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Current Literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
Material appearing below is thought to be of particular interest to Linacre Quarterly readers because of its moral, religious, or philosophic content. The medical literature constitutes the primary, but not the sole source of such material.
Catholic Physicians\u27 Guild
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Relevance, Resonance, and Historiography: Interpreting the Lives and Experiences of Civil War Soldiers

open access: yes, 2016
Carmichael shares his experiences of portraying Corporal Bobby Fields at Appomattox Court House National Historical Park in the summer of 1985. He uses Fields as a conduit to explore the scholarship pertaining to the common soldier of the Civil War and ...
Carmichael, Peter S.
core   +1 more source

Comparing isoflurane and desflurane: A prospective randomised blinded clinical trial in horses undergoing elective surgery

open access: yesVeterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The recovery period is associated with the greatest risk of injury for horses undergoing anaesthesia. Recovery quality and duration can be influenced by the volatile agent. Methods This prospective, randomised blinded clinical investigation recruited 101 healthy client‐owned horses undergoing elective surgery at one UK equine ...
Kate White, John Hird, Polly Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesRevista 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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gsbDesign: An R Package for Evaluating the Operating Characteristics of a Group Sequential Bayesian Design

open access: yesJournal of Statistical Software, 2016
The R package gsbDesign provides functions to evaluate the operating characteristics of Bayesian group sequential clinical trial designs. More specifically, we consider clinical trials with interim analyses, which compare a treatment with a control, and ...
Florian Gerber, Thomas Gsponer
doaj   +1 more source

A framework for the ethical use of animal‐borne devices in post‐release monitoring following rehabilitation

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Rehabilitation and release contribute to conservation efforts for threatened species. Ensuring that these efforts are effective requires a good understanding of the factors which determine survival and integration of released animals into wild populations.
Jessica Harvey‐Carroll   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Communicating what matters

open access: yes
Journal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Samir S. Shah
wiley   +1 more source

Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe Changer le monde, ferme par ferme : le soin moral de l'audit et le paradoxe des contrôles du bien‐être animal en Europe

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In European animal welfare inspection on farms and at slaughter, inspectors encounter moral challenges that reveal the paradox at the heart of animal welfare. Against the harsh realities of industrial agriculture, not only are their idealized notions of animal wellbeing unrealizable, but inspectors are instrumental in perpetuating standards of welfare ...
Eimear Mc Loughlin
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yes, 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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Biocultural synthesis of adolescence: a roadmap to advance the field Synthèse bioculturelle de l'adolescence : une feuille de route pour faire avancer la recherche

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Adolescence is an expansive, dynamic period within the life course, covering a broad age range (10‐24 years) and a cascade of biological and cultural changes. However, biocultural approaches to adolescence have been less well developed within existing research compared to child and adult counterparts.
Delaney Glass, Emily Emmott
wiley   +1 more source

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