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Direct Democracy and Bioethical Choices: Voting Life and Death at the Ballot Box
No full textDirect democracy, the political process that enables citizens to draft, circulate, and enact laws, has become the refuge for grassroots organizations seeking statutory validation in a legislative arena perceived to be unresponsive or unfriendly to their concerns. One group of citizens, advocates for physician-aid-in-dying, has recently emerged on the national scene, sponsoring state ballot initiatives in three states and pledging to continue their quest for legalization of physician-assisted death throughout the country. In this Article, Professor Daar examines the interplay between direct democracy and regulation of end-of-life decision making. This examination reveals that lawmaking by initiative, as seen through the campaigns to gain legalization of physician-aid-in-dying, is no less susceptible to the ravages of political wrangling than is representative democracy. Professor Daar argues that direct democracy is best utilized as a spur to legislative action rather than as a replacement for the study and compromise unique to legislating through representative democracy. In addition, the author advocates recognition of a constitutionally protected liberty interest in choices surrounding death, thus providing a threshold level of protection to all citizens, not just those whose lawmakers or citizens are motivated to codify this fundamental right
Review of Judith Daar, Reproductive Technologies and the Law
No full textProfessor Bard reviews Judith F. Daar’s book Reproductive Technologies and the Law
A Clash at the Bedside: Patient Autonomy v. A Physician\u27s Professional Conscience
No full textAdvances in medical science and technology have enabled physicians to effectively sustain patients\u27 biological existence without curing or relieving their underlying illnesses. In some cases, physicians may perceive the application of these advances as medically futile or inappropriate. However, the jurisprudence of medical decision making has focused on patient autonomy, often giving patients the right to demand whatever treatments are available, regardless of cost, prognosis, and the advice of their physician.
Professor Daar examines the role a physician\u27s professional conscience plays in the jurisprudence of medical decision making. After criticizing the courts\u27 inconsistent response to a physician\u27s assertion of professional conscience, she turns to an examination of legislative responses to patient-physician conflict in the context of abortion refusal statutes, which recognize and protect the exercise of a physician\u27s professional conscience. She argues that our jurisprudence should offer this protection for physician autonomy in a wider clinical setting. Professor Daar concludes with a proposal, adapted from a model currently in place to resolve conflicts between attorneys and their clients, to resolve patient-physician conflicts without denigrating either the patient\u27s autonomy or the physician\u27s professional conscience
A Clash at the Bedside: Patient Autonomy v. A Physician\u27s Professional Conscience
No full textAdvances in medical science and technology have enabled physicians to effectively sustain patients\u27 biological existence without curing or relieving their underlying illnesses. In some cases, physicians may perceive the application of these advances as medically futile or inappropriate. However, the jurisprudence of medical decision making has focused on patient autonomy, often giving patients the right to demand whatever treatments are available, regardless of cost, prognosis, and the advice of their physician.
Professor Daar examines the role a physician\u27s professional conscience plays in the jurisprudence of medical decision making. After criticizing the courts\u27 inconsistent response to a physician\u27s assertion of professional conscience, she turns to an examination of legislative responses to patient-physician conflict in the context of abortion refusal statutes, which recognize and protect the exercise of a physician\u27s professional conscience. She argues that our jurisprudence should offer this protection for physician autonomy in a wider clinical setting. Professor Daar concludes with a proposal, adapted from a model currently in place to resolve conflicts between attorneys and their clients, to resolve patient-physician conflicts without denigrating either the patient\u27s autonomy or the physician\u27s professional conscience
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
International year of older persons: Mentoring research project
No full textA report, by Judith MacCallum and Susan Beltman, Murdoch University, that identifies models of good practice of mentoring in school settings. The report looks at issues associated with the implementation of mentoring programs in school settings and key recommendations for consideration by Australian schools and education systems
Author Correction: A prospective observational study of post-COVID-19 chronic fatigue syndrome following the first pandemic wave in Germany and biomarkers associated with symptom severity (Nature Communications, (2022), 13, 1, (5104), 10.1038/s41467-022-3
No full textIn the author list of this article, the names of the authorswere incorrectly listed with initials and family name only. The incorrect author list read as “C. Kedor, H. Freitag, L. Meyer-Arndt, K. Wittke, L. G. Hanitsch, T. Zoller, F. Steinbeis, M. Haffke, G. Rudolf, B. Heidecker, T. Bobbert, J. Spranger, H. D. Volk, C. Skurk, F. Konietschke, F. Paul, U. Behrends, J. Bellmann-Strobl and C. Scheibenbogen”. The author list has now been amended to include the given and family names in the HTML and PDF versions of the article. The corrected author list reads as “Claudia Kedor, Helma Freitag, Lil Meyer-Arndt, Kirsten Wittke, Leif G. Hanitsch, Thomas Zoller, Fridolin Steinbeis, Milan Haffke, Gordon Rudolf, Bettina Heidecker, Thomas Bobbert, Joachim Spranger, Hans- Dieter Volk, Carsten Skurk, Frank Konietschke, Friedemann Paul, Uta Behrends, Judith Bellmann-Strobl and Carmen Scheibenbogen”
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