Helen, Author at Hacienda Publishing

Editor’s Note on Miguel Faria’s Editorial on America, Guns and Freedom

Life-Prolonging Measures

Leave a Comment / Bioethics and Thanatology / By Helen

Medical efforts to prolong the lives of individuals afflicted with serious disease or injury began with primitive medicine, perhaps in the Neolithic Period (8000-3000 B.C.), when we discerned from paleontologic evidence a tendency for primitive men and women to care for the sick and wounded in the shelters provided by the deep caves of Europe.

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Press Release: America, Guns and Freedom and Shooting Rampages, Mental Health and the Sensationalization of Violence

Leave a Comment / Politics and History / By Helen

Surgical Neurology International publishes a two-part series entitled “America, Guns, and Freedom: A Recapitulation of Liberty” and “Shooting Rampages, Mental Health, and the Sensationalization of Violence.” Open-access journal weighs in on the gun control debate from a neurological perspective As the issue of gun control heats up across the nation, (SNI) offers an objective point of view from a highly-respected

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Chronic Illness

Leave a Comment / Bioethics and Thanatology / By Helen

Physicians classify diseases in a variety of ways. Clinical classifications are often made according to either the suddenness of onset or the expected prognosis. Diseases are considered acute if they develop suddenly and have a short clinical course. Chronic diseases, on the other hand, have a slow onset, indolent course, and long duration. They heal

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Bioethics — The Life and Death Issue

Leave a Comment / Bioethics and Thanatology / By Helen

Since the time of Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.), the Father of Medicine, physicians have traditionally subscribed to doing no harm and prescribed what is in the best interest of their individual patients; in other words, putting their patients first. This concept is known as individual-based ethics. The new bioethics movement, on the other hand, subscribes to

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Helen

Editor’s Note on Miguel Faria’s Editorial on America, Guns and Freedom

Life-Prolonging Measures

Press Release: America, Guns and Freedom and Shooting Rampages, Mental Health and the Sensationalization of Violence

Chronic Illness

Bioethics — The Life and Death Issue

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