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Voluntary active euthanasia: Is there a place for it in modern day medicine?

open access: yesSouth African Family Practice, 2008
This article discusses various ethical and legal concepts regarding euthanasia and includes concepts like physician assisted suicide, assisted suicide, voluntary active euthanasia, killing vs. letting die, indirect euthanasia and terminal sedation.
Gboyega A. Ogunbanjo   +1 more
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Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia: Why the Difference in Attitude?

open access: yesNursing Ethics, 1995
It appears that the attitudes of health professionals differ towards suicide and voluntary active euthanasia. An acceptance of, if not an agreement with, voluntary active eutha nasia exists, while there is a general consensus that suicide should be prevented. This paper searches for a working definition of suicide, to discover ethical
Beech, Ian
openaire   +3 more sources

Active Voluntary Euthanasia or Physician‐Assisted Suicide?

open access: yesJournal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1997
OBJECTIVE: To find out why Dutch general practitioners (GPs) and nursing home physicians (NHPs), and patients (according to their physician) opt for active voluntary euthanasia rather than for physician‐assisted suicide, or vice‐versa. DEFINITIONS:
B D, Onwuteaka-Philipsen   +4 more
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Hospice nurses' attitudes on active voluntary euthanasia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Active voluntary euthanasia is one of the most controversial issues in the nursing and legal systems today. The purpose of this study was to explore hospice nurses\u27 attitudes on active voluntary euthanasia (AVE).
Godfrey, Belinda Arjona
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UK geriatricians' attitudes to active voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted death [PDF]

open access: yesAge and Ageing, 2001
To describe the views of British geriatricians on active voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted death.Postal questionnaire to 742 consultant members of the British Geriatrics Society.81% considered active voluntary euthanasia never to be justified ethically, although 23% supported legalization in some situations and 13% would be willing to ...
D, Clark   +5 more
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Bioethics and Political Ideology: The Case of Active Voluntary Euthanasia

open access: yesBioethics, 1997
In different countries responses to important bioethical issues are different, as exemplified by the attitudes towards the voluntary and active forms of medical euthanasia. But why is this the case? My suggestion is that the roots of the variety are, to a considerable degree, ideological.The most important present‐day political ideologies all have ...
Hayry, Heta
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Legal aspects of active voluntary euthanasia in Australia

open access: yes, 1993
This thesis examines the present criminal law position with respect to medically administered active voluntary euthanasia in Australia. Under existing criminal law principles, whilst there is some scope for passive euthanasia, active volunta.rY euthanasia is treated as murder and no account is taken of the special circumstances existing in such cases ...
Otlowski, Margaret (15940988)
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Voluntary exercise mitigates the effects of peri-adolescent social isolation on emotion recognition and the oxytocinergic system in male mice. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Neuroendocrinol
Abstract Social isolation, particularly during adolescence, is known to affect cognitive, emotional, and social behaviors as well as brain modulatory systems such as the hypothalamic oxytocinergic system. Interestingly, recent evidence indicates that exercise can exert beneficial effects on behaviors through the activation of the oxytocinergic system ...
Van Loveren E   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Barriers to Utilizing Non-replacement Male Calves in the Australian Dairy Industry: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Male non-replacement calves in dairy systems represent an underutilized economic resource for dairy producers worldwide. Despite this, increasing the practice of rearing non-replacement male calves has significant barriers both in on-farm adoption and ...
Veronika Vicic   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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