Humane Health Care International articles from June 1997

Humane Health Care International archives from June 1997

Duty to witness.
June 22, 1997... This issue of Humane Health Care International presents one facet of a complex chronic disease--cystic fibrosis. It looks at cystic fibrosis through the eyes of those who have the illness, and the family members who care for them. Through these...

Healing powers.
June 22, 1997... It is a commonplace to say that, in a lifetime, most human beings use only a fraction of their latent, God-given resources. In a recent conversation, Marion Woodman, the renowned Jungian analyst and a long-time supporter of this journal,...

Message from Mila Mulroney honorary director of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis foundation.
June 22, 1997... The articles concerning cystic fibrosis in this issue of Humane Health Care International are a vivid reminder of the human face of cystic fibrosis, where every step forward can be a struggle. The young people whose thoughts and words are...

Response to suffering: "mystery" as option.
June 22, 1997... O! I have suffer'd With those that I saw suffer Shakespeare, The Tempest 1,ii Correspondence and reprint requests: Abbyann Lynch, PhD Director, Ethics in Health Care Associates, P. O. Box C 35, Station Q, Toronto, Ontario, M4T 2L7...

Cooperative approaches to health-care rationing.
June 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Jane Fulton PhD, The Health Group, RR # 1, Cobden, Ontario, K0J 1K0 Canada and the United States have joined Australia, New Zealand and several European nations in adopting a new political and business...

Humane medicine: hope helps.
June 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Howard Spiro, Program for Humanities in Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208019, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, Connecticut, 06520-8019 Mainstream (allopathic) and alternative...

What is love?
June 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Ghislain Devroede, Centre universitaire de sante de l'Estrie, Pavillon Fleurimont, Departement de chirurgie, 3001 - 12e Avenue Nord, Fleurimont, Quebec, J1H 5N4 The body never lies. Both sexuality...

Conflicts between protecting and respecting women: the prohibition of sex-selected birth.
June 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Bernard M. Dickens, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 78 Queens Park, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C5 Many women and men have greeted the social and legal empowerment of women to make their own decisions...

Children on the walls.
June 22, 1997... This story is dedicated to my Mother, Isabel (Lariviere) Ecker, who passed away on Aug. 17, 1992. Editor's Note: Mark Lariviere died of his disease on March 10, 1997. Idiscovered the children on the walls during a visit to The Cystic...

Cystic fibrosis: past, present and future.
June 22, 1997... The first reference to cystic fibrosis (CF), the most common lethal recessive genetic disorder in Caucasians, is not in medical texts but in European folklore of approximately 500 years ago. "Woe to that child which when kissed on the forehead...

Cystic fibrosis in Canada: a story about peope taking action to bring about change.
June 22, 1997... Mark Lariviere's story (The Children on the Walls, in this issue of Humane Health Care International) begins around the time when cystic fibrosis (CF) was just becoming recognized in Canada. An inherited disorder affecting breathing and...

Piece of my heart: a chaplain's perspective on cystic fibrosis.
June 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Rev. Dr. Anne Simmonds, Director, Chaplaincy Services, The Wellesley Central Hospital, 160 Wellesley Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4Y 1J3 Recently I met a nurse from Newfoundland who is active in the...

Warrior.
June 22, 1997... And there he lies in a heap, only feet from his bed. The once bright eyes, shut tight and quivering. Breathing unsteady and laboured he is not the warrior people picture as they choose to leave the fight to a spent man. ...

Tired was there again.
June 22, 1997... Tired was there when he woke up in the morning, As he lay there, it seemed to be on top of him. Needless to say, it was very difficult for him to move. Tired was there when he got out to the kitchen and even beat him into the...

Blind to a lifetime of colours.
June 22, 1997... The dead and the dying cry out as bodies of the healthy are poisoned by their minds; starving for the joys of life, Blind to a lifetime of colours. The hope that has left our bodies cannot find a home in hearts so hard and empty. ...

Ethical implications of human suffering.
June 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Nuala P. Kenny, Director, Bioethics Education and Research, Room C-5 CRC, 5849 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4H7 One of the fundamental tenets of the Hippocratic tradition is physician...

Bioethics and cultural pluralism.
June 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Kerry Bowman, Department of Social Work, The Toronto Hospital Western Division, 399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8 In recent decades Canada, which has a substantial aboriginal population and...

Prothanasia: personal fulfillment and readiness to die.
June 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Constantine J. Falliers, Allergy and Asthma Clinic, 360 South Garfield, Denver, Colorado, 80209 The steady spate of papers about euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide should remind us that death can...

Towards taming the tiger: reflections on Prothanasia: personal fulfillment and readiness to die.
June 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Margaret A. Somerville, McGill Center for Medicine, Ethics and Law, 3690 Peel Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1W9 Death is a complex issue for us both as individuals and as a society. Dr. Falliers'...

Experience with angels: the value of myth-making in adapting to neurological illness.
June 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Robyn-Marie Butt, R.R.#3, Woodstock, Ontario, N4S 7V7 The art of healing lies not always in its ability to suppress a condition, but sometimes simply in its ability to understand, elucidate, and name a...

Concepts and cases in nursing ethics 2d ed.
June 22, 1997... Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ontario, 1996; 300 pp; Cdn$26.95 US$22.95; ISBN 1-55111-082-2. Ethical analysis is a matter of examining our opinions about right and wrong and probing the moral ideals that bear on moral judgement and...

Enigma of health: the art of healing in a scientific age.
June 22, 1997... Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1996; 173 pp; ISBN: 0-8047-2691-4. [W]e must address the fact that the real mystery lies in the hidden character of health. Health does not actually present itself to us. (1) According...

CF and you: a guide for adolescents.
June 22, 1997... Carleton University Press, Ottawa, Ontario, 1996; 56 pp; ISBN 0-88629-309-X. CF and You, A Guide for Adolescents is a 56 page paperback book, written by the cystic fibrosis (CF) team at the CF Clinic of the Children's Hospital of Eastern...