O avanço da medicina, por muito vantajoso que possa ser, acarreta também dificuldades para os profissionais de saúde e para os pacientes. Atualmente verificamos, pelo menos na maior parte dos campos que à medicina diz respeito, uma mudança de paradigma. Abandonou-se a época de p…
The purpose of the current study was to provide both additional evidence of the psychometric properties of the TIPSA by examining reliability and validity coefficients, and to add to the empirical evidence for the application of betrayal trauma theory outside the context of comp…
Ethical issues abound in health care settings and in the education of health professionals. One such issue is the practice of teaching life saving skills to health practitioners using the body of a newly dead patient, often without obtaining consent. This often hidden practice i…
This thesis is a critique of the prominent strand of contemporary liberal political theory which maintains that liberal political authority must, in some sense, rest on the free consent of those subjected to it, and that such a consensus is achieved if a polity’s basic structure…
Informed consent for pharmacogenomic testing in people with a learning disability Background Advances in genomic healthcare will enable medication to be tailored to each individual’s needs, based on subtle genetic variations. This will result in individuals being asked to consen…
Tolerance is one of the most important values that needs to be nurtured in South Africa’s contemporary multicultural and diverse society. Schools are at the epicentre of teaching tolerance. Schools established by the Hizmet Movement (Hizmet means ‘service’ in Turkish) and inspir…
This action research study investigates the use of collaboration in a faith-based Islamic school between Muslim and non-Muslim teachers and how this collaboration influences teacher sense of belonging. Data was collected during eight months using the following methods: semi-form…
Mainstream society’s characterization of activities and subgroups as abnormal can result in a long history of being shamed and pathologized, leading to discrimination and stigmatization. BDSM (bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadomasochism) is an alternative…