Euthanasia: An Inclusive Definition

Palliative care: definition of euthanasia.

The potential benefits of integrating helminth control programmes into existing HIV and TB services warrant consideration. Such efforts should be supported by operational research to evaluate the impact of helminth control on HIV/AIDS and TB disease progression. Epidemiological and immunological research is also essential to understand the complexities of immunity during co-infections with helm...

Toward an Inclusive, Congruent, and Precise Definition of Autoinflammatory Diseases

Autoinflammatory disease was introduced as a concept in 1999, demarcating an entirely new group of diseases in clinical, immunological, and conceptual terms. During recent years, the preconditions for the definition of autoinflammatory conditions have changed. This includes the recent discovery of a number of monogenic autoinflammatory conditions with complex phenotypes that combine autoinflamm...

Building an Inclusive Definition of E-Learning: An Approach to the Conceptual Framework

E-learning is part of the new dynamic that characterises educational systems at the start of the 21 century. Like society, the concept of e-learning is subject to constant change. In addition, it is difficult to come up with a single definition of e-learning that would be accepted by the majority of the scientific community. The different understandings of e-learning are conditioned by particul...

An education in euthanasia.

Towards an Operational Definition of Critical Thinking

This paper offers a state-of-the-art working definition for the concept of Critical Thinking (CT hereafter) in an attempt to provide a framework for the development of an operational definition for this complex concept. Having studied various definitions and models, proposed for CT by major figures in the field, the key defining features of this rich concept were identified and classified. Base...