Becoming a Conscientious Objector

The physician as a conscientious objector.

This Article examines the right of doctors to object, because of conflicts with the doctor’s own morals, to treatment requested or refused by patients. Focusing mainly on end-of-life care, the author compares court opinions allowing or prohibiting doctors to withhold or withdraw lifesustaining treatment at the request of patients or their surrogates.

OBJECTOR: Yet Another Authoring System

In this paper we argue that most commercially available authoring systems are not powerful enough for the development of specialized presentations such as courseware for teaching computer science. We briefly review several existing authoring systems and show their weak points. Then, we describe the design and implementation of OBJECTOR, an object-oriented authoring system. OBJECTOR is an author...

Becoming Teachers, Becoming Researchers: a Case Study

This paper presents a case study of a group in initial primary teacher education students becoming researchers of their peers’ course experiences of school – university links. The connection between university teacher preparation programmes and work in school is a well-researched area with suggestions that there is a marked disconnect between the two. The project took an emergent approach to le...

Conscientious objections to reform.

Conscientious Objection to Vaccination

Vaccine refusal occurs for a variety of reasons. In this article we examine vaccine refusals that are made on conscientious grounds; that is, for religious, moral, or philosophical reasons. We focus on two questions: first, whether people should be entitled to conscientiously object to vaccination against contagious diseases (either for themselves or for their children); second, if so, to what ...