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Medicine in Literature , Physician-Patient Relations , Women's Health , Depression, Postpartum , Female , Humans , Male , Patient Participation , Reading , WritingSubject(s)
Cadaver , Infection Control/methods , Postmortem Changes , Bedding and Linens , Embalming , HumansABSTRACT
This essay comments on the articles by Loretta M. Kopelman and Anita Silvers. It extends their analyses and concludes that consistency and the total absence of conflict may be unavailable when one interprets and applies the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Disabled Persons/legislation & jurisprudence , Health Policy/legislation & jurisprudence , Resource Allocation , Social Justice , Social Values , Activities of Daily Living/classification , Beneficence , Disability Evaluation , Health , Health Care Rationing/legislation & jurisprudence , Health Services Accessibility/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , Oregon , Personal Autonomy , Personnel Selection/legislation & jurisprudence , PrejudiceABSTRACT
The classification of clinical problems, such as AIDS, requires choices. Choices are made on epistemic (i.e., knowledge-based) and non-epistemic (i.e., action-based) grounds. That is, the ways in which we classify clinical problems, such as AIDS, involve a balancing of different understandings of clinical reality and of clinical values among participants of the clinical community. On this view, the interplay between epistemic and non-epistemic interests occurs within the embrace of particular clinical contexts. The ways in which we classify AIDS is the topic of this paper. We consider the extent to which we construct clinical reality; we examine a suggested classification of AIDS; and we conclude suggesting that the choice regarding how to classify AIDS is the result of negotiation among participants in the clinical community.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome , Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/classification , Attitude to Health , Biomedical Research , Decision Making , Ethics, Medical , Health , Humans , Social Values , Terminology as TopicABSTRACT
KIE: Cutter's essay is one of eight in this issue of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy on controversies surrounding the use of tissues and organs from anencephalic fetuses and newborns for transplantation. She reviews some of the disagreements clustering around three major issues concerning the status of anencephalics as donors: the definition of brain life, the definition of personhood, and the definition of brain death. She also assesses how the other essayists in this issue offer solutions to the debate in light of a pluralism of moral beliefs in Western culture.^ieng
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Anencephaly/physiopathology , Beginning of Human Life , Brain Death/physiopathology , Cultural Diversity , Ethics, Medical , Life , Personhood , Philosophy, Medical , Tissue Donors , Tissue and Organ Procurement , Brain/physiopathology , Brain Diseases , Female , Humans , Infant, Newborn , Morals , Pregnancy , Prenatal Diagnosis , Value of LifeABSTRACT
An optical etching technique for producing small diffraction gratings, in which a thin metallic film set at an angle to the axis of a ruby laser cavity acted as a Q-switch in the operation of that laser, was previously reported. Here we report a comprehensive investigation of the formation of such etched gratings by the effect of laser light on a thin film external to the laser cavity. A time resolved investigation has been made of the development of such gratings in a number of metallic films, and the effect of film thickness, incident laser intensity, and angular orientation of the film has been studied.
