Conscience
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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Physicians' beliefs about conscience in medicine: a national survey.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE: To explore physicians' beliefs about whether physicians sometimes have a professional obligation to provide medical services even if doing so goes against their conscience, and to examine associations between physicians' opinions and their ... Read more...

It takes two to tango: how parents' and adolescents' personalities link to the quality of their mutual relationship.

29 Jun 2009 According to J. Belsky's (1984) process model of parenting, both adolescents' and parents' personality should exert a significant impact on the quality of their mutual relationship. Using multi-informant, symmetric data on the Big Five personality ... Read more...

Guidelines for managing conscientious objection to blood transfusion.

29 Jun 2009 Parents sometimes deny their children blood transfusion because of their religious beliefs. The Japanese Joint Committee on the Refusal of Blood Transfusion on Religious Grounds asserts that the health and life of every child younger than 15 years ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Conscience'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Physicians' beliefs about conscience in medicine: a national survey. 30 Aug 2009
• It takes two to tango: how parents' and adolescents' personalities link to the quality of their mutual relationship. 29 Jun 2009
• Guidelines for managing conscientious objection to blood transfusion. 29 Jun 2009
• Conscience and the unconscionable. 30 May 2009
• What physicians need to know about the legal status of abortion in the United States. 30 May 2009
• Matters of "conscience": the politics of reproductive healthcare in Poland. 30 May 2009
• Conscientiousness, career success, and longevity: a lifespan analysis. 18 May 2009
• Compensatory conscientiousness and health in older couples. 29 Apr 2009
• Emergency contraception and physicians' rights of conscience: a review of current legal standards in Wisconsin. 29 Apr 2009
• Testing personality-coping diatheses for negative and positive affect: a longitudinal evaluation. 29 Apr 2009
• Bush administration issued, and Obama administration seeks to rescind, 'conscience clause' regulation. 30 Mar 2009
• Stigma, conscience, and science in psychiatry: past, present, and future. 30 Mar 2009
• Exploring the benefits of conscientiousness: an investigation of the role of daily stressors and health behaviors. 24 Mar 2009
• Conscientious objection gone awry--restoring selfless professionalism in medicine. 23 Mar 2009
• [Learned societies and end of life...] 15 Mar 2009
• Sympathetic response to chemostimulation in conscious rats exposed to chronic intermittent hypoxia. Mar 2009
• Legal protection and limits of conscientious objection: when conscientious objection is unethical. 27 Feb 2009
• Tapping the grapevine: a closer look at word-of-mouth as a recruitment source. 27 Feb 2009
• Recruitment efforts to reduce adverse impact: targeted recruiting for personality, cognitive ability, and diversity. 27 Feb 2009
• Conscientiousness and externalizing psychopathology: overlap, developmental patterns, and etiology of two related constructs. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Conscience'

Definition: The cognitive and affective processes which constitute an internalized moral governor over an individual's moral conduct.

Descriptor UI: D003242

Alternative terms: Conscience; Consciences;

Tree Number: F01.829.500.359; K01.316.630.350; K01.752.256.547.359;

Online Note: search MORALS 1966-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under MORALS 1975-90

Technical Notes: no qualif