A surgeon in Scotland has amputated the legs of two consenting, physically healthy patients. Although a handful of medical professionals believe that the desire for healthy limb amputation is symptomatic of a mental disorder that can be treated only by amputation, there is currently no consensus on what causes a person to desire such a disabling intervention. As long as there is no established ...

The increase of frequency of intoxications in children in recent decades is determined by the industrialization degree, the technical progress, and to the increase of life standards. Therefore, intoxications were included among the civilization specific diseases, having important medicalsocial and bioethical repercussions, requiring expensive and long-term care and producing much human sufferin...

On World Press Freedom Day (3rd of May 2009) details of the Frida Haus ranking list of press freedom in countries around the world were officially disclosed. Bosnia and Herzegovina is ranked at 98 place, and in the region better ranked is only Montenegro, which is located between 78 and 80 place along with Botswana and Eastern Timor. Top rated is Iceland with 9 points and on the last place is N...

Web logs (blogs) are growing in use, expanding beyond a personal means to exchange and record ideas to tools that are used by organisations as forums, mechanisms for knowledge management, and for purposes of persuasion (such as advertising) or influence (such as dissemination of political viewpoints). Because ideas are expressed as electronically recorded words, blogs can be data mined (or web ...

The importance of human microbiota in preserving human organism healthy is nowadays well acknowledged. The alteration of the microbiota can be the consequence of a persistent use of antibiotics or immunosuppressive medications or abdominal irradiation or surgery, wrong diet, or can be caused by surgery or anatomical condition. These alterations can cause many infections and diseases that today ...

We would like to thank P.J.P. Poels, D.P.A. Schellekens and T.R. Schermer for the interest shown in our recent paper [1] and for their comments. It is clear that we all agree that primary-care spirometry is important, albeit currently underused. However, we are unable to concur with one of the basic assumptions of the correspondents, namely that spirometry will automatically lead to improvement...

Aiming at addressing the ethical aspects concerning nurses' managerial activities, the authors of this work referred to Etzioni and adopted a hospital classification as a reference of organization in which consent is based on the internalization of rules accepted as legitimate. Regarding patients, their need to adapt to medical behavior and hospital rules through internalization is considered t...

♣ Corresponding Author: Carlos Ruggeroni, School of Psychology, National University Of Rosario, Argentina. Email: [email protected] Los efectos que la Tecnología genera en la Sociedad no son, en la Era Digital, una relación de causa-efecto unidireccional. Este articulo intenta elevar el interés científico sobre la relación que se genera entre la formación ética de los niños y el uso po...

Research in the area of psychological trauma raises a number of complex ethical issues. These include questions about unjustified medicalization of suffering, retraumatization of survivors, the morality of also investigating perpetrators of trauma, and neglecting to provide appropriate intervention. We discuss some of these issues against the backdrop of a study of trauma in South Africa, and t...

This paper focuses on ethical aspects of BCI, as a research and a clinical tool, that are challenging for practitioners currently working in the field. Specifically, the difficulties involved in acquiring informed consent from locked-in patients are investigated, in combination with an analysis of the shared moral responsibility in BCI teams, and the complications encountered in establishing ef...