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Ethics and Removing Medical Patients from Life Support

In 5 pages this ethical consideration discusses 3 philosophers' views on removing medical patients from life support. There are 5...

Nazi's Human Medical Experimentation and Ethics

In ten pages this paper examines 4 articles on the Nazi medical experiments on humans and the ethical implications of such experim...

Substance Abuse Treatment Privacy

Confidentiality and privacy are demanded for medical and mental health professionals. Psychologists and therapists live by the Eth...

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...

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...

Case of Conjoined Twins Mary and Jodie

judge did indeed have the right. I happen to think that the parents of these children were acting irresponsibly. There is no que...

Terminal Condition and Informing Patients 2

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

Male and Female Circumcision

Female circumcision, almost unknown in Western cultures, is mainly found...

Emergent and Reemergent Infectious Diseases

pathogen (National Institutes of Health, 1999). The most concerning infectious agents are those that are both highly contagious ...

Athletic Competitions and Allowing Anabolic Steroids

Today, many young people are experimenting with steroids. A study done by Blue Cross and Blue Shield found that about 1 million a...

Acute Care Facility and Polypharmacy Responsibility

is properly prescribed and that the patient is aware of any potential difficulties. First, what is polypharmacy and what are its p...

Five Questions on Medical Law

himself to be placed in charge of Thompsons case, he assumed the responsibility of having all adequate medical knowledge to pursue...

Stem Cells Research Use and Business Ethics

cells under specific condition, hence their presence in embryos and foetuses, they develop into whatever cells are required for th...

DNR Orders Ethical Dilemma

to the physician to impart his personal morality upon a woman who is grappling with the final phase of her life and does not want ...

Overview of Needlestick Injuries Among Health Care Workers

infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) as well as the hepatitis B virus. Of health care workers infected with HCV, "85% become ch...

Social and Medical Perspectives on Dying

would be no point where it would be judged morally justified to harvest viable organs from donors (Browne, 1983). It often gives c...

Sponsorship of the Olympics and Social Issues

main advantage to sponsoring sports events is that the sponsorship can and should be used as a "catalyst for building corporate im...

Software Development and Ethics

desire to increase revenue to allow further development and facilitate increased benefits to the users. The errors may not be as s...

A Review of the Article 'Parent behavior and child distress during urethral catherization'

is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...

Strategies to Diversify in Medical Education

This paper has several related sections: argument for diversifying products and services of medical university, possibility of ent...

Hospital Standard vs. Policy

This research paper concerns the difference between policy and standards, with special focus on an example from St. Joseph Medical...

The Case of Tyrell Dueck

This essay pertains to the case of Tyrell Dueck, a Canadian boy whose parents refused traditional medical treatment on this behalf...

Assessing Ethics in Research

has been demonstrated to increase as the patients own baseline in terms of their general irritability and hostility increases, and...

Technology, Mother Nature, and Ethics

term, or hire a human incubator, or go through various forms of testing and treatments to try to conceive a baby naturally, but so...

Stem Cell Research: Argument Against

of medical advancement that purports to save lives, the necessary research requires the taking of other lives, which presents a di...

Guidelines and Principles of Medical Ethics

must not vary according to culture, race, or socioeconomic status. The scenario presented above, however, is replete with ethical ...

Questions On Medical Ethics

further examined by comparing the moral reasoning with the stages laid down by Piaget, with more complex and mature reasoning only...

Health Care and Ethical Decision Making

Health ("Right", 2011). From an ethical perspective, one might also invoke the Kantian deontological theory of ethics to explore w...

Refusal of Care: The Ethical Dimensions

refers to instances in which patients who have been admitted to a health care facility decide to refuse treatment from doctors (Lo...

The Utilization of Four Ethical Theories

We all make ethical decisions every day but there are there are times when we are challenged with an ethical dilemma. In business,...