Medical students’ and residents’ views on euthanasia [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2023 Background Doctors are increasingly faced with end-of-life decisions. Little is known about how medical students approach euthanasia. The objective of this study was to evaluate, among medical students and residents, the view on euthanasia and its ...
Rogério Aparecido Dedivitis +5 more
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Attitudes of undergraduate medical students towards end-of-life decisions: a systematic review of influencing factors [PDF]
BMC Medical EducationBackground Medical end-of-life decisions, including voluntary active euthanasia (lethal injection), (physician-)assisted dying (prescribing lethal substances), passive euthanasia (refraining from or ceasing life-sustaining treatments), palliative ...
Julia S. Grundnig +4 more
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When the cause of death does not exist: time for the WHO to close the ICD classification gap for Medical Aid in Dying [PDF]
EClinicalMedicine, 2023 Summary: Medical aid in dying (MAID) is a highly controversial ethical issue in the global medical community. Unfortunately, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) of the World Health Organization (WHO) lacks coding for MAID.
Uwe Güth +4 more
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Disparity in attitudes regarding assisted dying among physicians and the general public in Japan [PDF]
BMC Medical EthicsBackground Recently, an increasing number of countries have been allowing voluntary active euthanasia (VAE) and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) as part of palliative care.
Yoshiyuki Takimoto, Tadanori Nabeshima
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Attitudes Toward Active Voluntary Euthanasia Among Community-Dwelling Older Subjects [PDF]
SAGE Open, 2018 The major extension of late-life expectancy has increased the significance of end-of-life issues, particularly among elderly people, considering both the role of medical practices in shaping and defining dying trajectories and the differences in national
Stefano Poli
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The attitude of Tunisian medicine resident toward euthanasia [PDF]
European PsychiatryIntroduction Euthanasia is the active deliberate ending of life by another person at the explicit request of a patient who is suffering from an incurable condition deemed unbearable by him or her.young doctors in tunisia might be exposed in their daily ...
A. Touiti, C. Ben Said, N. Bram
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Euthanasia and faith-based aged-care organisations: The right not to kill?
Church, Communication and Culture, 2023 In this paper we focus on an important specific issue which has not received serious attention in the scholarly literature on euthanasia, namely, that of the coercive imposition (by way of sanction-backed regulations) of the practice of voluntary active ...
Seumas Miller, Virginia Miller
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Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2021 The current, utilitarian debate on the relation between euthanasia and happiness focusses primarily on the subject of dying patients. Where some utilitarians stress how euthanasia may relieve suffering in the process of dying, others emphasize the ...
Donovan van der Haak
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An Operating Principle of the Cerebral Cortex, and a Cellular Mechanism for Attentional Trial-and-Error Pattern Learning and Useful Classification Extraction [PDF]
Front. Neural Circuits 18:1280604 (2024), 2023 A feature of the brains of intelligent animals is the ability to learn to respond to an ensemble of active neuronal inputs with a behaviorally appropriate ensemble of active neuronal outputs. Previously, a hypothesis was proposed on how this mechanism is implemented at the cellular level within the neocortical pyramidal neuron: the apical tuft or ...
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Effects of Dynamic-Win-Stay-Lose-Learn model with voluntary participation in social dilemma [PDF]
, 2021 In recent years, Win-Stay-Lose-Learn rule has attracted wide attention as an effective strategy updating rule, and voluntary participation is proposed by introducing a third strategy in Prisoner's dilemma game. Some researches show that combining Win-Stay-Lose-Learn rule with voluntary participation could promote cooperation more significantly under ...
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