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Why the West Should Help China Reduce Unrecognized and Preventable COVID-19 Deaths

In an era marked by a ruinous war between a democratic state and a totalitarian regime, political volatility, rightward looking isolationism and nationalism, and heightened competition and disputes ... do otherwise is to tacitly accept moral-ethical failure from inaction and an indeterminate risk to global public health by giving SARS-CoV2 another opportunity to exploit our social and political

Winners and Losers in the American Political Debates of the Nation’s Health: An Ethical and Moral Dilemma

the U.S. government’s political response and the Gunn article presents an ethical perspective of the emerging promised vaccine to halt the virus.

On the use of receiver operating characteristic curve analysis to determine the most appropriate p value significance threshold

value for a statistical test in the same way as we do for a diagnostic test cut-off value. Philosophy behind using a diagnostic test Suppose that the frequency distribution of a biological marker in ... false-negative relative to a false-positive test result [ 23 ]. Philosophy behind using a statistical inference test of hypothesis A similar argument can be applied to the statistical inference tests

The Confluence of Philosophy And Biology: An Excavation of Philosophical Issues in Molecular and Developmental Biology

molecular and developmental biology. This paper is an attempt to expose that philosophy is a major tool in proffering possible solutions to issues related to biology through one of the new dimension in ... Johnson Mendie University of Calabar , Calabar 1 Patrick Johnson Mendle, University of Calabar, Calabar & Emmanuel Bassey Eyo , PhD Part of the Biology Commons, Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, and

An Epidemiological View of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: COVID-19 and the Ethics of Science Denial

COVID-19 is exploiting U.S. political and cultural polarization in the first presidential election to be driven by epidemiology and public health. Medical science is on the ballot as Americans’ views ... dead, or if one’s employers and customers are ill or dead. Political leaders at multiple levels, and in particular the President, have politicized the wearing of face masks and so intentionally obscured

Extreme Religion, Extreme Beliefs: Comparing the Role of Children's Rights in Extremist Religions Versus Extremist Cults (QAnon)

of spiritual abuse must not only apply to religious cults. The same dangers of psychological control can apply to other extreme ideologies, such as radical political groups like QAnon. The growing ... nature of QAnon follows the formula of religious cults and exposes children to the same types of danger. The United States' current political structure and division has paved the way for new and extreme

Subject: Motivation can be suppressed, but scientific ability cannot and should not be ignored

help improve the level of health, treatment and medical education. Therefore, cultural, ethnic, racial and political differences and other current conflicts should not be a factor repelling and ... advantage, it does not guarantee the allocation of funds to research projects. The decision to allot resources to research is often influenced by political considerations and priorities. However, the

NeuroEPO plus (NeuralCIM®) in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s clinical syndrome: the ATHENEA randomized clinical trial

incidence of dementia and interaction between genetic admixture, apoe genotype, lipids and dementia in an admixed Cuban population . Degree of Doctor of Philosophy . Institute of Psychiatry, King's College

Get this thing out of my body! Factors determining consent for translational oncology research: a qualitative research

philosophy) and something alien: I think for all of us it’s a kind of foreign body that develops in us, so we want to get rid of it. So for me, no reservations. (male, age 50, expert patient) If I have a ... , doctoral student in philosophy) These two representations sometimes coexist: an internal dysfunction, the origin of which is still unknown but which produces an anarchic proliferation that must be

The Morality of Same Sex Marriage: How Not to Globalize a Cultural Anomie

. Using the human right fad and political might, they subtly engineer the globalization of this phenomenon. This move has been strongly opposed mostly by ‘developing’ nations and some churches across ... Political Philosophy Commons, and the Other Philosophy Commons Recommended Citation Article 2 Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/ojhe Part of the Epistemology Commons, Ethics and

Ethical Considerations Surrounding Vaccine Development During A Public Health Crisis

of Medicine and Philosophy , 2 , 1 - 9 . https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhaa028 Kaur , S. P. , & Gupta , V. ( 2020 ). Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free

Reciprocity and Priority Allocation System for Organ Transplant: An Ethical Analysis

political and cultural opposition, it is unlikely that many countries can implement such a system. The RPA system may be a relatively non-controversial approach to encourage registering for organ donation ... Care model. However, further analyses incorporating specific cultural and political issues are needed to see if such a system is appropriate for each country. Furthermore, we must go beyond theoretical

Recommendations for addressing the translational gap between experimental and clinical research on amyloid diseases

experience of doing research in amyloid diseases as “like being in a car that we don’t know how to drive.” This phrase captures the sense that there are larger institutional, political, and financial forces ... in the decision to publish the results. Author details 1Department of Philosophy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Children Are Actors Too: In Search for Child Refugees

political opinion are of specific importance for this paper.8 This paper concentrates on elements three and four, claiming that there are more children persecuted on account of a ground created by their ... commented, 18 use was stoned and the applicant fled the country fearing further retaliation for what she said.19 She asserted political opinion as grounds for her claim the political opinion which she had

An Ethical Analysis of Contemporary Healthcare Practices and Issues

The purpose of this analysis is to examine specific segments of healthcare policy and practice, applying various ethical perspectives. We examine the economic and political influences that surround ... economic and political influences that surround ethical behavior in health services, as well as how practitioners, patients, and families respond and act as a result of such influences. We then delve into

Sexual Minority Rights Are Not Just for the West: Health and Safety Considerations in Africa

heterogeneous, not homogeneous. One need only consider the social, political, and moral divide between two opposing camps within contemporary America to see the truth of this claim. To protect itself against the ... ., how has this recognition altered the everyday situation of real people living real lives. By starting with a decision to leave behind the moral arguments on LGBTQ+, South Africa decided upon a political

Underrated aspects of a true Mediterranean diet: understanding traditional features for worldwide application of a “Planeterranean” diet

Over the last decades, the Mediterranean diet gained enormous scientific, social, and commercial attention due to proven positive effects on health and undeniable taste that facilitated a widespread popularity. Researchers have investigated the role of Mediterranean-type dietary patterns on human health all around the world, reporting consistent findings concerning its benefits...

A Framework for Personal Respiratory Ethics

/journal.pone.0013998 Chen , H. , Yu , L. , & Huang , L.T. ( 2021 ). To mask or not to mask . Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology , 25 ( 3 ), 503 - 512 . https://philarchive.org/rec/CHETMO-22 Coleman

Impact of statin treatment on cardiovascular risk in patients with type 1 diabetes: a population-based cohort study

providers and quality assessment of health care services [ 10 ]. For the purpose of political and academic research with an appropriate review process, HIRA provides health care claims data to researchers