Tender Loving Care: A Conceptual Analysis

Topics in acute respiratory distress syndrome: the patient needs our tender loving and care.

This editorial introduces a four-part series on acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) that will cover a wide range of related topics in reviews written by internationally renowned experts. The first part of this series will be published in this issue of the European Respiratory Review by GUÉRIN [1] on the role of prone positioning. This will be followed by articles on the topics of: 1) the...

'You need that loving tender care': maternity care experiences and expectations of ethnic minority women born in the United Kingdom.

OBJECTIVE To explore the maternity care experiences and expectations of United Kingdom (UK)-born ethnic minority women. METHODS Qualitative in-depth interviews with 34 UK-born mothers of Black Caribbean, Black African, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Irish descent, recruited mainly from nine National Health Service (NHS) maternity units in England. RESULTS Overall, women felt that their ...

DNA or loving care?

to five contestants might be involved in child-custody conflicts. As cases of ART in which third parties are involved become more common, the issue of what constitutes a parent is now, perhaps more than ever, highly contested. There is no consensus on what parents are or what they should be. At the heart of the issue are at least two important questions. First, what is the relative importance a...

The ethics of loving care.

Loving Touch: Treatment for Rejection of Care

Alzheimer’s disease is a major problem for the health care system because its prevalence is increasing with an aging population. There is no effective medication, which would prevent or treat Alzheimer’s disease on the horizon, and therefore appropriate care for people with this disease is increasingly important. In addition to cognitive deficits that result in functional impairments and a need...