Morals
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration.

29 Nov 2009 The withdrawal, withholding, or implementation of life-sustaining treatments such as artificial nutrition and hydration challenge nurses on a daily basis. To meet these challenges, nurses need the composite skills of moral and ethical discernment, ... Read more...

Trust, power, and vulnerability: a discourse on helping in nursing.

29 Nov 2009 This article uses philosophical inquiry to present the relationship between the helping role in nursing and the concept of trust essential to it. It characterizes helping as the moral center of the nurse-patient relationship and discusses how ... Read more...

Counting the dead and regulating the living: early modern statistics and the formation of the sociological imagination (1662-1897).

30 Aug 2009 This paper examines the contributions made by early modern statistical literature to the formation of the sociological imagination. Starting in the mid-seventeenth century, the fields of 'political arithmetic' and vital and moral statistics provided ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Morals'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration. 29 Nov 2009
• Trust, power, and vulnerability: a discourse on helping in nursing. 29 Nov 2009
• To know, to reason, to act. 29 Nov 2009
• A colloquium on the congress "A gift for life. Considerations on organ donation". 13 Oct 2009
• Euthanasia debate reignited. 19 Sep 2009
• Bioengineered bodies and the moral imagination. 17 Sep 2009
• Normative slogging. 30 Aug 2009
• Counting the dead and regulating the living: early modern statistics and the formation of the sociological imagination (1662-1897). 30 Aug 2009
• Ethnic conflict without ethnic groups: a study in pure sociology. 30 Aug 2009
• Registered nurses' perceptions of moral distress and ethical climate. 30 Aug 2009
• The search for reasons in a unified relationship. 17 Aug 2009
• Metaphysical and ethical perspectives on creating animal-human chimeras. 17 Aug 2009
• Health care providers' attitudes towards termination of pregnancy: a qualitative study in South Africa. 16 Aug 2009
• A regulatory argument against human embryonic stem cell research. 16 Aug 2009
• Sex, immorality, and mental disorders. 16 Aug 2009
• Stigmatization of alcohol and other drug users by primary care providers in Southeast Brazil. 16 Aug 2009
• Ethical principles in health research and review process. 5 Aug 2009
• Moral judgements in nursing. 30 Jul 2009
• A dialectical analysis of an art of dental hygiene practice. 30 Jul 2009
• Modern anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli attitudes. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Morals'

Definition: Standards of conduct that distinguish right from wrong.

Descriptor UI: D009014

Alternative terms: Morals; Morality;

Related Mesh Headings: Conflict of Interest; Retrospective Moral Judgment;

Tree Number: F01.829.500; K01.316.630; K01.752.256.547;