scholarly journals "Do we murder Mary to save Jodie?" An ethical analysis of the separation of the Manchester conjoined twins

2001 ◽  
Vol 77 (911) ◽  
pp. 593-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
J J Paris
Keyword(s):  
Conjoined Twins ◽  
Ethical Analysis

scholarly journals Conjoined Twins Separation Leading to the Death of One Twin: An Expanded Ethical Analysis of Issues Facing the ICU Team

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian M. Cummings ◽  
John J. Paris
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Pediatric Intensive Care ◽  
Conjoined Twins ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Ethical Analysis ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Medical Standards ◽  
Hospital Ethics ◽  
Legal Frameworks

A recent case of conjoined twins required multiple hospitalizations in the pediatric intensive care unit and led to a difficult situation confronting staff regarding the potential separation where surgery would result in the death of one twin. The hospital ethics committee was consulted. A systematic approach was utilized to examine medical standards, historical precedents, and various ethical and legal frameworks. The ethics committee believed that either proceeding with or forgoing attempted separation surgery would be ethically acceptable. We share our reasoning and lessons learned for others facing this situation in the future.

The Enduring Cult of The Bride with White Hair: Chivalry and the Monstrous Other in the Hong Kong Fantasy-Horror

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Martin
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
International Marketing ◽  
Conjoined Twins ◽  
White Hair ◽  
Horror Film ◽  
Love Affair

The Bride with White Hair (Ronny Yu, 1993) tells the tale of a heroic swordsman’s ill-fated love affair with a woman transformed by hatred into a white-haired killer, elevated the figure of the frosty-follicled executioner into one of the most enduring icons of the Hong Kong horror film. The timelessness and mysticism of the story lends itself to a highly hybridized type of horror, offering wuxia (swordplay), magical fantasy, romance and erotic scintillation alongside bloody fights, savage violence, and a monstrous depiction of malevolent conjoined twins. This chapter examines this film as emblematic of a particular cultural moment in the development of the Hong Kong fantasy-horror, appealing to a global fanbase for its supposedly transgressive and erotic content, and analyses the film in terms of its generic hybridity, its depictions of disability and morality, as well as in the context of the international marketing and reception of cult Hong Kong horror of the 1990s.

A CASE OF PARAPAGUS DICEPHALUS CONJOINED TWINS DIAGNOSED AT 12TH WEEK OF GESTATION

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bulent Cakmak ◽  
Ferdane Yıldızhan Cakmak ◽  
Caglar Deniz ◽  
Fulya Zeynep Metin
Keyword(s):  
Conjoined Twins

scholarly journals Characterizing the coalescence area of conjoined twins to elucidate congenital disorders in singletons

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas L. Boer ◽  
Annelieke N. Schepens‐Franke ◽  
Eduard Winter ◽  
Roelof‐Jan Oostra
Keyword(s):  
Conjoined Twins ◽  
Congenital Disorders

Dilemmas of nudging in public health: an ethical analysis of a Danish pamphlet

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Busch ◽  
Emilie Kirstine Madsen ◽  
Antoinette Mary Fage-Butler ◽  
Marianne Kjær ◽  
Loni Ledderer
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Screening Programme ◽  
Screening Program ◽  
Ethical Analysis ◽  
Choice Making ◽  
The Face ◽  
Information Materials ◽  
The Individual ◽  
To Receive

Summary Nudging has been discussed in the context of public health, and ethical issues raised by nudging in public health contexts have been highlighted. In this article, we first identify types of nudging approaches and techniques that have been used in screening programmes, and ethical issues that have been associated with nudging: paternalism, limited autonomy and manipulation. We then identify nudging techniques used in a pamphlet developed for the Danish National Screening Program for Colorectal Cancer. These include framing, default nudge, use of hassle bias, authority nudge and priming. The pamphlet and the very offering of a screening programme can in themselves be considered nudges. Whether nudging strategies are ethically problematic depend on whether they are categorized as educative- or non-educative nudges. Educative nudges seek to affect people’s choice making by engaging their reflective capabilities. Non-educative nudges work by circumventing people’s reflective capabilities. Information materials are, on the face of it, meant to engage citizens’ reflective capacities. Recipients are likely to receive information materials with this expectation, and thus not expect to be affected in other ways. Non-educative nudges may therefore be particularly problematic in the context of information on screening, also as participating in screening does not always benefit the individual.

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