scholarly journals Response to "Public attitude to imminent death donation"

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Thao N. Galvan ◽  
Smruti Rath ◽  
Laura Washburn ◽  
Priyanka Moolchandani ◽  
John Goss
Keyword(s):  
Public Attitude ◽  
Imminent Death

Re-centering the Cinema Experience in a Multi-Platform, Digital Age

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. W. Nikdel
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Film History ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Film Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Imminent Death ◽  
Multiple Media

With the advent of online distribution and the rise of multiple media devices, claims of the cinema’s imminent death have surfaced with greater intensity than ever before. Of course, with an ever-widening array of platforms these accounts have placed a newfound emphasis on the cinema as a distinctive physical space, one that plays host to a very particular and much cherished cultural activity. This article considers the substance of these claims by tracing a very particular historical route. Firstly, be revisiting Baudry’s notion of the dispositif, this article detects the importance of the physical environment in the process of film consumption. Secondly, I relate this emphasis on the physical to the traditional notion of the cinephile, a practice that ritualises the cinema experience. Many accounts across the spectrum of film history will attest to the profound ways in which the physical experience of the cinema summons a rich emotional response. Lastly, I consider how the cinema and the collective nature of film consumption provides an authentic trace to the past and a very certain time and place in history. In turn, despite competition from cheaper and more convenient platforms, this article will endeavour to show how the cinema retains its place at the centre of contemporary film culture. KEYWORDS Cinema, dispositif, cinephilia, cultural memory.

A Group Awaiting Death: The Social Systems Perspective on a Naturally Occurring Group Situation

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Starker ◽  
Joan E. Starker
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Task Structure ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Situation ◽  
Imminent Death

The decline and imminent death of an individual in a hospital's intensive care unit led to the creation of a transient group composed of family and friends. The dynamics of this tragic group are explored using the concepts provided by Social Systems theory. Ambiguity of the task structure and its inherent frustrations, fluidity of leadership and power, and failure of a utopian defense are all discussed as contributors to subsequent dissension and splitting. The social systems perspective provides a useful tool for understanding this naturally occurring group situation.

scholarly journals TAXATION AND THE PUBLIC ATTITUDE

1924 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 199-204
Author(s):  
Paul Edward Moyer
Keyword(s):  
Public Attitude ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Potential yield of imminent death kidney donation

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 486-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan A. Denu ◽  
Eneida A. Mendonca ◽  
Norman Fost
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Donation ◽  
Potential Yield ◽  
Imminent Death

scholarly journals Beneficial haemodynamic effect of indomethacin during endotoxin shock in anaesthetized pigsputative involvement of nitric oxide?

1995 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Mózes ◽  
E. M. van Gelderen ◽  
E. J. Mylecharane ◽  
P. R. Saxena
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Beneficial Effect ◽  
Endotoxic Shock ◽  
Haemodynamic Effect ◽  
Experimental Period ◽  
Endotoxin Shock ◽  
Arterial Blood ◽  
Imminent Death ◽  
Beneficial Haemodynamic Effect

Endotoxin shock was induced in 31 anaesthetized pigs by infusion of 5 μg/kg of Escbeicbia coli endotoxin (LPS) over 60 min into the superior mesenteric artery. Fifteen of these pigs died within 30 min of the start of LPS infusion whereas the remaining 16 survived the experimental period of 2 h. In a group of nine pigs indomethacin (2 mg/kg, i.v.)was inected 20–25 rain after the start of LPS infusion at which time mean arterial blood pressure (MABP) had decreased below 40 mmHg indicating imminent death. Indomethacin immediately reversed the hypotension. In another group of five pigs, NG-nitro L-arginine-methyl ester (L-NAME, 1 and 3 mg/kg)was iniected 10 and 5 min, respectively, before the expected death without any beneficial effect on the hypotension. Three rain after the last dose of L-NAME, indomethacin (2 mg/kg, i.v.) was iniected. In three animals the hypotension was reserved by indomethacin, although this beneficial effect was delayed in comparison with the LP-Streated group not receiving L-NAME. Four pigs were pretreated with L-NAME, 3 mg/kg, i.v., 10 min prior to LPS infusion. All pretreated animals tended to die within 30 min of the start of the LPS infusion. Five rain before the expected death (20–25 rain after the start of LPS infusion) indomethacin (2 mg/kg) was inected. In three of these animals indomethacin reversed hypotenston and prevented death. Interestingly, this rise in the MABP developed very slowly. These results suggest that the beneficial effect of indomethacin in endotoxin shock might be related partially to interference with nitric oxide, which is not the only factor determining blood pressure levels during endotoxic shock.

Educating Democratic Character

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Rogach Alexander ◽  
Philip Kitcher
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Democratic Education ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Mutual Engagement ◽  
Democratic Character ◽  
Imminent Death ◽  
Different Levels

Abstract Many recent writers on democracy have lamented its decay and warned of its imminent death. We argue that the concerns are focused at three different levels of democracy. The most fundamental of these, celebrated by Tocqueville and by Dewey, recognizes the interactions and joint deliberations among citizens who seek sympathetic mutual engagement. Such engagement is increasingly rare in large-scale political life. In diagnosing and treating the problems, we recommend returning to the debate between Lippmann and Dewey, in which many of the concerns now prominent were already voiced. This inspires the main work of the paper – the reconstruction of Dewey’s conception of democracy as a ‘mode of associated living’. We focus on the thesis that democracy is educative and explicate Dewey’s notion of growth, showing how democratic education contributes to three important functions: the capacity for sustaining oneself, the enrichment of individual experience, and the ability to enter into cooperative discussions with fellow citizens. Dewey’s conception of democratic education is directed at fostering particular virtues and, if citizens come to possess them, the need for Lippmann’s ‘omnicompetent individual’ vanishes. We conclude by suggesting that Dewey’s project of educating democratic character is pertinent for addressing the disaffection of our times.

Imminent Death Donation: Ethical and Practical Policy Considerations

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 524-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Potter
Keyword(s):  
Organ Donation ◽  
Cardiac Death ◽  
Organ Procurement ◽  
Donation After Cardiac Death ◽  
Live Organ Donation ◽  
Life Sustaining Treatment ◽  
Imminent Death

While the practice of organ donation after cardiac death has long been trending upwards in acceptance and use, it is still a highly controversial and practically inefficient method of organ procurement. One policy that has recently been proposed to try and alleviate some of the ethical and practical concerns with organ donation after cardiac death is the practice of imminent death organ donation. This type of live organ donation comes in patients at the end of their life who have decided to withdraw life-sustaining treatment, but still want to ensure that their organs are donated and not wasted, which isn't always the case with organ donation after cardiac death. This paper then gives some ethical and practical reflections and recommendations regarding the potential implementation of this controversial practice into regular transplant practice and policy.

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