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Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide

open access: yesAnnals of Medicine, 1999
In the Netherlands there are about 9700 explicit requests for euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide (EAS) each year, of which approximately 3600 are granted. Other countries have criticized the Dutch policy concerning EAS. It has been suggested that palliative care in the Netherlands is not adequate and that euthanasia is often requested by patients
A. P. M. Heintz, N. B. Swarte
openaire   +3 more sources

A Participatory Approach to Enhance Screening System for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorder in Critical Care Settings

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders are common obstetric complications. Caregivers of infants in neonatal intensive care units and those visiting paediatric emergency departments experience a significantly higher risk of these disorders, with up to 45% screening positive for depressive symptoms in the neonatal intensive care unit and 27% in ...
Fatima Sadjadpour   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oregon Emergency Physicians' Experiences with, Attitudes toward, and Concerns about Physician‐assisted Suicide [PDF]

open access: bronze, 1996
Terri A. Schmidt   +6 more
openalex   +1 more source

The Interactional Pathways of Mass Killings: Toward a Novel Understanding of Rampage School Shootings

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Rampage school shootings, where students go to their own school to randomly kill classmates, teachers, friends, and strangers, are among the most drastic types of human behavior. While research increasingly points to interaction dynamics as being key for the emergence of crime and violence, scholars have not yet systematically studied interaction ...
Anne Nassauer
wiley   +1 more source

Ethical Issues: Assisted Suicide Upheld [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
EssayThe ethical controversy invited by legally allowing physician assisted suicide is a familiar and complex one in which personal rights, states' rights, professional obligation, and the federal government's sense of global obligation to protect human ...
Fleming, David A.
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Rehumanizing Higher Education: Fostering Humanity in the Era of Machine Learning

open access: yesNew Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have raised contentious questions and spawned divided opinions regarding the future of education. The polarization it brings to the academy seems to be breaking between the soft and hard disciplines and is reminiscent of the Science Wars of the 1990s. This chapter highlights the philosophical
Joseph Carver, Samba Bah
wiley   +1 more source

How the political elite make decisions

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract The political elite make policy decisions in noisy environments and under time pressure, and so are prone to using heuristics. There are conflicting schools of thought as to whether it is appropriate for them to do so. Experienced decision‐makers are thought to be more effective at using heuristics, so it is possible that for the political ...
Conor Wynn, Liam Smith, Catherine Killen
wiley   +1 more source

Planning for the End of Life for People with Dementia - Part 2 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This publication is a discussion about additional end-of-life options which may become legally available at some time in the future, i.e., assisted death (usually called euthanasia or assisted suicide).
Colleen Cartwright
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