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The Person and the Challenges, 2015 Greater human longevity is one of the biggest achievements of medicine. Timely medical interventions save countless human lives. But some of them, especially those undertaken in the face of imminent death, often generate serious
Marian Machinek
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Overriding Parental Decision to Withhold Treatment [PDF]
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2003 Physicians are obligated in many jurisdictions to perform life-sustaining treatments on premature infants with serious developmental or physical impairments, even if it goes against the parents' wishes. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
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“Best interests” and withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from an adult who lacks capacity in the parens patriae jurisdiction [PDF]
, 2014 Disputes about withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment are increasingly coming before Australian Supreme Courts. Such cases are generally heard in the parens patriae jurisdiction where the test applied is what is in the patient’s “best ...
Smith, Malcolm K. +2 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This review analyzed 241 scholarly articles published between 2010 and 2025 in information science venues to examine how affect shapes refugees' information behavior during forced migration and to identify additional contextual factors. It identifies seven affective dimensions: anxiety, shame and stigma, grief and loss, frustration, (mis)trust,
Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon
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The Outcome of Withholding Pharmacologic Treatment in Children with Acute ITP
Diyala Journal of Medicine, 2019 Background: ITP is a nonthreatening disorder disturbing children at any age but mostly below 5 years. Objective: To evaluate the outcome of children with acute ITP who were not specified with any pharmacologic action and linked with those who were ...
Jalil I Alezzi +2 more
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The oldest old: the newest focus in end-of-life care?
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020 Kenneth Chambaere
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Information science rests on a compact: its mediating signs maintain a traceable relation to what they describe. Large language models (LLMs) break it architecturally, generating discourse that is statistically plausible yet epistemically ungrounded, while standard metrics (precision, recall, relevance) cannot detect the rupture.
Martin Thellefsen, Alon Friedman
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Withholding or withdrawing of medical treatment - historical perspective [PDF]
, 2008 The issues of the ethical evaluation of withholding or withdrawing of medical treatment have been the subject of discussions among doctors, lawmakers, philosophers and theologians for centuries. Historical analyses have shown that there are two prominent
Aszyk, Piotr; Jesuit University of Philosophy and Education Ignatianum in Krakow, The Pontifical Theological Faculty in Warsaw
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Algorithmic platforms are reshaping how people work and how human activity is rendered intelligible within data‐intensive systems. This paper argues that Heidegger's philosophy of technology, specifically Ge‐stell (enframing) and Poiesis (bringing‐forth), offers information science a conceptual vocabulary for understanding both algorithmic ...
Fred Fonseca
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