Human Dilemmas
Mostrando 25-31 de 31 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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25. Limites Ãticos e jurÃdicos à clonagem humana no Brasil
This work studies clonage of human beings and its ethical and juridical implications. At the same time, it searches for standing out how genetic manipulation affects humanity, raising a wide discussion about opinions of values and reformulation of traditional concepts. The great challenge of 21st century will be developing a bioethics and a biolaw which rede
Publicado em: 2003
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26. People management by the development of organizational commitment: a holistic and simultaneous approach of the determinants involved in the process / Gestão de pessoas pelo desenvolvimento do comprometimento organizacional: uma abordagem holística e simultânea dos determinantes envolvidos no processo
The importance of the collaborator´s commitment to the organization´s objectives is evidenced in function of the new paradigm of industrial production: the integrated flexible automation. Since the beginning of mass production plants started by the automobile industry until recently, the paradigm taylorism/fordism has been the dominant. This model, marked
Publicado em: 2001
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27. Nuclear weapons and medicine: some ethical dilemmas.
The enormous destructive power of present stocks of nuclear weapons poses the greatest threat to public health in human history. Technical changes in weapons design are leading to an increased emphasis on the ability to fight a nuclear war, eroding the concept of deterrence based on mutually assured destruction and increasing the risk of nuclear war. Medical
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28. Ethical Issues in Stem Cell Research
Stem cell research offers great promise for understanding basic mechanisms of human development and differentiation, as well as the hope for new treatments for diseases such as diabetes, spinal cord injury, Parkinson’s disease, and myocardial infarction. However, human stem cell (hSC) research also raises sharp ethical and political controversies. The deri
The Endocrine Society.
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29. Can unequal be more fair? Ethics, subject allocation, and randomised clinical trials.
Randomised clinical trials provide the most valid means of establishing the efficacy of clinical therapeutics. Ethical standards dictate that patients and clinicians should not consent to randomisation unless there is uncertainty about whether any of the treatment options is superior to the others ("equipoise"). However, true equipoise is rarely present; mos
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30. Paradoxical traps in therapeutics: some dilemmas in medical ethics.
The doctor-patient relationship is examined an emphasis on the comparison between professional and moral principles. Many therapeutic measures have opposite-directed alternative steps with an equal degree of justification, so that no logical preference is attainable and conflicts ensue. Thus patients come for relief and are ordered to endure further pain and
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31. Transfusion-free treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses: respecting the autonomous patient's motives.
What makes Jehovah's Witnesses tick? What motivates practitioners of medicine? How is benevolent human behaviour to be interpreted? The explanation that fear of censure, mind-control techniques or enlightened self-interest are the real motivators of human conduct is questioned. Those who believe that man was created in "God's image", hold that humanity has t