The field of agromedicine faces numerous policy and organizational development challenges as it enters the 21st Century. To gauge these, the authors surveyed attendees of the 14th Annual Meeting of the North American Agromedicine Consortium (NAAC) in Charleston, South Carolina, in November 2001. Survey questions dealt with agromedicine policy issues, ...

sistent with the power law scaling # 3/4 . The observed gradual crossover appears to be at odds with previous theoretical predictions, but it corresponds to a simple structure of the retardation spectrum. 2000 The Society of Rheology. #S0148-6055#00#00904-4# I. INTRODUCTION Understanding the origin of the elasticity of the cytoplasm ...

Institutional policy makers have a useful resource in the "Joint Statement on Preventing and Resolving Ethical Conflicts Involving Healthcare Providers and Persons Receiving Care". Yet, some aspects of the joint statement pose challenges for institutional policy development and merit further reflection. With the aim of clarifying and augmenting the recommendations ...

Late modernity has been witnessing the erosion of the dimorphic sexual paradigm that, in both strong and weak forms, has characterized human history as we know it. Recent discoveries in biology and the social sciences have combined with altered patterns in human sexual behavior to raise critical new questions about ...

Whether a gain for the environment or an impediment to international trade, the Basel Convention attempts to legislate global environmental accountability.

The Internet offers psychotherapists a new communication medium through which they can deliver psychotherapeutic interventions that are appropriate to the medium. Yet online psychotherapy also offers new ethical challenges for therapists interested in providing online psychotherapeutic services. The differences between interactive text-based communication and in-person verbal communication create new ethical ...

Held every two years, the International Congress of Chemotherapy (ICC) represents one of the most important scientific meetings focusing on antimicrobial and anticancer research as well as therapeutics. The chairman of the scientific committee of the congress, Richard Wise (Professor in Clinical Microbiology, Birmingham University, UK) described the meeting as ...

IEEE 1999 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS'99). Remote Sensing of the System Earth - A Challenge for the 21st Century. Hamburg, 28 June - 2 July 1999, 750 - 752

Metaclinical implications of psychotherapy with individuals traumatized by violent political repression are explored, with an emphasis on ethical concerns in treatment. Issues addressed include the relevance of the sociopolitical context in the conceptualization of the trauma, the challenge of transcending cultural frameworks, the clinician's role in the reversal of collective ...

The role of an expert witness in ethics, as part of a legal proceeding, is examined in this essay. The essay argues that the use of such expertise rests on confusions about normative and non-normative ethics compounded by misunderstandings about the challenges of moral argument in secular, morally pluralistic societies.

This article investigates transsexualism and our creation of a state of medicolegal limine for transsexuals. The article addresses transsexuality as it is currently defined and explores our dichotomization of sex and gender. The author discusses both the social construction and the praxis of transsexuality, highlighting the medicolegal implications resulting from ...

Today psychotherapists face a challenge quite different from Karl Menninger's early efforts to foster an understanding between the new science of psychiatry and traditional religion. Today the mental health sciences are struggling with the contradictions and conflicts about society's values and spirituality that are currently vexing us all. The challenge ...

African American elders are a diverse group whose values and beliefs are part of the ethics of United States society. The interplay between these beliefs and the health care system offers many challenges for the geriatrician. Addressing issues of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, truth-telling, confidentiality, and justice are important in caring ...

Agreeing in large part with Cameron, Robert D. Orr nonetheless raises some questions. He points out the theological origins of bioethics in the 1960s, while admitting that the field has since become secularized. Autonomy's challenge to Hippocratic paternalism has brought real benefits but also abuses. Bioethics addresses more than procedural ...

The relationship between neuropsychiatric disorders and dysfunction of subcortical structures is the theme of the 1994 joint meeting of the British and American Neuropsychiatric Associations, to be held July 21-24, 1994, in Newport, Rhode Island. In this essay Dr. Salloway, chair of the Scientific Program Committee, and Dr. Cummings, director-elect ...

The employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became effective on July 26, 1992 for many employers. This article is intended to provide practical guidance for compliance with ADA from the combined perspectives of the labor attorney and the industrial psychologist. The article addresses the legal requirements of ...

Modern medical ethics developed in America after mid-century chiefly at theological schools, but discourse on bioethics soon moved to the pluralist-secular settings of the academy and the clinic, where it acquired a philosophical and intentionally non-religious cast. An effort was made, on the grounds of 'liberal culture' and 'late Enlightenment ...

The 25th anniversary of the founding of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry is cause for reflection on the scientific development of clinical chemistry as a discipline within the field of medicine. It also provides an opportunity to review the aims of the Society's activities over the next decade, and ...

The Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation is on the brink of its fifth decade. The past year has witnessed some remarkable achievements. On February 8th and 9th, 1990, the Council, past presidents, and other key individuals met to frame the future direction of, and draft the Mission and Goals for, ...

David Novak takes up the methodological issue of how substantive religious perspectives can be communicated in a pluralistic society. Novak notes that while "secularism" was historically welcomed by the Jewish community, Jewish thinkers now likewise face the challenge of speaking out of a tradition to a secular audience. Novak holds ...

Professionals must be proactive in meeting the needs of clients from cultural and ethnic backgrounds that differ from "mainstream America." Maintaining ethnic identity appears to be a trend in today's society. Ethnic and Regional Food Practices--A Series is one step being made in the area of nutrition counseling and education ...

Papers from Third Symposium on Fire Ecology held at Freiburg University in May 1989 and sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation

The paper presents an overview of political and professional committees in the Federal Republic of Germany dealing with issues of biomedical ethics. The prevailing tendencies of paternalistic attitudes, the worst-case-scenario argumentation method, and the unfortunate practice of applying general principles rather than mid-level principles in the assessment of concrete challenges ...

This report, which was commissioned by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, is an overview of the situation concerning current and future trends in international migration in Europe. The most important components of the current scene are identified as "(i) persisting unemployment despite the economic recovery in Europe, ...

The author presents a summary of the nature of the scientific, social, and individual challenges and some of the successes and failures in meeting them. Also presented are some optimistic and perhaps "futuristic" predictions of whether our responses to these challenges will be successful two or three decades from now.

The influx of around thirty million European immigrants into the United States in the relatively short time of a little more than a hundred years (1815-1920's) created a great challenge for the American people in their efforts to build a strong society. The newly arrived immigrants had the challenge of ...

Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002.