OBJECTIVE:: To explore ethical issues in using deception to improve participation in a patient with severe traumatic brain injury who had not responded to traditional behavioral and pharmacologic approaches. DESIGN:: Case study. PARTICIPANT:: A male in inpatient neurorehabilitation with history of severe traumatic brain injury and significant behavioral disruption that ...

Nursing faculty members have become increasingly concerned with student incidences of cheating and the associated lack of commitment to ethical conduct. Our faculty believed that actively engaging students in the development of specific behavioral guidelines would result in improved ethical conduct and provide a bridge to future professional ethical practice. ...

Volumes of the Archives of Ophthalmology from the early years of the 20th century include original articles as well as reports of proceedings of important ophthalmologic conferences held in the United States, Great Britain, and on the European continent. Original articles often provided new information, but speakers at conferences frequently ...

Ethics is about studying the right and the good; morality is about acting as one should. Although there are differences among what is legal, charitable, professional, ethical, and moral, these desirable characteristics tend to cluster and are treasured in dentistry. The traditional approach to professionalism in dentistry is based on ...

ABSTRACT: A report on the British Atherosclerosis Society autumn meeting 'Genetics of Complex Diseases', Cambridge, UK, 17-18 September 2009.

The United Kingdom Radiation Oncology (UKRO) conference was formed as a result of discussions held in the early 1990s and the first meeting was held in York in 2001. Cardiff, Wales, was the setting of the fifth UKRO conference during April 2009. These meetings have allowed all the sub-disciplines of ...

The 26th annual British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting was held in London from 2 to 5 December 2008. It was attended by over 2000 participants from around the world. The program presented to attendees topics of interest across respiratory clinical and scientific fields.

The British Pharmacological Society (BPS) is currently celebrating its 75th anniversary. It is therefore a young society compared with some other biomedical societies and particularly when compared with the origins of the oldest learned societies. In this article, I briefly review the origins of learned societies and examine the rise ...

The Society for Medicines Research in collaboration with the Biological and Medicinal Chemistry sector of the Royal Society for Chemistry held a meeting on September 19, 2002, in London, United Kingdom to discuss proteomics in drug discovery. The meeting gave the most up-to-date overview of current progress in this new ...

The Symposium entitled 'Conceptual Knowledge: Developmental, Biological, Functional and Computational Accounts' was held at the British Academy, London, UK on 24-26 June 2002. It was funded by the British Academy with support from the Novartis Foundation, and organized by Lorraine Tyler (University of Cambridge, UK) and Tim Shallice (University College ...

Born and educated in the Midlands, Sir Leonard Parsons made major contributions to the field of paediatrics in that area and played a leading role in the regional organisation of this specialty throughout the United Kingdom in the later years of his life. He was a founder member and later ...

Papers from the Systematics Association Symposium on "the Units of Biodiversity--Species in Practice" Held at the University of Wales, april 19-21,1995

The 1993 British Photobiology Society DNA Repair meeting was held at City University, London, on December 20th. The well supported meeting heard presentations covering diverse aspects of repair, mutation and recombination in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The meeting particularly aims to provide a forum for presentations from postgraduate and postdoctoral ...

Library has related monographic series isues, Small and Medium Forest Enterprises Series - International Inst. for Environment and Development (United Kingdom) no.s 3-10, AN: 408194, 408196, 408268, 408270, 408272, 408274