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Fish welfare in a changing world: New developments and current challenges

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The welfare of non‐human animals is central to ethical discussions on animal use, with increasing attention to fish welfare across research, aquaria, aquaculture, and fisheries. This paper reviews current theoretical approaches to animal welfare and recent advances in defining and assessing fish welfare since the seminal paper by Huntingford ...
Sonia Rey Planellas, João L. Saraiva, Eliane Gonçalves‐de‐Freitas, Pablo Arechavala‐Lopez, Bernice Bovenkerk, Michael Breen, Steven J. Cooke, Martin Føre, Lene Northwood, Lars Helge Stien, Sunil Kadri, Chris Noble, Jonatan Nilsson, Fernando Rodriguez, Cosme Salas, Peter Sandøe, Hans van de Vis   +16 more
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Problem uporczywej terapii w świetle filozofii człowieka

Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2009
The problem of medical futility, which combines the issues of euthanasia, is one of the most difficult matter of medical ethics. The theraphy becomes futile when a patient is in an agonizing state and none of the extraordinary actions can restore the ...
Kazimierz Szałata
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Understanding the Meaning of a Good Death for People Living With Parkinson's Disease: Qualitative Study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder globally. Despite growing attention to palliative care in Parkinson's disease, little is known about what constitutes a “good death” from the perspective of people living with Parkinson's disease (PLwPD).
Leonardo Martins, Rasa Mikelyte, Ricardo Silva Carvalho, Henrique Ballalai Ferraz, Déborah Oliveira, Julia Maria Vanelli, Natália Rocha Tardelli, Fernanda Bono Fukushima, Edison Iglesias de Oliveira Vidal   +8 more
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An Ethical Review of Euthanasia and Physician-assisted Suicide

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2017
Background: In the majority of countries, active direct euthanasia is a forbidden way of the deprivation of the patients’ life, while its passive form is commonly accepted.
Božidar BANOVIĆ, Veljko TURANJANIN, Anđela MILORADOVIĆ   +2 more
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The Experience of Care in People With Palliative Needs and Their Families: A Qualitative Metasynthesis

Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To synthesise and reinterpret qualitative evidence on how people with palliative care needs and their family caregivers experience the care process. Background Palliative care aims to provide holistic, person‐ and family‐centred care.
Ana Gil Méndez, Caterina Checa Jiménez, Ingrid Bullich Marín, Laura Navarrete Reyes, Carolina Watson Badia, Nina Granel Gimenez, Lídia Ribera Barberan, Mireia Subirana Casacuberta, Juan M. Leyva‐Moral   +8 more
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Euthanasia: would elderly people from socio-economic classes D/E perform it or allow it on their relatives?

Kairós Gerontologia, 2014
75 opinions from elderly people of low socioeconomic classes living in a specific community were investigated, about whether they would allow euthanasia to be performed on family members. 77.3% wouldn't perform euthanasia.
Diego Fraga Rezende, Gabriela Nunes Oliveira, Lucy Gomes Vianna, Izabel Borges dos Santos   +3 more
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Planned Approach and Implementation of Pharmacology Teaching in the Bachelor's Veterinary Nursing Programme in Sweden

Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Veterinary Nurses play a key role in handling drugs and perform medication treatments, thus pharmacological knowledge is essential. The veterinary nurses' role varies widely worldwide but does not include the prescription of drugs. Nevertheless, pharmacology is a complex subject within veterinary nursing education and for the registered ...
Lena Olsén, Ann‐Christin Blomkvist
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“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
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Passive Euthanasia and the Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapy in the Sociocultural Discourses of Western Countries and Russia: a Historical and Philosophical Analysis

Общая реаниматология
Passive euthanasia and the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (LST) in modern Russian practice are normatively indistinguishable, leading to ethical, legal, and clinical-practical conflicts for intensive care physicians and increasing the moral ...
R. E. Tarabrin
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Influence of intra‐articular injectate volume on joint surface coverage and leakage following canine elbow arthroscopy: A cadaveric study

Veterinary Surgery, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective To determine whether reduced intra‐articular (IA) injection volumes provide complete synovial surface coverage while minimizing leakage following canine elbow arthroscopy. Study design Randomized cadaveric study. Animals Forty elbow joints from 20 canine cadavers weighing >15 kg.
Erin Smith, Sarah Stark, Shelby Boyton, Wanda Gordon‐Evans   +3 more
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