In the UK in October 1992, Mrs S was forced to have a caesarean section despite her objections to such a procedure on religious grounds. The case once again called into question the obligations of women to the unborn, and also whether one person can be forced to undergo a medical procedure for the benefit of someone else. Re S, like the case of Angela Carder, is often discussed in terms of the ...

Methods: The present study utilized a secondary descriptive design of data collected from a longitudinal study. The current sample consists of 314 participants selected from the original study’s 1,245 participants. All participants were recruited form three rural communities in central Texas. The study was approved by The University’s institutional review board; parents signed informed consents...

background: obsessive patients are distressed by intrusive thoughts, which are related to unreal threats. these patients feel that they are responsible for harming themselves and others. while controlling worry and meta-cognitive beliefs, the present study aimed at comparing the responsibility attitudes in obsessive compulsive patients with those in normal subjects to determine whether the diff...

Little is known about how parents and youth perceive their roles in post-transplant management and how this relates to post-transplant adherence. The goals of this study are to (1) describe a new measure, the TRQ, (2) to describe parent and child performance on the TRQ, and to (3) determine the relationship between the TRQ and adherence. We hypothesized that older youth would describe higher po...

BACKGROUND Professional Social Responsibility is now imperative for the practice of medicine. However, there are no instruments to assess it among physicians. AIM To construct and evaluate the factorial structure and reliability of a questionnaire designed to measure socially responsible behavior in physicians. MATERIAL AND METHODS The Questionnaire on Medical Socially Responsible Behavior,...