The Return of Virtue to Ethical Medical Decision Making

Does pregnancy affect medical ethical decision making?

OBJECTIVE We studied and compared the attitudes of pregnant women v new mothers in an attempt to confirm changing patterns of maternal response towards medical ethical decision making in critically ill or malformed neonates. DESIGN Data were obtained by questionnaires divided into three sections: 1. sociodemographic; 2. Theoretical principles which might be utilised in the decision-making pro...

A return to virtue.

T he dominant trend in contemporary medical ethics describes ethical behavior in terms of the principles and rules that must be followed to bring it about, most notably nonmaleficence, beneficence, justice, and respect for autonomy. An alternative approach to ethics, virtue ethics, emphasizes not principles and rules, but rather the virtues, or characteristics, whose exercise will bring about e...

From Medical Decision-making to Medical-cost-comparative Decision-making.

WHEN A PHYSICIAN GATHERS A PATIENT’S history, runs diagnostic tests and performs an evaluation, he or she is performing medicine’s most fundamental act: medical decision-making. Patient care is all about physicians bringing their education, training and personal experience to bear with a particular patient and his or her particular symptoms, disease or injury. Frequently, the course of treatmen...

The Ethical Dangers of Rational Decision Making 1 The Ethical Dangers of Rational Decision Making

contribution of setting to the study of characters and the main idea in e. brontes: wuthering heights and t. hardys: return of the native.

this thesis aims to adduce an unmitigated and comprehensive explication concerning the relationship of three significant elements of fiction: setting, chracter and theme. my research is basically placed on two outstanding novels of the 19th century: emily brontes wuthering heights and thomas hardys return of the native. my endeavour lies in studying the correlation among the three above-mention...