Bioethics, Law, and Human Life Issues: A Catholic Perspective on Marriage, Family, Contraception, Abortion, Reproductive Technology, and Death and Dying

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 282-284
Author(s):  
James Hostetler ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Reproductive Technology ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
Catholic Perspective

Thanato-Laboratorien. Theorien von Tod und Sterben und Elias Canettis Buch gegen den Tod

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-86
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Heyne
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Elias Canetti ◽  
History Of ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
First Time ◽  
Textual Form ◽  
Or History

AbstractAlthough visual culture of the 21th century increasingly focuses on representation of death and dying, contemporary discourses still lack a language of death adequate to the event shown by pictures and visual images from an outside point of view. Following this observation, this article suggests a re-reading of 20th century author Elias Canetti. His lifelong notes have been edited and published posthumously for the first time in 2014. Thanks to this edition Canetti's short texts and aphorisms can be focused as a textual laboratory in which he tries to model a language of death on experimental practices of natural sciences. The miniature series of experiments address the problem of death, not representable in discourses of cultural studies, system theory or history of knowledge, and in doing so, Canetti creates liminal texts at the margins of western concepts of (human) life, science and established textual form.

scholarly journals When Culture Is Challenged by Art

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 87-100
Author(s):  
Jeff Koloze ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Organization ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
Post Abortion ◽  
Catholic Perspective ◽  
Pro Life

This paper examines three paintings by T. Gerhardt Smith as pro-life responses to the life issues of abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia: Sorrow Without Tears: Post-Abortion Syndrome, Femicidal National Organization Woman’s Planned Parentless Selfish Movement, and Killer Caduceus. After identifying foundational principles of art aesthetics from a Catholic perspective, the paper determines that Smith’s paintings are consistent with ideas enunciated in St. John Paul II’s Letter to Artists (1999).

Patients Feeling Severely Affected by Multiple Sclerosis

2016 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidrun Golla ◽  
Maren Galushko ◽  
Julia Strupp ◽  
Ute Karbach ◽  
Holger Pfaff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Unmet Needs ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
End Of Life Issues ◽  
Multiple Sclerosis Patients ◽  
Life Challenge

Eleven months after being interviewed in a study on unmet needs of severely affected multiple sclerosis patients, one participant died by assisted suicide. We reanalyzed the data to find out if our 15 study patients might have brought up the topic of death and dying during episodic interviews that had not primarily addressed this issue. Secondary analysis with regard to the thematic field of death and dying revealed that patients unsolicited brought up this issue within the following categories: “Passing over death and dying,” “Death is not relevant to me,” “We want to keep up the life challenge,” “Death as an option,” and “Wish to have the opportunity to address end of life issues.” We conclude that the topic of death and dying is of importance to these patients, as they spontaneously mentioned it in multiple varieties. Health professionals should individually acknowledge patients' needs to address death and dying.

Death and Dying Content in Undergraduate Social Work Education: Student Views of Their Preparation for End-of-Life Practice

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
End Of Life Issues ◽  
Work Education

The majority of the literature specific to end-of-life content within social work education has pertained to master's level students. This descriptive study examined how prepared 272 BSW students from Pennsylvania colleges and universities felt they were for addressing end-of-life issues in social work practice, regardless of setting. This study identified that students did not feel prepared to assist clients with end-of-life situations. Students provided a list of recommendations for the types of end-of-life content they thought should be included in the social work curriculum. Strategies for including end-of-life content into the baccalaureate social work curriculum are included.

scholarly journals Horrors Of Baby Making (Consequences Of Reproductive Technology On Humanity)

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Asma Manzoor ◽  
Saba Imran Ali
Keyword(s):  
In Vitro Fertilization ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Hormone Treatment ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technology ◽  
Testicular Sperm Extraction ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Vitro Fertilization

