Futile Care for the Terminally Ill: It May Be Legal But Is It Ethical or Morally Justifiable?

Global medicine: Is it ethical or morally justifiable for doctors and other healthcare workers to go on strike?

BACKGROUND Doctor and healthcare worker (HCW) strikes are a global phenomenon with the potential to negatively impact on the quality of healthcare services and the doctor-patient relationship. Strikes are a legitimate deadlock breaking mechanism employed when labour negotiations have reached an impasse during collective bargaining. Striking doctors usually have a moral dilemma between adherence...

There Is an ‘Unconscious,’ but It May Well Be Conscious

Depth psychology finds empirical validation today in a variety of observations that suggest the presence of causally effective mental processes outside conscious experience. I submit that this is due to misinterpretation of the observations: the subset of consciousness called "meta-consciousness" in the literature is often mistaken for consciousness proper, thereby artificially creating space f...

Rapid Response to Supersolidity: ‘Is It There or Is It Not?’ May Be the Answer as Well as the Question

with changes in a macroscopic collection of molecules he had witnessed—water which changes from solid to liquid to vapor as temperature increases. Fast forward almost exactly fi ve hundred years since “Hamlet” was fi rst performed at the Globe to the year 2004 and the Penn State University laboratory of physicist Moses Chan, where temperatures can be lowered to 0.2 Kelvin (0.2 above absolute ze...

They think it's all over, but it may not be!

I t is evident that anyone required to perform at a high level in sport or other physically demanding occupation has a limited number of years before demands made on the body begin to take their toll, sometimes accompanied by difficulties of a psychological nature. Although there may be a good deal of informal support from family, friends, and perhaps even other athletes who have retired, in so...

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries