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CONCEPTUAL, LEGAL, AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE: AN OVERVIEW

UUM Journal of Legal Studies
Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) remains a contentious and highly debated topic within medical, legal, and ethical spheres. The complex issue of (PAS) raises significant inquiries regarding patient autonomy and societal norms. Ambiguities in conceptual,
Nehaluddin Ahmad, Ahmad Masum, Aqilah Walin Ali   +2 more
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Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Sweetness in Bitterness

Interdisciplinary Journal on Law, Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023
In this paper, a review of the concepts of euthanasia and assisted suicide is conducted. It begins by describing the historical trends from the beginning of the 20th century to the modern-day view.
Victoria Ajibola Adeleke
doaj   +1 more source

Assisted Suicide

, 2015
Assisted suicide is a highly controversial practice and illegal in most jurisdictions around the world, although the number of countries that have decriminalized it is increasing. Public debates as well as legislative proposals and court judgments are often confounded by a failure to carefully distinguish assisted suicide from other end-of-life ...
openaire   +1 more source

“Someday, I'll be an ancestor:” Understanding indigenous intergenerational connectedness through qualitative research to inform measure development

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Intergenerational connectedness broadly encompasses relations among humans, lands, and all living and spiritual beings, and functions as an important part of Indigenous well‐being. Many public health campaigns and interventions aim to promote connectedness to support holistic wellness and reduce health inequities. Currently, however, there are
Victoria M. O'Keefe, Tara L. Maudrie, Fiona Grubin, Miigis B. Gonzalez, Jessica Saniguq Ullrich, Maria Crouch, Evan White, Monica M. Desjardins, Lisa Martin, Melissa Lewis, Mary HorseChief, Angela Fernandez, Angelina Phoebe Keryte, Melissa L. Walls   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Natural History and Diagnostic Findings in an Adult Man Diagnosed With Attenuated Krabbe Disease

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Krabbe disease (KD), or globoid cell leukodystrophy, is a rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder caused by a deficiency in galactocerebrosidase (GALC), leading to psychosine (galactosylsphingosine) accumulation and myelin damage.
Eamon P. McCarron, Andrew Oldham, Amit Herwadkar, Sarah Jenkinson, Christopher Campbell, Kate Neal, Heather J. Church, James A. Cooper, Karolina M. Stepien   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Potential New Expression Biomarkers for Anorexia Nervosa

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a psychiatric disorder with an estimated heritability of around 70%. Although the largest meta‐analysis of genome‐wide association studies on AN identified independent risk‐conferring loci for the disorder, the molecular mechanisms underlying the genetic basis of AN remain to be elucidated.
Camille Verebi, Nicolas Lebrun, Justine Vily Petit, Odile Viltart, Philibert Duriez, Benjamin Saint‐Pierre, Philip Gorwood, Nicolas Ramoz, Thierry Bienvenu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Increase in assisted suicide in Switzerland: did the socioeconomic predictors change? Results from the Swiss National Cohort

BMJ Open, 2018
Objective To determine whether the strong increase in assisted suicides in Switzerland since 2008 is linked to a shift in the socioeconomic factors associated with assisted suicide and its related diagnoses.Methods In a population-based longitudinal ...
Marcel Zwahlen, Nicole Steck, Christoph Junker   +2 more
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The Role of AI in Peer Support for Young People: A Study of Preferences for Human- and AI-Generated Responses [PDF]

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is integrated into everyday technology, including news, education, and social media. AI has further pervaded private conversations as conversational partners, auto-completion, and response suggestions. As social media becomes young people's main method of peer support exchange, we need to understand when and how ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Identification of Transdiagnostic Childhood Externalizing Pathology Within an Electronic Medical Records Database and Application to the Analysis of Rare Copy Number Variation

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Externalizing traits and behaviors are broadly defined by impairments in self‐regulation and impulse control that typically begin in childhood and adolescence. Externalizing behaviors, traits, and symptoms span a range of traditional psychiatric diagnostic categories.
India A. Reddy, Lide Han, Sandra Sanchez‐Roige, Maria Niarchou, Douglas M. Ruderfer, Lea K. Davis   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating the burden of disease attributable to non-assisted suicide in Switzerland from 2009 to 2021: a secondary data analysis

Swiss Medical Weekly
CONTEXT AND GOAL: This research addresses the issue of suicide and attempted suicide, which have a significant impact on global premature mortality and disability.
Annora Mack, Sarah Rajkumar, Jacob Kofler, Kaspar Wyss   +3 more
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