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Do Patients With Breast Cancer Participating In Clinical Trials Receive Better Nursing Care?, Myriam Skrutkowska, Charles Weijer
Do Patients With Breast Cancer Participating In Clinical Trials Receive Better Nursing Care?, Myriam Skrutkowska, Charles Weijer
Charles Weijer
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To examine differences in nursing care received by patients with breast cancer enrolled in clinical trials and those not enrolled in clinical trials.
DESIGN: Retrospective review of clinic charts.
SETTING: Oncology outpatient department of a tertiary-care hospital. SAMPLE: 90 women with early stage breast cancer. The mean age of the women was 53 years. More than half of the women (51 of 90) were treated in a clinical trial.
METHODS: Retrospective chart review of all the nurse-patient clinic encounters for a six-month period from date of cancer diagnosis. The content of each encounter was coded using a modified version …
Review Of Economic Efficiency And Social Justice: The Development Of Utilitarian Ideas In Economics From Bentham To Edgeworth, Henry West
Henry R. West, Retired
No abstract provided.
Film And Narrative In Bioethics: Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru, Charles Weijer
Film And Narrative In Bioethics: Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru, Charles Weijer
Charles Weijer
No abstract provided.
On The Value Of Natural Relations, Damian Cox
On The Value Of Natural Relations, Damian Cox
Damian Cox
In "A Refutation of Environmental Ethics" Janna Thompson argues that by assigning intrinsic value to nonhuman elements of nature either our evaluations become (1) arbitrary, and therefore unjustified, or (2) impractical, or (3) justified and practical, but only by reflecting human interest, thus failing to be truly intrinsic to nonhuman nature. There are a number of possible responses to her argument, some of which have been made explicitly in reply to Thompson and others which are implicit in the literature. In this discussion I describe still another response, one which takes Thompson's concerns about value seriously, but does not assign …
Moral Rights And Moral Math: Three Arguments Against Aggregation, Samantha Brennan
Moral Rights And Moral Math: Three Arguments Against Aggregation, Samantha Brennan
Samantha Brennan
No abstract provided.
Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature, Karen Warren
Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature, Karen Warren
Karen Warren, Retired
No abstract provided.
Deceiving Sources, Michael Pritchard
Utterance Meaning And Syntactic Ellipsis, Robert J. Stainton
Utterance Meaning And Syntactic Ellipsis, Robert J. Stainton
Robert J. Stainton
No abstract provided.