Contemporary Neurological Dilemmas

Ethical dilemmas in the treatment of critically ill newborns.

Contemporary Neurological Dilemmas

© 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd INTRODUCTION Many patients present to neurology outpatient clinics without serious pathology – the classic example is the patient with chronic headache who believes he has a brain tumour. After a history and examination the neurologist is confi dent of the diagnosis of chronic tension-type headache, but is left not knowing whether to send the patient for a brain ...

Death be not proud: medical, ethical and legal dilemmas in resource allocation.

Workplace distress and ethical dilemmas in neuroscience nursing.

This study concerns Swedish nurses' experiences of workplace stress and the occurrence of ethical dilemmas in a neurological setting. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 21 nurses. The interview results were subjected to qualitative latent content analysis and sorted into 4 content areas: workplace distress, ethical dilemmas, managing distress and ethical dilemmas, and quality of nursing...

How We Can Promote Behavior That Serves All of Us in the Future

The health and vitality of relationships, groups, and society at large is strongly challenged by social dilemmas or conflicts between short-term self-interest and long-term collective interest. Pollution, depletion of natural resources, and intergroup conflict can be characterized as examples of urgent social dilemmas. This article advances a conceptual framework in which we analyze social dile...