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Religious Perspectives on Euthanasia: A Comparative Analysis

open access: yesInternational Journal of Body, Mind and Culture, 2023
Background: This article argues the various religious views on euthanasia. After that, a comparison will be done to see where euthanasia is permitted or not.
chintu jain, Azimkhan B. Pathan
doaj   +1 more source

Interrupting the conversation: Donald MacKinnon, wartime tutor of Anscombe, Midgley, Murdoch and Foot

open access: yesJournal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 56, Issue 6, Page 838-850, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch and Philippa Foot all studied at Oxford University during the Second World War. One of their wartime tutors was Donald MacKinnon. This paper gives a broad overview of MacKinnon's philosophical outlook as it was developing at this time. Four talks from between 1938 and 1941—‘And the Son of Man That
Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
wiley   +1 more source

Sharing Pain: Using Pain Domain Transfer for Video Recognition of Low Grade Orthopedic Pain in Horses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Orthopedic disorders are common among horses, often leading to euthanasia, which often could have been avoided with earlier detection. These conditions often create varying degrees of subtle long-term pain. It is challenging to train a visual pain recognition method with video data depicting such pain, since the resulting pain behavior also is subtle ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Legal regulation of the use of euthanasia: Foreign experience and Ukrainian realities

open access: yesЮридичний часопис Національної академії внутрішніх справ, 2021
The purpose of the study is to analyse the legal regulation of the use of euthanasia in foreign countries and to outline the prospects for the introduction of euthanasia in Ukraine.
Tatiana Kulik, Tatiana Mironyuk
doaj   +1 more source

Accommodating religion and belief in healthcare: Political threats, agonistic democracy and established religion

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 15-27, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper considers what concept of accommodation is necessary to identify and address discrimination, disadvantages and disparities in such a way that the plurality of religious people with their beliefs, values and practices may be justly accommodated in healthcare. It evaluates threats to the possibility of such accommodation pertaining by
Joshua Hordern
wiley   +1 more source

Euthanasia: Ethical Challenges of Shift from “Right to Die” to “Objective Decision”

open access: yesAnnals of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (India), 2019
Euthanasia is mercy killing to alleviate the pain and misery of moribund persons. The thought in this regard is “Right to Life” includes “Right to Die.” This paper examines the issue of euthanasia in advanced stage of terminal cases with no possibility ...
Vivek R. Minocha, Arima Mishra
doaj   +1 more source

Egestion rates of microplastic fibres in fish scaled to in situ concentration and fish density

open access: yesFreshwater Biology, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 33-45, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Microplastics (particles <5 mm) are commonly found in aquatic organisms across taxonomic groups and ecosystems. However, the egestion rate of microplastics from aquatic organisms and how egestion rates compare to other rates of microplastic movement in the environment are sparsely documented.
Loren Hou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethical Aspects of Euthanasia. Introduction to the Debate

open access: yesThe Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II, 2019
The subject of the study is the ethical aspects of euthanasia. The framework of the article does not allow for a comprehensive and complex analysis of the issue presented in the title.
Karol Bajda
doaj   +1 more source

A novel strategy for delivering Niemann‐Pick type C2 proteins across the blood–brain barrier using the brain endothelial‐specific AAV‐BR1 virus

open access: yesJournal of Neurochemistry, Volume 164, Issue 1, Page 6-28, January 2023., 2023
Brain endothelial cells (BECs), denoting the blood–brain barrier (BBB), can be specifically transduced both in vitro and in vivo following intravenous administration of the AAV‐BR1 vector, which onsets the synthesis of recombinant NPC2 protein from the BECs.
Charlotte Laurfelt Munch Rasmussen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural considerations at end‐of‐life for people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: A critical interpretative synthesis

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Purpose/Aim To establish cultural considerations for people from culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds at the end‐of‐life in Australia. Background Globally, there is a rapidly increasing proportion of the ageing population, and high levels of migration to Australia, the Australian healthcare community must recognise individualised ...
Elizabeth Lambert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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