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A New Way To Die

University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine, 2015
A review of the recent Supreme Court decision regarding assisted-suicide.
Laura Forrest
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Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
wiley   +1 more source

Social, cultural and experiential patterning of attitudes and behaviour towards assisted suicide in Switzerland: evidence from a national population-based study

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020
Switzerland has the longest history of the legal practice of non-physician assisted suicide of any country. Assisted suicide is not very tightly regulated in Switzerland, and almost all assisted suicides are supported by a right-to-die organisation ...
Sarah Vilpert, Elio Bolliger, Carmen Borrat-Besson, Gian Domenico Borasio, Jürgen Maurer   +4 more
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Conscience, Referral, and Physician Assisted Suicide

, 1993
Practices such as physician assisted suicide, even if legal, engender a range of moral conflicts to which many are oblivious. A recent proposal for physician assisted suicide provides an example by calling upon physicians opposed to suicide to refer ...
Wildes, Kevin Wm., Wildes, Kevin William
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Immigration detention centers as torturing environments: Ethical reckonings, radical refusals, and implications for a psychology of resistance

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito, Federica de Cordova, Julia Manek, Sara Buckingham, Camilla Ponti, Francesco Tommasi, Bradley Olson   +6 more
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Faith and Reason and Physician-Assisted Suicide

, 1998
Aquinas's conception of the relationship of faith and reason calls into question the arguments and some of the conclusions advanced in contributions to the debate on physician-assisted suicide by David Thomasma and H. Tristram Engelhardt.
Kaczor, Christopher
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Genetic Variation in ADHD‐Related Risk Genes in an Indigenous Population of the Amazon

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Attention‐Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder; however, its genetic architecture remains poorly explored in Indigenous populations. This study aimed to analyze and characterize genetic variation in 11 genes (ADGRL3, CDH8, DCC, DUSP6, FOXP1, FOXP2, MEF2C, PCDH7, SEMA6D, SORCS3, and ST3GAL3 ...
Hirlesson Paixão de Matos, Natasha Monte, Kaio Evandro Cardoso Aguiar, Rita de Cássia Calderaro, Aline Pasquini Santos, Juliana Carla Gomes Rodrigues, André Maurício Ribeiro‐Dos‐Santos, Sandro José De Souza, Ândrea Ribeiro‐Dos‐Santos, João Farias Guerreiro, Sidney Emanuel Batista Dos Santos, Ney Pereira Carneiro Dos Santos   +11 more
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Euthanasia: The conceptualization of the problem and important distinctions [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2013
The aim of this work is twofold. On the one hand, the intention is to provide analysis of the issue of euthanasia. On the other hand, this approach necessarily leads to a discussion toward the provision of an adequate definition of euthanasia ...
Đerić Milijana
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Preoperative Risk Factors for Opioid Use Predict Self‐Reported Health and Function Up to 6 Months After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Arthroscopy, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation, EarlyView.
Purpose To identify risk factors that predict the need for rescue opioid use and patient‐reported outcomes following an opioid‐limiting postoperative analgesia protocol after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Methods This prospective cohort study recruited 44 patients undergoing primary arthroscopic‐assisted anterior cruciate ligament ...
Eric V. Neufeld, William DeGouveia, Camille Pinpin, Matthew Zinner, Michael J. Sayegh, Michael J. Meade, Steven E. Rokito   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Advance Request: The Accessibility of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) for Patients Who Loose Decision-Making Capacity

University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine, 2021
Since the legalization of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada in 2016, there have been discussions regarding the extension of this service to patients who lose decision-making capacity but have made a prior advance request for physician-assisted
Natasha Harris
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