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Organ Donation After Medical Aid in Dying: An Ethical Overview

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organ Donation after Medical Aid in Dying (OD‐MAiD) is currently practised in four countries: Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, and Spain. While OD‐MAiD shares some similarities with MAiD (absent the possibility of organ donation) and with standard organ donation protocols, the combination of OD and MAiD involves unique circumstances that ...
David Rodríguez‐Arias, María Victoria Martínez‐López, Luis Espericueta, Gonzalo Díaz‐Cobacho, Jed Adam Gross, Janet Delgado   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Narrative Point of View and Romantic Irony in Melville’s “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids”

, 2023
Shiyuan Zhang
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Medically Assisted Dying Practices: What Role for Clinical Ethicists?

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Medically assisted dying (AD) practices have been legalized in several jurisdictions throughout the world over the last two decades. Because of this increased trend, more individuals now have access to a self‐chosen death. Despite its legalization and the diversity of frameworks governing AD, it remains fraught with ethical challenges. However,
Vanessa Finley‐Roy, Ralf J. Jox, Catherine Perron, Maire‐Eve Bouthillier   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical Ethicists and Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD): Possible Roles and Challenges

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Assisted dying (AD) presents a range of challenges for clinical ethicists (CEs) and healthcare institutions seeking to involve them in its provision. Questions regarding the legitimacy, scope, and nature of CE involvement remain underexplored in the literature.
Vanessa Finley‐Roy, Jan Schildman, Catherine Perron, Marie‐Eve Bouthillier   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

New perspectives on head and neck allometry and ecomorphology in tetrapods

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The skull and neck are vital parts of the body, influencing feeding ecology, habitat exploitation and locomotion. Numerous studies have therefore sought to understand how the size of these segments vary with ecology and scale with overall body size.
Alice E. Maher, Philip G. Cox, Thomas W. Maddox, James D. Gardiner, Karl T. Bates   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Moral Permissibility of Providing Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: An Ethical Framework for Professional Practice

Canadian Journal of Bioethics
Although medical assistance in dying (MAiD) is legally permitted in Canada under defined statutory conditions, this legal framework does not determine when it is morally permissible for a healthcare professional to provide MAiD.
Timothy Christie
doaj   +1 more source

IAP Antagonists Selectively Eliminate Therapy‐Induced Senescent Cancer Cells via TNFα‐Independent Apoptosis

Cancer Science, EarlyView.
Upon chemotherapy, a subset of cancer cells enters a senescent state, referred to as TIS. When IAP antagonists are administered, TIS cells are selectively eliminated through TNFα‐independent apoptosis. TNFα secreted by TIS cancer cells may also act in a paracrine manner to enhance extrinsic apoptosis in neighboring non‐senescent cancer cells.
Hiroaki Ochiiwa, Takeshi Wakasa, Yuki Kataoka, Koji Ando, Eiji Oki, Yoshihiko Maehara, Makoto Iimori, Hiroyuki Kitao   +7 more
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On the topical issue of assisted dying: the insurmountable challenges of human existence, and the right to exit

Frontiers in Public Health
Although the issue of medical-assisted dying or medical aid in dying (MAID, euthanasia, and medical-assisted suicide) has a long history, it has become an increasingly important topic in recent years.
Tobore Onojighofia Tobore
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A Bathroom of One's Own: Intimacies of Austerity and Austerities of Intimacy in Barbara Pym's Fiction

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘I have to share a bathroom’, I had so often murmured, almost with shame, as if I personally had been found unworthy of a bathroom of my own. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952) For a single woman of a certain age, living alone in postwar London, austerity was more than a set of political and economic imperatives.
Charlotte Charteris
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Exploring Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)-Related Grief and Bereavement Through Virtual Digital Storytelling Workshops

International Journal of Qualitative Methods
The purpose of this digital storytelling project, conducted entirely in virtual spaces, was to contribute to an enhanced understanding of the experience of family and friends who have accompanied someone who chose to access medical assistance in dying ...
Keri-Lyn Durant, Katherine Kortes-Miller
doaj   +1 more source