In Canada where long-term care is primarily oriented to elderly persons and affordable
accessible housing is limited, younger disabled adults may be living in circumstances that …

Kant's concept of autonomy and the Kantian notion of autonomy are often conflated in
bioethics. However, the contemporary Kantian notion has very little at all to do with Kant's …

Canine otitis externa (OE) is a commonly diagnosed condition seen in veterinary practice
worldwide. In this review, we discuss the mechanisms of the disease, with a particular focus …

The “lone” clinical bioethicist working in a large, multisite hospital faces considerable
challenges. While attempting to build ethics capacity and sustain a demanding range of …

Background Regionalised models of health care delivery have important implications for
people with disabilities and chronic illnesses yet the ethical issues surrounding disability …

The article investigates the potential for gender and other biases in the medicolegal
discourse of patient competence. Competence or incompetence is not simply an intrinsic …

Currently, there is no authoritative credentialing process for individuals engaged in ethics
practice, no accreditation system that sets minimum education standards for programs …

A membrane reactor (MBR) is used to investigate the effect of selective reactant addition on
series-parallel reaction networks, such as the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane to …

Patients with the rare pre-leukemia bone marrow failure syndrome severe congenital
neutropenia (CN) have reduced numbers of neutrophils in peripheral blood (< 500/µl) …

The socio-medico-legal practice of assessing mental competence, or decision-making
capacity, provokes fundamentally important conceptual,(bio) ethical and political questions …