منابع مشابه
Dying while living: a critique of allowing-to-die legislation.
Several US states are enacting 'right-to-die' laws, in the wake of the Karen Quinlan case. But the way such a law is drafted may cast doubt on a patient's existing common law right to control all aspects of his own treatment; it may give legal sanction to a lower standard of medical care that society at present expects from doctors; and it may lead to conflict between the patient's directive an...
متن کاملLiving and dying with dignity
Background: most older people living in nursing homes die there. An empirically based model of dignity has been developed, which forms the basis of a brief psychotherapy to help promote dignity and reduce distress at the end of life. Objective: to explore the generalisability of the dignity model to older people in nursing homes. Methods: qualitative interviews were used to explore views on mai...
متن کاملLiving and Dying in London
Ever since Babylon, the great city has been damned as a great evil. Preachers and prophets, statesmen and statisticians, poets and public health experts-to say nothing of town-dwellers themselves-have accused the metropolis of being the fons et origo, the source and site of all manner of turpitude and corruption, of morbidity and mortality; and megalopolis has been judged merely the multiplier ...
متن کاملLiving with p53, Dying of p53
The p53 tumor suppressor protein acts as a major defense against cancer. Among its most distinctive features is the ability to elicit both apoptotic death and cell cycle arrest. In this issue of Cell, Das et al. (2007) and Tanaka et al. (2007) provide new insights into the mechanisms that dictate the life and death decisions of p53.
متن کاملLiving (and Dying) in a Deterministic World
Biostatistical models typically describe associations answering questions like • Are people who smoke more likely to be diagnosed with lung cancer? or • Do HIV-infected patients treated with drug A live longer (or in the shorter term have lower viral load measurements) than similar patients treated with drug B? using cohort studies and clinical trials, respectively, to collect the data necessar...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0885-3924
DOI: 10.1016/s0885-3924(00)00267-0