Contemporary placentography: harm or benefit?

The Liverpool Care Pathway: benefit or harm?

Hymenoplasty: Benefit or Corruption

Hymenoplasty is a surgery that doctors perform to repair girl `s virginity who lost it through virginal intercourse or other accidents. During their practice, doctors may face demands that do not have a therapeutic effect and are derived from the cultural and customary considerations of society. Given the fact that the doctor should also consider the patient's greatest benefit in such cases and...

Bachelor Essay Immigration – benefit or harm for native - born workers ?

The aim of our study is to investigate the effect of immigrants on wages for natives with divergent skill level within one country. Skill level is measured as education level and the purpose is to focus on the level where it according to us is a lack in research, namely the effect on high skilled native-born worker wages. Further, our contribution to the already existing studies may be consider...

The globalization of ayahuasca: harm reduction or benefit maximization?

Ayahuasca is a tea made from two plants native to the Amazon, Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, which, respectively, contain the psychoactive chemicals harmala alkaloids and dimethyltryptamine. The tea has been used by indigenous peoples in countries such as Brazil, Ecuador and Peru for medicinal, spiritual and cultural purposes since pre-Columbian times. In the 20th century, ayahuas...

Western bioethics on the Navajo reservation. Benefit or harm?

OBJECTIVE To understand the Navajo perspective regarding the discussion of negative information and to consider the limitations of dominant Western bioethical perspectives. DESIGN Focused ethnography. SETTING Navajo Indian reservation in northeast Arizona. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-four Navajo informants, including patients, biomedical health care providers, and traditional healers. RESULTS I...