Editorial: Prescribing budgets: economic, clinical and ethical perspectives

Interdisciplinary Perspectives/Part I: Economic Perspectives (Editorial Introduction)

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been rapidly diffusing around the world in the past thirty years. However, many observers in international government and non-government organizations, including the various agencies of the United Nations, the World Bank, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, and the International Telecommunications, among other organiza...

Persistent vegetative state: medical, ethical, religious, economic and legal perspectives.

Capitation based prescribing budgets will not work

General practice prescribing costs have risen rapidly in recent years, and there are wide variations between practices in rates and costs of prescribing. Setting general practice prescribing budgets with a capitation based formula seems to offer a solution to these problems. However, capitation based formulas may unfairly penalise legitimate variations and increases in prescribing costs. We the...

Inherited susceptibility to cancer: clinical, predictive and ethical perspectives

Inevitably, reading is one of the requirements to be undergone. To improve the performance and quality, someone needs to have something new every day. It will suggest you to have more inspirations, then. However, the needs of inspirations will make you searching for some sources. Even from the other people experience, internet, and many books. Books and internet are the recommended media to hel...

Phenomenological, psychological, and ethical perspectives

How can severely traumatized persons re-present the past and its impact on the present if (due to blackout, repression, or dissociation) they could not witness what they went through, or can hardly recall it? drawing on Holocaust testimonies, this article explores the crisis of witnessing constituted by the Shoah and, more generally, problems of integrating and communicating traumatic experienc...