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Managed Care: The Impact On The Physician / Patient Relationship, Robert H. Adams Jr. May 2003

Managed Care: The Impact On The Physician / Patient Relationship, Robert H. Adams Jr.

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Killing For The State: The Darkest Side Of American Nursing, Dave Holmes, Cary H. Federman Mar 2003

Killing For The State: The Darkest Side Of American Nursing, Dave Holmes, Cary H. Federman

Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The aim of this article is to bring to the attention of the international nursing community the discrepancy between a pervasive ‘caring’ nursing discourse and the most unethical nursing practice in the United States. In this article, we present a duality: the conflict in American prisons between nursing ethics and the killing machinery. The US penal system is a setting in which trained healthcare personnel practices the extermination of life. We look upon the sanitization of death work as an application of healthcare professionals’ skills and knowledge and their appropriation by the state to serve its ends. A review of …


Frontiers Of Existential Humanistic Psychotherapy: Preserving The Human Element In Cyberspace, Paul Murray Ph.D.,R.Psych. Jan 2003

Frontiers Of Existential Humanistic Psychotherapy: Preserving The Human Element In Cyberspace, Paul Murray Ph.D.,R.Psych.

Dr. Paul Murray

The internet has brought a vast new frontier into our lives, opening up easy access to previously unimagined possibilities as well as presenting us with many, as yet, incomprehensible complexities of operating our lives in cyberspace. Psychotherapy itself is confronted with new opportunities as it has moved from the tradition of the office, to the telephone, to email, and now to the Internet. Video-therapy is here. But how does psychotherapy fit into this new realm? What is the value of applying psychotherapy in this technological forum and what are the limitations of a psychotherapeutic approach via the internet? Can the …