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Ventilação mecânica e obstinação terapêutica ou distanásia, a dialéctica da alta tecnologia em medicina intensiva Mechanical ventilation and medical futility or dysthanasia, the dialectic of high technology in intensive medicine

Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia, 2006
Distanásia ou qualquer um dos seus sinónimos é uma consequência do excesso terapêutico em relação ao prognóstico esperado. A obstinação terapêutica é um dos dilemas éticos mais angustiantes no quotidiano de medicina intensiva, apesar de a sua apreciação ...
Filipe Monteiro
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Nurses’ perception of futile care: A narrative review [PDF]

Journal of Nursing Advances in Clinical Sciences
The continuous medical and health sciences advancement has significantly increased patient survival rates. However, prolonging life without improving its quality in terminally ill patients has become a challenging issue for care providers, particularly ...
Amir Rezaie, Fatemeh Molayi, Maryam Sadat Shaafi, Mojtaba Ghanbari Ghalesar   +3 more
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Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates

The Economic Journal, EarlyView., 2018
The negative consequences of long‐term exposure to particulate pollution are well established but a number of studies find no effect of short‐term exposure on health outcomes. The high correlation of industrial pollutants complicates the estimation of the impact of individual pollutants on health.
Timothy J. Halliday, John Lynham, Áureo de Paula   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book Reviews: Practicing Medicine and Ethics: Integrating Wisdom, Conscience, and Goals of Care [PDF]

, 2017
Book review: - Practicing Medicine and Ethics: Integrating Wisom, Conscience, and Goals of Care, Lauris Christopher Kaldjian. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Best, Megan
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
wiley   +1 more source

Comment on: “Impact of Depth of Invasion in Node‐Negative Oral Tongue Cancer Treated With Surgery Alone”

The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, EarlyView.
Erkan Topkan, Efsun Somay, Ugur Selek
wiley   +1 more source

Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
wiley   +1 more source

The Data Breach Dilemma: Proactive Solutions for Protecting Consumers’ Personal Information [PDF]

, 2018
Data breaches are an increasingly common part of consumers’ lives. No institution is immune to the possibility of an attack. Each breach inevitably risks the release of consumers’ personally identifiable information and the strong possibility of identity
Marcus, Daniel J.
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source