Otago University Research Archive
Browsing Bioethics Centre by Date Added
Otago University Research Archive
- OUR Archive Home
- →
- Division of Health Sciences Departments
- →
- Bioethics Centre
- →
- Browsing Bioethics Centre by Date Added
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Browsing Bioethics Centre by Date Added
Now showing items 1-20 of 27
-
(Thesis, Bachelor of Medical Science with Honours, 2013)New Zealand’s population, like many first world countries, is ‘ageing’. This will place our healthcare system under increasing and changing pressures, as there will be a greater proportion of older people in our population ... -
Cloning for the good of us all? : the legal and ethical issues of therapeutic cloning in New Zealand (Dissertation, Master of Bioethics and Health Law, 2005)The purpose of therapeutic cloning is to create embryos or use existing embryos from which embryonic stem cells can be harvested and replicated. While research indicates that the use of stem cells generated in this way may ...
-
(Dissertation, Master of Bioethics and Health Law, 2005)Commercial surrogacy is a valuable practice with the potential to benefit many people. Restricting it interferes with person's rights of procreational liberty, autonomy and freedom of contract. Arguments that it harms ...
-
(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2000)The problem for analysis in this thesis is the issue of why some statutory social work clients have difficulty in sustaining independence from statutory social work intervention and become self-determining. This lack of ...
-
(Thesis, Master of Bioethics and Health Law, 2000)This thesis explores the conventional problem of maternal-foetal conflict as it has arisen in cases of foetal harm in Canada, the United States, England and New Zealand. The examination of these judgments is undertaken by ...
-
(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 1998)
-
(Thesis, Master of Bioethics and Health Law, 1997)
-
(Thesis, Master of Bioethics and Health Law, 2000)
-
(Thesis, Master of Bioethics and Health Law, 2004)
-
(Thesis, Master of Medical Science, 1995)
-
(Thesis, Master of Bioethics and Health Law, 1999)
-
(Thesis, Master of Bioethics and Health Law, 1999)
-
(Thesis, Master of Bioethics and Health Law, 1998)
-
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2007)
-
(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2012)There is debate over what the proper scope of psychiatry is and what the nature of the conditions it treats are. The Psychiatrist Maurice Drury has described a number of cases of patients of his who came to him with what ... -
(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 2012)Autonomy has been labelled as one of the key principles of biomedical ethics on the premise that it has the capacity to impel universally. Although the conceptual ideals of autonomy immediately seem to conflict with other ...
-
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)The study of mental disorder is historically riddled with the inflammatory suspicion that psychosis cohabits with sacred experience. Are the revelations and voices which characterize the great spiritual leaders and innovators ... -
(Thesis, Bachelor of Medical Science with Honours, 2012)Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is an assisted reproductive technology introduced to detect embryos with genes associated with certain genetically-based diseases. The rationale for this procedure that has been ... -
(Thesis, Bachelor of Medical Science with Honours, 2012)Human stem cell research is a new field with many promises, but progress towards a clinical setting has been complicated by scientific and ethical challenges. The most heated discourse over stem cell research to date has ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)It has been suggested that a person suffers when she perceives herself to be disintegrating. It has also been suggested that a person values her life, and thereby suffers less, if her life has unity, or constitutes some ...
Now showing items 1-20 of 27