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The request for assisted suicide – a challenging topic to teach in medical education. Project report on a compulsory elective course at the Aachen University Hospital

open access: yesGMS Journal for Medical Education
Aim: As part of the Erasmus+ project “ELPIS”, a compulsory elective course in palliative medicine on handling wishes to die and the desire for suicide was put into place and offered for the first time at the Clinic for Palliative Medicine at RWTH Aachen ...
Scherg, Alexandra   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assisted Suicide Heads to Colorado

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2017
While the outcome of our recent election cycle has represented a country with polarized viewpoints of America’s future policies, one ballot initiative has emerged as a force of consensus.
Tyler Cosmer
doaj   +1 more source

Physician-Assisted Suicide: State Legislation Teetering at the Pinnacle of a Slippery Slope

open access: yes, 1998
Physician-assisted suicide has become the subject of a hotly contested legal and political debate, both in the United States and abroad. In 1997, the United States Supreme Court rendered two decisions concerning physician-assisted suicide, and two states
Park, Eunice
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Exploring new avenues: Psychedelic‐assisted therapy for young people

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Rates of mental illness in young people are increasing, whereas the development of novel mental health treatments has not significantly progressed. Psychedelic‐assisted therapy, using substances such as psilocybin and 3,4‐methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), has shown potential in the treatment of mental illnesses in the adult population, including ...
Ioanna Artemis Vamvakopoulou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Language Lost in MAiD

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Bioethics
For most of Canada’s approximately 40-year debate on medically assisted death, euthanasia and assisted suicide were considered distinct issues. Yet in 2016 their ethical, psychological, and practical differences were effectively disregarded when the two
Rafal Gromadzki, Timothy Christie
doaj   +1 more source

Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
wiley   +1 more source

Healing a Broken System: Veterans and the War on Drugs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This report examines the plight of returning veterans who struggle with incarceration and psychological wounds of war such as addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder -- and suggests reforms that could improve the health and preserve the freedom of ...

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‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Targeting neutrophil extracellular traps in metabolic and immune niche: Nanomaterials for diabetes tissue regeneration

open access: yesBMEMat, EarlyView.
The effects of NETs on regeneration of various diabetic tissues, and strategies targeting NETs for diabetes tissue regeneration. In the diabetic environment, NETs undergo complex metabolic and immune reprogramming, leading to dynamic changes in antibacterial and proinflammatory functions, and affecting regeneration of multiple systemic tissues.
Xinyi Jiang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Suicide assistance in Germany: A protocol for a multi-perspective qualitative study to explore the current practice.

open access: yesPLoS ONE
BackgroundSuicide assistance is as a complex process comprising a series of stages, ranging from initial consultations with patients about end-of-life options to counselling bereaved family members.
Sven Schwabe   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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