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(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 ... -
(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 ...
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(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 ... -
(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, 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, 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, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)BACKGROUND: Evidence-based medicine has made a remarkable contribution by organizing and processing overwhelming amounts of information. Furthermore, some tests and treatments have been shown by EBM to be inappropriate. ... -
(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, 2011)Human beings know they are born to die. Coming to terms with this paradox sends them on a lifelong spiritual journey. This research sets out to explore the way spirituality is understood and experienced by general practitioners ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Advances in genomic medicine have lead to considerable debate over the potential for inclusion of genetic tests for susceptibility to common complex disorders in newborn screening programmes. Empirical evidence concerning ... -
(Dissertation, Postgraduate Diploma in Arts, 2010)What, if any, moral obligations we have to animals is a matter of intense debate. Views in moral and political philosophy vary from those that give animals no moral status in themselves, to those that give animals a ... -
(Journal Article, Journal of Medical Ethics, 2008)This paper discusses the announcement by a team of researchers that they identified a genetic influence for a range of ‘antisocial’ behaviours in the New Zealand Māori population (dubbed the ‘Warrior Gene’). The behaviours ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2007)
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005)Nursing practice is a very physical business. The work that most nurses do involves the use of their bodies as the primary tool of their work. Nurses take their physical selves to patients in order to carry out that work, ...
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(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 ...
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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 ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy in Bioethics, 2005)This thesis investigates the moral content of illness ontologies in different healing systems, in particular biomedicine and homeopathy. It was motivated by the wish to gain a greater understanding of the possible meaning ...
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(Thesis, Master of Bioethics and Health Law, 2004)
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(Thesis, Master of Bioethics and Health Law, 2000)
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(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 ...
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