin Cancer Literature Review

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

Medical Legalization of Marijuana

not want to see this step being the first of many that would, as they see it, ultimately endanger society through the legalization...

Jewish Medical Experimentation by the Nazis

(1988, p.PG). They wanted to form a master race that would eventually rule the world (1988, p. PG). The Nazis, after rounding up J...

Wound Closure: Vacuum Assisted Closure Therapy (V.A.C.)

a foam dressing, which is placed in the cavity of the wound (Medica, 2000). The other end of the tube is attached to a canister th...

Selective Abortions and Medical Ethics

be ethical, considering that there is still a high degree of false positives. Still, the argument is, at least theoretically, that...

Legislation and Employee Benefits

While this paper doesnt address the hospitality industry specifically, much of legislation indicated crosses all types of jobs and...

Medical Practicing on Newly Dead Bodies and Ethics

that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...

Medicine and Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany, and France by Lynn Payer

between the patient and physician (technology, caring and values) are always present but may differ in balance. In addition, the r...

Marriage Rights, Medical Benefits, and Gay Marriage

It is becoming more and more apparent that the bonds of love go just as deep as heterosexual bonds; in fact, homosexual couples ar...

Examination of Gout

1995; Flieger, 1995). The body converts these substances to uric acid through metabolism. Approximately two thirds of the uric a...

Medicine and Technology

patient shows up in a physicians office with symptoms resembling those associated with a rare bone infection, the physician can fi...

Global Trade Issues

a replacement this would be a negative impact. The product is used as a guiding tool as well as diagnosis. Here there may be reco...

Native Medical System of Iran

help have as great an expanse of knowledge as is possible. This will also help the Iranian doctors to "find work in the private s...

Modern Organizations and Nursing Leaders

Medical Center, all of which are included in Clinical Operations. All of these nurses are RNs, and all hold the office of Vice Pr...

Triage and its Medical and Military History

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

Community Health Care Nursing and Child Abuse Interventions

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Medical Insurance

illnesses, for example, often encounters problems in convincing their insurance provider to provide the appropriate reimbursement ...

Medical Experts and the Decline in Trust

to change the class they fit into more so than at any time in the past. In addition to this there has also been an amendment in th...

EDTA Chelation Therapy as an Alternative Treatment Approach

have taken years to develop. The most vocal proponent of the treatment, Elmer M. Cranton, M.D., maintains that the only effective...

Informed Consent and Issues of Medical Ethics

physicians, theologians, and lawyers in founding journals, research centers, hospital and medical school committees, departments, ...

Book 2 of Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr

the American population was not native born American; in the minds of United States citizens, the foreign-born populace -- mostly ...

Contemporary Medicine and the Impact of 'Telemedicine'

as we see advances in the world of telemedicine. INTRODUCTION The literature review of telemedicine articles is based on inform...

Homeopathy and Latin American Folk Healers

the counter medicines do not offer this flexibility. In many countries where modern medicine is trying to gain a foothold...