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    <title><![CDATA[Experience in Specific Disorders]]></title> 
    <link>http://lietz.allisfun.com/post1289</link> 
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An extensive literature has evolved&nbsp;over the past several years addressing the long term use of&nbsp;artificial enteral feeding in patients with advanced dementia,&nbsp;including advanced Alzheimer’s dementia, a terminal disorder.&nbsp;Survival is the variable most often measured. Thom]]></description>
    <pubDate>2009-12-27 16:05:13</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What Is Genetic Trait?]]></title> 
    <link>http://lietz.allisfun.com/post1285</link> 
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What does it mean to call something a genetic trait or disease?&nbsp;Clearly, at least part of that judgment rests on some kind of&nbsp;causal assessment. If a disease is genetic, then it is caused by&nbsp;one or more of an organism’s genes.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2009-12-26 05:26:25</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What Counts as a Genetic Trait]]></title> 
    <link>http://lietz.allisfun.com/post1284</link> 
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This seems to exactly capture at least something important&nbsp;about society’s concept of genetic disease. It can be put&nbsp;perhaps more precisely in terms of covariance. When some&nbsp;trait is identified as genetic, it can be argued that (in that&nbsp;population) the covariance of the trait with some genetic&nbsp;factor(s) is greater ]]></description>
    <pubDate>2009-12-26 05:24:31</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Health Professional Codes]]></title> 
    <link>http://lietz.allisfun.com/post1266</link> 
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While beneficence is important to many philosophical and&nbsp;religious systems of ethics, it is central to the health professions.&nbsp;The Hippocratic Oath clearly states that the physician’s&nbsp;actions are “for the benefit of the sick” (see Appendix&nbsp;for this and other codes an]]></description>
    <pubDate>2009-12-19 13:57:40</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Beneficence and Autonomy]]></title> 
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How beneficence is put into practice depends on how it is&nbsp;modified by other principles. Especially important in this&nbsp;regard is respect for autonomy or self-determination. Another&nbsp;way to put this is to ask whose notion of good will be

definitive. Respect for autonomy means that good will be&nbsp;defined by the rec]]></description>
    <pubDate>2009-12-18 18:00:00</pubDate>
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