The recent advances in the field of medical sciences have allowed the scientists to control the processes of life and death. These processes not only can prolong the human life by machines but doctors and scientists can also initiate the process of human life: artificial insemination, cloning, in vitro fertilization (IVF), cyropreservation of sperm, oocytes, embryos, embryo transfer (ET), hormone treatment, surrogacy, testicular sperm extraction (TESE) and gamete intra fallopian transfer (GIFT) are well known examples. By far the most common of these is IVF. As a result of these scientific innovation couples have become statistics and children have become scientific experiments. Technological advancement in biology not only raises the question of good or bad technology or good or bad effects of technology but it lead us to the question whether all works of science and technology are beneficial or otherwise for the humankind. Since the birth of Louis Brown in 1978 – the period related to the first ‘test tube baby’ in the UK, many ethical issues regarding reproductive technologies (RT) and their potential impacts on humanity at large have been raised. In the light of extraordinary medical and ethical consequences that the RT has placed on humanity in the developed world, a discussion has been made in the paper to identify and describe the reproductive technology: In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). This paper also explores the difficulties that Muslim countries like Pakistan could face when actual progression of reproductive technologies gets under way.

scholarly journals Spiritual Care at The End Of Life: Western Views and Islamic Perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Wafa ‘a Qasem Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
The Past ◽  
Education Of Patients ◽  
Core Components ◽  
The Uk

The concept of spiritual and religious care, as core components of palliative care for patients at end of life stages, has achieved significant organized applications and advances in modes of intervention and tools. The past two decades have witnessed waves of secularization with impacts of the concepts of spirituality and chaplaincy that diverged away from religion, more so in the UK and some European countries as compared to US applications. Spirituality became more generic and broad that revealed itself in helping and education of patients and families to earth and think of meaning and purpose of life, suffering death and dying. The issues of spirituality and religiosity in the Islamic culture, teachings and attitudes towards patient care at terminal stages of life, is distinguished by clarity and harmony in view of clarity of Muslim beliefs and interpretations concerning purpose, meaning and mission of human life on this earth, end-of-life care and the afterlife. This paper will address the contemporary western diverse concepts of spirituality, its relationship with religiosity in terminal patient care, and will elaborate on the holistic Islamic views and attitudes towards this stage of human life.International Journal of Human and Health Sciences Vol. 02 No. 02 April’18. Page : 65-70

La perspectiva ética de los médicos residentes / The ethical perspective of resident physicians

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-194
Author(s):  
Guadalupe Grimaux ◽  
Agustín Silberberg
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Medical Residents ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Vitro Fertilization ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
End Of Life Issues

