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[Prolonging life at any cost? Ethical attempts at new personal freedom regarding and and the end of life].

The prolongation of life to its extremes "at any cost" has been criticized for decades. The courts have endorsed patient autonomy and patient rights. The number of advance directives has increased considerably. The medical community did after all react appropriately, e.g., by codes of ethics or guidelines. The situation is now in danger of overreaction. The problems of lopsided self-determination are at stake. A new culture of negotiated medical constraint needs both doctor and patient as partners ready to learn how to walk the narrow ridge between overtreatment and just individual choice.

Advance Directives↗

Does autonomy require freedom? The importance of options in international HIV/AIDS research.

This paper analyses the way in which being in possession of an adequate range of options is an essential component of autonomy. I discuss the way in which the conceptualisation of options in terms of basic rights might assist this argument, and apply these ideas to HIV/AIDS clinical research in the developing world. Finally, I suggest that mechanisms should be put in place through which vulnerable research participants can express their views about the relationship between the research in which they are involved, and needs of a worthwhile life.

Clinical Trials as Topic↗

One person's 'spoiling' is another's freedom to become: overcoming ethnocentric views about parental control.

Gaining cultural self-awareness by health and human services professionals in areas that are bastions of conservatism like childrearing is particularly difficult to achieve. It is argued that polarized ideas about parental control dominate the Anglo Dominant Culture's value orientations, reflected in both popular and scientific literature. Parental permissiveness is cast into an opposing category of 'noncontrol', imbuing it with negativism. Prejudice against Eskimo childrearing is examined in that context and a method is offered to 'loosen' the grip of Anglo beliefs about parenting.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