PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore the lived experience and the associated meaning of approaching death among older adults with advanced cancer. RESEARCH APPROACH A phenomenologic inquiry. SETTING Urban cancer center. PARTICIPANTS 5 individuals diagnosed with advanced cancer who were 65 years or older. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH A series of semistructured interviews were tape-recorded, transcribe...

India’s economic growth story of the past two decades has a recurrent theme, accentuating insecurities for millions. Yet, there is deep divide over how to distribute fruits its growth. How best plough back gains achieve equality and social protection everyone? Despite status as middle-income country, close 350 million people live in absolute poverty. According an affidavit presented Supreme Cou...

The 2015 publication of Nick Sousanis’s graphic dissertation, Unflattening, opened doors for artist-scholars who challenge conventional research methodologies by producing dissertations, research, and comics-based publications in academic, scientific, medical journals. Unflattening came out one year after I began a PhD program cultural studies at the University California, Davis, with proposed ...

Research suggests that being self-compassionate can have myriad benefits, including life satisfaction, health-promoting behaviours and improved mental health. Given the possible advantages of being self-compassionate, it seems critical to explore how to promote this in the general population. This qualitative study aimed to understand responses to the idea of being compassionate to oneself with...

BACKGROUND The topos of the Compassionate God is a dominant motive of the Jewish and Christian traditions. It is relevant for nursing because it asks the nurse to imitate God so as to become God-like. Also, to think that God suffers with the suffering believers is thought to give comfort to them. Because in the western world the topos of the Compassionate God represents the basis of the ethics ...

Compassionate capitalism combines the concepts of communism, which aimed for equitable distribution wealth, with principles work, opportunity, and just economic compensation. The socialist paradigms from Marx other contemporaries when seamlessly is merged “ Economic Individualism” Adam Smith its contemporaries, should lead to what can be called Capitalism. currently defined as “the equal access...

Antimicrobial resistance is considered to be one of the greatest challenges of medicine and our civilization. Lack of progress in developing new anti-bacterial agents has greatly revived interest in using phage therapy to combat antibiotic-resistant infections. Although a number of clinical trials are underway and more are planned, the realistic perspective of registration of phage preparations...

BACKGROUND During Summer 2005, the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center asked hospitals to hold rounds to discuss the topic, "What Makes for a Compassionate Patient-Caregiver Relationship?" Review of questionnaires and transcripts of the rounds held at 54 hospitals in 21 states yielded three major categories: communication, common ground, and respect for individuality. COMMUNICATION Suggestions to impr...

BACKGROUND EU regulation 726/2004 authorises manufacturers to provide drugs to patients on a temporary basis when marketing authorisation sought centrally for the entire EU is still pending. Individual Member States retain the right to approve and implement such 'compassionate use' programmes which companies will usually provide for free. Nevertheless some companies have opted not to partake in...

BACKGROUND Compassion has become a topic of increasing interest within healthcare over recent years. Yet despite its raised profile, little research has investigated how compassionate care is enacted and what it means to healthcare professionals (HCPs). In a grounded theory study, we aimed to explore this topic from the perspective of people working with patients with type 2 diabetes - a long-t...