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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 Bioethics and Health Law, 1998)
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(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 ... -
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, Master of Bioethics and Health Law, 1999)
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(Thesis, Master of Bioethics and Health Law, 2000)
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(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 ... -
(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 ... -
(Thesis, Master of Medical Science, 1995)
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(Thesis, Master of Bioethics and Health Law, 1999)
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(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, 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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(Thesis, Master of Health Sciences, 1998)
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(Thesis, Master of Bioethics and Health Law, 2004)
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2007)
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(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, 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, 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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(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, 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 ...
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