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Growing up with cancer: A qualitative study of the impact of cancer on the experience of growing up
Published 2012-01-01
Because more young people are surviving cancer than ever before, more young people than ever before are living with the physical, psychological, emotional and social consequences of cancer illness and treatment. They do ...
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Intellectual Disability and Society
Published 2012-01-01
The aim of this thesis is to outline the story of intellectual disability from a medical perspective as experienced by the author during more than 40 years working in the NSW Health system. Most of the writing over the ...
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Animals-as-patients: improving the practice of animal experimentation
Published 2012-01-01
In this paper we propose a new way of conceptualizing animals in experimentation – the animal-as-patient. Construing and treating animals as patients offers a way of successfully addressing some of the entrenched epistemological ...
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Journalists' views about reporting avian influenza and a potential pandemic: a qualitative study
Published 2012-01-01
Background: The mass media is a key component of any public communication strategy for influenza or other respiratory illnesses, but coverage can be variable. In this study we explored the factors that influenced journalists’ ...
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Bioethics
Published 2012-01-01
Public health has made enormous contributions to global health through policies and interventions. However, public health measures have also increased human suffering through policies of forcedsterilization, mandatory ...
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Colorectal cancer screening: Why immunochemical fecal occult blood tests may be the best option
Published 2012-01-01
Abstract Background:There are many test options available for colorectal cancer screening. The choice of test relates to the objectives of those offering or considering screening. Discussion:While all screening programs ...
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Clinical Ethics Committee Case 17: A paramedic sustains a bite while attending a callout. The assailant refuses testing for HIV or Hepatitis C: what should we do?
Published 2012-01-01
Helen works as a paramedic for an NHS Ambulance Trust that serves a medium-sized city. She attends a huge variety of incidents in the course of her work; including those arise from excessive consumption of alcohol. On ...
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Meaning and value in medical school curricula
Published 2012-01-01
Rationale, aims and objectives: Bioethics and professionalism are standard subjects in medical training programs, and these curricula reflect particular representations of meaning and practice. It is important that these ...
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VALUES-BASED MEDICINE AND MODEST FOUNDATIONALISM
Published 2012-01-01
Values-based medicine can be interpreted in economic terms as the medicine that delivers the most benefit for a given cost. But values have another meaning in philosophy. They refer to the basic commitments that justify ...
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The ethical commitments of health promotion practitioners: an empirical study from New South Wales, Australia
Published 2012-01-01
In this article, we provide a description of the good in health promotion. This description comes from an empirical study of health promotion practices in New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia. Through ...
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