Humane Health Care International articles

Recent articles from Humane Health Care International

Rich like Us
September 22, 1997... A provincial government passes into law arbitrary legislation (Bill 26) that severely constrains the autonomy of a major profession and, thereby, the capacity of its members to serve the people. Once passed into law, the provisions of this bill are not implemented. How are we to understand...

Celebration.
September 22, 1997... With its next issue (Winter 1997), Humane Health Care International will cease publication after almost 13 years. The journal was founded (then called Humane Medicine) to encourage an open dialogue between physicians, nurses, and other health-care professionals and the wider concerned...

Cowardice and Reality: The Sick Spouse Syndrome
September 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Eli A. Friedman, State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11203, U.S.A. As a boy, over a half century ago, frightened and quaking over a dreaded confrontation with reality, some unremembered...

Love
September 22, 1997... Love is a very difficult word to define. Physically, love is a chemical reaction we experience in our brain, likewise with any other emotion. Yet love is much more than that. Love is a unique emotion. All emotions like sadness or anger are experienced individually. Love however is an...

Future of Patient-Centred Ethics in Ontario
September 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Blake Woodside, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2C4, Canada. Dr. Kotalik's thought-provoking paper in this issue raises numerous important issues related to Bill 26, the...