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A role for doctors in assisted dying? An analysis of legal regulations and medical professional positions in six European countries
An extensive debate about assisted suicide and euthanasia has been taking place in westernized countries during the last twenty years. Traditionally, the medical profession has maintained a clear distance from euthanasia and assisted suicide, but this distance can no longer be justified by simply referring to the law.
This paper analyses the legal and, in particular, medical professional positions with respect to the doctor’s role in assisted dying in certain Western European countries (Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom) and discusses their implications for doctors
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Content of health status reports of people seeking assisted suicide: a qualitative analysis
Erworben im Rahmen der Schweizer Nationallizenzen (http://www.nationallizenzen.ch)Two right-to-die organisations offer assisted suicide in Switzerland. The specific legal situation allows assistance to Swiss and foreign citizens. Both organisations require a report of the person's health status before considering assistance. This qualitative study explored these reports filed to legal authorities after the deaths of individuals in the area of Zurich. Health status reports in the legal medical dossiers of the deceased were analysed using content analysis and Grounded Theory. From 421 cases of assisted suicide (2001-2004), 350 reports on health status were filed. Many cases contained diagnosis lists only. Other reports had more elaborate reports revealing that some physicians were aware about the patient's death wish and the intention to solicit assisted suicide. Physicians' attitudes ranged from neutral to rather depreciative. Few physicians openly referred the patient to the organisations and supported the patient's request by highlighting a history of suffering as well as reporting understanding and agreement with the patient's wish to hasten death. In the health status reports five categories could be identified. Some files revealed that physicians were aware of the death wish. The knowledge and recognition of the patient's death wish varied from no apparent awareness to strongly supportive. This variety might be due to difficulties to discuss the death wish with patients, but might also reflect the challenge to avoid legal prosecution in the country of origin. To require comparable health status reports as requirements for the right-to-die organisations might be difficult to pursue
Magnetic moments of the 3/2 resonances and their quark spin structure
We discuss magnetic moments of the baryons based on an earlier model
for the baryon magnetic moments, allowing for flavor symmetry breaking in the
quark magnetic moments as well as a general quark spin structure. From our
earlier analysis of the nucleon-hyperon magnetic moments and the measured
values of the magnetic moments of and we predict the
other magnetic moments and deduce the spin structure of the resonance
particles. We find from experiment that the total spin polarization of the
decuplet baryons, , is considerably smaller than the
non-relativistic quark model value of 3, although the data is still not good
enough to give a precise determination.Comment: 13 pages, REVTeX, 2 figures, minor clarifying change
Unique properties of quadratic solitons
Quadratic spatial solitons exist in media with second order nonlinearities near the phase-matching condition for frequency mixing processes involving two or three waves of different frequency. Discussed here are a number of properties of these special solitons which are different from those of other spatial solitons which rely on optically induced index changes for guiding. First, the self-guiding properties of quadratic solitons are shown to have completely different origins than solitons which rely on index changes. Second, it is shown that there exists a large variety of quadratic solitons which contain two or three distinct spectral components with relative amplitudes depending on the phase mismatch, dimensionality of the propagation geometry, the soliton power and the launching conditions. Third, under appropriate conditions, solitons can be formed even when the group velocity directions for the spectral components lead to walk-off under normal circumstances. Fourth, for type II phase-matching in bulk crystals, seeded interactions lead to saturating amplifier characteristics
Quark Orbital Angular Momentum in the Baryon
Analytical and numerical results, for the orbital and spin content carried by
different quark flavors in the baryons, are given in the chiral quark model
with symmetry breaking. The reduction of the quark spin, due to the spin
dilution in the chiral splitting processes, is transferred into the orbital
motion of quarks and antiquarks. The orbital angular momentum for each quark
flavor in the proton as a function of the partition factor and the
chiral splitting probability is shown. The cancellation between the spin
and orbital contributions in the spin sum rule and in the baryon magnetic
moments is discussed.Comment: 26 pages, 3 figures, revised version with minor eq. no and ref. no.
corrections. Discussion on the spin and a new ref. are adde
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