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PubMed1992

The death of Sarah Lovell and the constrained feminism of Emily Stowe.

In 1879 a coroner's inquest was held on the body of Sarah Lovell, a young, unmarried woman who was thought to have died of an attempt at procuring an abortion. Suspicion fell on Emily Stowe, Toronto's first woman doctor. Stowe had graduated 12 years earlier from a US medical college but had not yet been granted a licence to practise in Ontario. She admitted to having seen and spoken to Lovell but denied any involvement in an abortion. Less than a year later she obtained the long-desired licence. The author has used newspapers, journals and other archival sources to explore the nature of Stowe's testimony and its relation to her acceptance by the profession.

Abortion, Legal↗
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[Psychophysiologic parameters of reproducing emotions in healthy subjects and patients during the first episode of depression].

We analyzed the spectral power of EEG rhythms and some psychological features in patients with depression (first episode) and in healthy subjects. In the control group, the distributions of the spectral power of the alpha3 and gamma rhythms was symmetrical. In reproducing joy, the power of the alpha3 rhythm increased in the occipital and that of the gamma rhythm increased in the temporal areas of the left hemisphere. In depressive patients, predominant activation of the left posterior cortical quadrant in the alpha3 band was observed both in the baseline activity and during reproducing emotions of both valences. In these patients, the gamma rhythm predominated in the anterior regions of the right hemisphere during rest. The mental reproduction of joy and grief in depressive patients shifted the maximal gamma rhythm spectral power to the occipital cortical regions. Thus, in depressive patients, any emotional load, regardless of its valence, results in a decrease in the pathologic gamma activity and makes the distribution of cortical electric activity more close to that of healthy subjects.

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PubMed2005

Court-ordered obstetrical intervention and the rights of a pregnant woman.

Cases of court-ordered obstetrical interventions are not common but have caused great controversy in the United States, Canada and Britain. At stake for the pregnant woman is her right to have autonomy over her body and control over the medical treatment that she receives. However, with growing medical knowledge of the fetal condition, there is a case to suggest that the fetus should have some rights in cases where the decision of the pregnant woman to refuse treatment would cause severe harm to the fetus. The article argues that though the case against intervention is extremely strong, court-ordered obstetrical interventions should still be possible in extreme cases.

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PubMed2005

I want my information back: evidentiary privilege following the partial birth abortion cases.

In February 2004, privacy concerns captured the public's attention when the United States government, the defendant in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, sought to subpoena the medical records of patients receiving intact dilation and extraction (also known as "partial birth") abortions in six different hospitals and six Planned Parenthood centers across the country. Three different federal court cases explored the enforceability of the subpoenas. This Note explores the rationales used by the three courts in examining the privacy interests involved. It then suggests some possible solutions for systematically protecting medical information: a legal solution; a technological solution; and a combination of both. The legal solution involves creating a federal physician-patient privilege, similar to that enforced in many states and parallel to the federal psychotherapist-patient privilege. The technological solution requires the complicity of multiple jurisdictions to verify the necessity of revealing medical information. Taken together, these solutions can assist the government in protecting its citizens by imposing more checks on itself.

Abortion, Legal↗