Objetivo: El objetivo del estudio es conocer las respuestas éticas de los médicos residentes en uno de los hospitales de alta complejidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Se investigaron los principales dilemas bioéticos de la práctica médica y se estudiaron las cuestiones bioéticas consideradas más relevantes por los médicos residentes. Método: Estudio de tipo descriptivo correlacional de diseño transversal. Se diseñó una encuesta para ser distribuida entre los residentes de un hospital de alta complejidad. La población es de 105 médicos residentes. La encuesta es anónima y estudia dos grandes campos de investigación bioética: inicio y final de la vida. Resultados: Participó el 100% de la población en estudio. En el campo de investigación sobre cuestiones de fin de vida, encontramos que el 61.9% de los residentes es contrario a la eutanasia, el 81.9% distingue entre limitación del esfuerzo terapéutico y eutanasia, y el 76.2% considera adecuada la limitación del esfuerzo terapéutico ante un tratamiento fútil. En el campo de investigación sobre cuestiones de inicio de la vida, los datos de nuestro estudio evidencian que el 61.9% está en desacuerdo con el aborto ante feto discapacitado y el 31.5% en caso de violación de la madre. El 44.8% considera apropiado el aborto ante embarazo ectópico sin previsión de signos próximos de complicación en la madre. Más del 80% está de acuerdo con la ligadura de trompas y con los anticonceptivos. El 86.7% considera apropiada la fecundación in vitro en el caso de un matrimonio estéril. El 81.9% rechaza la investigación con células madre obtenidas de embriones vivos y el porcentaje disminuye a 49.5% cuando la investigación tiene como objetivo la curación de una enfermedad. Los tres temas de bioética considerados más relevantes son: 1) suspensión del tratamiento en fin de vida (60.9%), 2) aborto (58%) y 3) eutanasia (45.7%). Conclusión: El estudio evidencia una valoración desigual de la vida humana en el inicio de la vida entre los médicos residentes de la población encuestada, manifestando en algunos de ellos una deficiencia en la percepción de la dignidad ontológica del embrión. La cuestión bioética considerada más relevante por los residentes es la suspensión del tratamiento y la limitación del esfuerzo terapéutico en el final de la vida. El conocimiento de las opiniones de los residentes abre el camino a una estrategia de formación bioética más eficaz y profunda. ---------- Aim: Ethical conceptions among medical residents at a high complexity hospital in Buenos Aires were investigated. Method: descriptive-correlational study with a transversal design. An anonymous survey was designed to be distributed among residents of one hospital. It analyzed two bioethics research fields: beginning and end of life. Results: All medical residents participated. Regarding end of life issues, 61.9% were against euthanasia, 81.9% were able to distinguish between limiting a therapeutic effort and practicing euthanasia, and 76.2% considered adequate to limit a therapeutic effort in cases of futile treatment. Regarding beginning of life, 61.9% disagree with abortion of a disable fetus, 31.5% in cases of rape of mother. In addition, 44.8% considered adequate to practice abortion in ectopic pregnancy without considering any complication sign in mothers. More than 80% agreed with Fallopian tube ligation and anovulatory contraceptive methods. Regarding sterility in a marriage, 86.7% approved in vitro fertilization. While 81.9% disapproved research with stem cells obtained from living embryos, this score was reduced to 49.5% when the aim is to cure a disease. Bioethics subjects considered more relevant were: 1) suspension of treatment, 2) abortion and 3) euthanasia. Conclusions: there is an unequal consideration of human life value among medical residents, with some of them showing a deficiency in the ontological dignity of the embryo. The bioethics subject considered more relevant was suspension of treatment and limitation of therapeutic efforts. The knowledge of these opinions could help developing new strategies in order to give an efficient bioethical formation.

TRANSPLANTACIJA ORGANA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragana Petrović ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Medical Procedure ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
Different Color ◽  
The Right

Even the mere mention of "transplantation of human body parts" is reason enough to deal with this topic for who knows how many times. Quite simply, we need to discuss the topics discussed from time to time !? Let's get down to explaining some of the "hot" life issues that arise in connection with them. To, perhaps, determine ourselves in a different way according to the existing solutions ... to understand what a strong dynamic has gripped the world we live in, colored our attitudes with a different color, influenced our thoughts about life, its values, altruism, selflessness, charities. the desire to give up something special without thinking that we will get something in return. Transplantation of human organs and tissues for therapeutic purposes has been practiced since the middle of the last century. She started (of course, in a very primitive way) even in ancient India (even today one method of transplantation is called the "Indian method"), over the 16th century (1551). when the first free transplantation of a part of the nose was performed in Italy, in order to develop it into an irreplaceable medical procedure in order to save and prolong human life. Thousands of pages of professional literature, notes, polemical discussions, atypical medical articles, notes on the margins of read journals or books from philosophy, sociology, criminal literature ... about events of this kind, the representatives of the church also took their position. Understanding our view on this complex and very complicated issue requires that more attention be paid to certain solutions on the international scene, especially where there are certain permeations (some agreement but also differences). It's always good to hear a second opinion, because it puts you to think. That is why, in the considerations that follow, we have tried (somewhat more broadly) to answer some of the many and varied questions in which these touch, but often diverge, both from the point of view of the right regulations and from the point of view of medical and judicial practice. times from the perspective of some EU member states (Germany, Poland, presenting the position of the Catholic Church) on the one hand, and in the perspective of other moral, spiritual, cultural and other values - India and Iraq, on the other.

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