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Should Healthcare Professionals Respect Autonomy Just Because It Promotes Welfare?
, 2009 Respect for autonomy is an important moral principle within medical ethics. However, the question of whether the normative importance of respect for autonomy is derived from other moral principles (such as welfare) or has independent moral value is ...
Molyneux, David H.
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Isolated rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) is a prodromal state for Lewy body disorders and exhibits biological heterogeneity that may influence clinical expression and progression. We examined clinical features in individuals with iRBD and biomarker‐defined synucleinopathy.
Daniel Weintraub +24 more
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Sensors, 2016 The last decade has witnessed an increased interest in physical systems controlled over wireless networks (networked control systems). These systems allow the computation of control signals via processors that are not attached to the physical systems ...
Ali Albattat +2 more
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A clash of traditions? An investigation into judicial interpretations of autonomy in ethically-contentious medical cases [PDF]
The concept of autonomy has acquired paramount status in English medical law, medical ethics and philosophy. Using the methodology of grounded theory, and three iterative cycles of enquiry of the medical law reports and the literature, this thesis ...
Bratton, M. Q. (Mark Q.)
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) caused by sharp‐force penetration is exceptionally rare, and the use of high‐dose methylprednisolone (MP) remains highly controversial, especially beyond the conventional 8‐h treatment window. This case report describes a 30‐year‐old male with acute incomplete TSCI following a knife stab wound to the right ...
Honghong Wang +5 more
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Informed Consent and Respect for Autonomy
In this thesis I examine the medical concept of informed consent and the philosophical concept of autonomy in conjunction with the relationship between them. This examination is complicated because autonomy can refer to decisions or persons.
Scott, John
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Pregnancy, autonomy and paternalism.
, 1999 Modern medicine is increasingly aware of the significance of patient autonomy in making treatment choices. This would seem to be particularly important where the therapy requested was "voluntary" as in fertility treatment or cosmetic surgery.
G M Lockwood, Lockwood, Gillian M.
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Movement Disorders in Aicardi–Goutières Syndrome and Response to Immunomodulation
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study characterizes movement disorders and treatment responses in seven children with Aicardi–Goutières syndrome (AGS). We retrospectively evaluated motor phenotypes, neuroimaging, and interferon signatures in patients treated with baricitinib or anifrolumab. Spasticity affected all patients, while dystonia was present in 4/7.
Enrique Gonzalez Saez‐Diez +10 more
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Autonomy,Genius,and the Sublime
, 2003 There has long been a link acknowledged between human autonomy and works of artistic genius, sublime works which are recognised as being somehow divine in nature. It is the purpose of this paper to study this link.
デュカウスキー, トム +3 more
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Women's Reproductive Autonomy: Medicalisation and Beyond
, 2006 Reproductive autonomy is central to women's welfare both because childbearing takes place in women's bodies and because they are generally expected to take primary responsibility for child rearing.
Purdy, L.
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