Civil Rights - Ethics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The vote of acute medical inpatients: a prospective study.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: There may be ethical issues associated with allowing certain inpatients to vote as some may be cognitively impaired. During the 2007 elections in France, we conducted a prospective observational study on voting among hospitalized ... Read more...

[Post-utilitarianism and the Prioritisation Debate]

30 Dec 2008 Pure utilitarianism has come to be a rare position in the ethics of health resource allocation. Most authors favour a combination of a utility-maximising criterion with other criteria, notably fairness-related ones. Classical utilitarianism, though, ... Read more...

Healthcare responsibilities and conscientious objection.

27 Nov 2008 The Constitutional Court of Colombia has issued a decision of international significance clarifying legal duties of providers, hospitals, and healthcare systems when conscientious objection is made to conducting lawful abortion. The decision ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Civil Rights - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• When it comes to HIV infection, some are more equal than others. 30 Aug 2009
• The vote of acute medical inpatients: a prospective study. 30 Jul 2009
• The Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (2006) and constitutional civil rights in the United States. 29 Apr 2009
• [Post-utilitarianism and the Prioritisation Debate] 30 Dec 2008
• Healthcare responsibilities and conscientious objection. 27 Nov 2008
• GINA, genism, and civil rights. 30 Jul 2008
• Regulating eugenics. 30 Mar 2008
• Families and the decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining therapy from the critically ill: are pressure tactics ever justified? 30 Dec 2007
• Disability, humanity, and personhood: a survey of moral concepts. 30 Oct 2007
• On a bioethical challenge to disability rights. 30 Oct 2007
• Should we consider a boycott of Israeli academic institutions? No. 19 Jul 2007
• Should we consider a boycott of Israeli academic institutions? Yes. 19 Jul 2007
• Group of British doctors call for a boycott of the Israel Medical Association. 26 Apr 2007
• Re: "Lies and coercion: why psychiatrists should not participate in police and intelligence interrogations". 30 Dec 2006
• ["For the welfare of patients"--is this really the case?] 29 Nov 2006
• Environmental justice: implications for occupational health nurses. 30 Oct 2006
• Ethical challenges in planning for an influenza pandemic. 30 Aug 2006
• "The Civil Rights Movement of the 1990s?": The anti-abortion movement and the struggle for racial justice. 30 May 2006
• Terri Schiavo: a disability rights case. 27 Feb 2006
• Rights talk and its remedies: the jurisprudence of Mary Ann Glendon. 30 Dec 2005

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Technical information about 'Civil Rights'

Definition: Legal guarantee protecting the individual from attack on personal liberties, right to fair trial, right to vote, and freedom from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin. (from http://www.usccr.gov/ accessed 1/31/2003)

Descriptor UI: D002961

Alternative terms: Civil Rights; Civil Right; Right, Civil; Rights, Civil; Voting Rights; Right, Voting; Rights, Voting; Voting Right; Legal Rights; Legal Right; Right, Legal; Rights, Legal; Due Process; Equal Protection; Protection, Equal;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; injuries; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I01.880.604.473.352; N03.706.437.352;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: Specify geog; consider also HUMAN RIGHTS & SOCIAL JUSTICE; PRIVACY ACT see PRIVACY is also available