Overtreatment of Neonates

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-169
Author(s):  
ALAN R. FLEISCHMAN

To the Editor.— Dr William Silverman's recent article entitled "Overtreatment of Neonates? A Personal Retrospective"1 is a thoughtful and provocative addition to the debate on the method to decide how much treatment is appropriate for critically ill and tiny babies. He basically believes that parents should be the decision makers and that the appropriate decision is the withholding of aggressive treatments from infants at the threshold of viability. He adds his voice to others who would criticize the paternalistic physicians who ignore the values of families and merely fulfill their own "rescue fantasies (New York Times.

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Mark Hnatiuk ◽  

Given the momentum in favor of legalizing physician-assisted suicide, Diane Rehm’s recent article in the New York Times provides an opportunity to assess the arguments and assumptions used to justify and promote physician-assisted suicide, in light of Church teaching. Supporters often share the impassioned pleas of those who have personally experienced devastating suffering at the end of life. Rehm’s article is no exception, recounting both her husband’s and her close friend’s deaths. These deeply personal and intense emotions cannot be ignored by anyone arguing against physician-assisted suicide.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-321
Author(s):  
RASA GUSTAITIS

Recent judicial actions expanding individual rights to refuse life-prolonging medical intervention serve to call attention to the absence of similar development regarding severely damaged, critically ill newborns. Whereas courts have provided guidelines that will allow adults to choose death when hope for meaningful life is lost, hopelessly ill infants continue to be treated aggressively, even in violation of their physicians' reasonable judgment and parental choice. Significant rulings that allow adults to refuse life-supporting treatment grow from the same perception as gives rise to the ethical dilemmas posed by severely damaged newborns: that it is inhumane, indeed morally indefensible, to prolong life when "the burden of maintaining a corporeal existence degrades the very humanity it was meant to serve" (The New York Times, Sept 12, 1986, p A10).


2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 98-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Galliker ◽  
Jan Herman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  

Zusammenfassung. Am Beispiel der Repräsentation von Mann und Frau in der Times und in der New York Times wird ein inhaltsanalytisches Verfahren vorgestellt, das sich besonders für die Untersuchung elektronisch gespeicherter Printmedien eignet. Unter Co-Occurrence-Analyse wird die systematische Untersuchung verbaler Kombinationen pro Zähleinheit verstanden. Diskutiert wird das Problem der Auswahl der bei der Auswertung und Darstellung der Ergebnisse berücksichtigten semantischen Einheiten.


Cultura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Saman REZAEI ◽  
Kamyar KOBARI ◽  
Ali SALAMI

With the realization of the promised global village, media, particularly online newspapers, play a significant role in delivering news to the world. However, such means of news circulation can propagate different ideologies in line with the dominant power. This, coupled with the emergence of so-called Islamic terrorist groups, has turned the focus largely on Islam and Muslims. This study attempts to shed light on the image of Islam being portrayed in Western societies through a Critical Discourse Analysis approach. To this end, a number of headlines about Islam or Muslims have been randomly culled from three leading newspapers in Western print media namely The Guardian, The Independent and The New York Times (2015). This study utilizes “ideological square” notion of Van Dijk characterized by “positive presentation” of selves and “negative presentation” of others alongside his socio-cognitive approach. Moreover, this study will take the linguistic discourses introduced by Van Leeuwen regarding “representing social actors and social practices” into consideration. The findings can be employed to unravel the mystery behind the concept of “Islamophobia” in Western societies. Besides, it can reveal how specific lexical items, as well as grammatical structures are being employed by Western media to distort the notion of impartiality.


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