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Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 2018 Two recent contributions to this journal discuss a challenge to Stanford's time-lapse embryo monitoring patent, currently before the European Patent Office (EPO). Sterckx, Cockbain and Pennings (2017) would like to keep the morphokinetics of embryo division in the public domain; they argue that time-lapse monitoring (TLM) is a diagnostic method in the ...
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Making the Invisible Visible: Inviting Persons with Disabilities into the Life of the Church [PDF]
, 2018 Christianity espouses the dignity of all humanity and professes welcome for all to the communion of saints. Yet people with disabilities, especially those with more severe or profound physical or psychological disabilities, are largely invisible inside ...
Carlson, Mary E.
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Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2019 Background Emergency department (ED) visits after hospital discharge may reflect failure of transition of care to the outpatient setting. Reduction of postdischarge ED utilization represents an opportunity for quality improvement and cost reduction.
Jordan A Weinberg +8 more
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Learning Post-Stroke Gait Training Strategies by Modeling Patient-Therapist Interaction
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2023 For safe and effective robot-aided gait training, it is essential to incorporate the knowledge and expertise of physical therapists. Toward this goal, we directly learn from physical therapists’ demonstrations of manual gait assistance in stroke ...
Seyed Mostafa Rezayat Sorkhabadi +7 more
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Palliative and Supportive Care, 2003 In a recent British Medical Journal editorial, Ruth Macklin pronounced that dignity is “a useless concept in medical ethics and can be eliminated without any loss of content” (Macklin, 2003). The published responses offered a unanimous, firm rebuttal, arguing that dignity is somehow foundational to all we do, or ought to be doing, within the ...
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The Rule of Law and Human Dignity: Reexamining Fuller’s Canons [PDF]
, 2010 Lon Fuller offered an analysis of the rule of law in the form of eight ‘canons’ of lawmaking. He argued (1) that these canons constitute a ‘procedural natural law’, as distinct from traditional ‘substantive’ natural law; but also (2) that lawmaking ...
Luban, David
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Human Dignity, Humiliation, and Torture [PDF]
, 2009 Modern human rights instruments ground human rights in the concept of human dignity, without providing an underlying theory of human dignity. This paper examines the central importance of human dignity, understood as not humiliating people, in ...
Luban, David
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Torture, 2019 Background: Sleep deprivation is a prevalent method of psychological torture. However, difficulties in documentation have meant that it is not adequately appreciated by courts and other quasijudicial institutions such as UN treaty bodies.
Ergün Cakal
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Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2020 Background The maltreatment of people with mental illness in Ghana's traditional and faith-based healing centres, including shackling, flogging, and forced fasting, has been documented by numerous sources.
Jessica E. Lambert +6 more
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Dignity, Self-Respect, and Bloodless Invasions [PDF]
, 2017 In Chapter 7, “Dignity, Self-Respect, and Bloodless Invasions”, Saba Bazargan-Forward asks How much violence can we impose on those attempting to politically subjugate us?
Bazargan-Forward, Saba
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