Humane Health Care International articles from September 1997

Humane Health Care International archives from September 1997

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Give Us Courage and Gaiety and the Quiet Mind
September 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Jane Fulton, The Health Group, RR#1, Cobden, Ontario K0J 1K0, Canada. The phrase "give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind . . ." appears in a prayer by Robert Louis Stevenson. A hand-painted copy of...

Sexuality, the Patient, and the Doctor
September 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, Canada. On January 29, 1997, Le Devoir noted...

Doctor-Patient Relationship: A Postmodern Perspective
September 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: E. Janet Warren, 245 Pelham Road, Suite 204, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 1X8, Canada. Jane, a woman in her thirties, comes to see me regarding birth control. She has read extensively about the "pill,"...

Can Patient-Centred Ethics in Ontario Survive Bill 26?
September 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Jaro F. Kotalik, Thunder Bay Regional Cancer Centre, 290 Munro Street, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7A 7T1, Canada. Third-party payers, such as insurance companies in the United States or provincial governments...

Using "Self" in the Nurse-Patient Relationship
September 22, 1997... When one is stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. -- Ann Morrow Lindbergh Correspondence and reprint requests: Judith Buchanan, Associate Professor,...

Decision Procedure for Achieving an Informed Consent
September 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Irene Switankowsky, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada. A physician obtaining patient consent is considerably different from a...

Sharing the Benefits of HIV/AIDS Research with Resource-Poor Countries: AZT for Pregnant Women in Africa?
September 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Dale M. Needham, 18 Ilderbrook Circle, PO Box 266, Ilderton, Ontario N0M 2A0, Canada. Katherine Nyirenda, the first woman in Zambia to publicly declare her HIV positive status, is no stranger to Canadians...

Music Therapy in Palliative Care
September 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Jennifer Jonas, 186 Old Orchard Grove, Toronto, Ontario M5M 2E5, Canada. We've heard time and again that music can "soothe the savage breast" or that "music hath charms to heal." The power of music has...

Blossoming of the Spirit: The Gift of Children
September 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Kaiser Ali, Saskatoon Cancer Centre, 20 Campus Drive, University of Saskatchewan Campus, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 4H4, Canada. A man of wisdom once said, "children are the best teachers." Working with...

Conspiracy of Silence: The Story of Mrs. G
September 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Michael Dworkind, Director of Palliative Care Services, SMBD Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Chemin de la Cote-Sainte-Catherine, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2, Canada. The Supportive Care Team (the palliative...

Struggle to Choose: A Foreword
September 22, 1997... It is said that a society can be judged by how it treats its young and its old. Wendy Hogarth's paper, "Amniocentesis: The Struggle to Choose," raises the issue of how we treat our young and extends our responsibilities back into the time before...

Amniocentesis: The Struggle to Choose
September 22, 1997... Correspondence to: Wendy Hogarth, c/o Dr. J.R. Wilkes, Centennary Health Centre, The Shoniker Clinic, 2877 A Ellesmere Road, Scarborough, Ontario M1E 4C1, Canada. My third child was born with the chromosomal abnormality, trisomy 13. He died...

Clinical Geneticist Responds to Wendy (Hograt): An Afterword
September 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Malgorzata J.M. Nowaczyk, Clinical Geneticist and Pediatrician, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Pathology, McMaster University Medical Centre, 1200 Main Street W., Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada. On...

Genetic Counsellor Responds to Wendy (Hogart): An Afterword
September 22, 1997... Correspondence and reprint requests: Cheryl Cytrybaum, The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Clinical Genetics, 555 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada. Wendy has shared with us her poignant and highly personal story about...

Partnering and health development: the Kathmandu connection.
September 22, 1997... Melville G. Kerr Copublished by the International Development Research Centre and University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 1996; 250pp; $27.95; ISBN 1-895176-73-5 (UC Press), ISBN 0-88936-819-8 (Intern Devel Res Cent) At a time...

Good pediatrician: an ethics curriculum for use in Canadian pediatric residency programs.
September 22, 1997... Edited by Dr. Abbyann Lynch The Pediatric Ethics Network, Toronto, Ontario, 1996; 348pp; $50.00; ISBN 0-9690091-4-3 This splendid, innovative ethics curriculum is destined to help medical educators, residents, and all those concerned...

Doing right: a practical guide to ethics for medical trainees and physicians.
September 22, 1997... Philip C. Hebert Oxford University Press, Don Mills, Ontario, 1996; 220pp; $19.95; ISBN 0-19-541104-8 This book aims to do right. It is such a good idea! A brief book on clinical ethics for the medical trainee that offers an approach...

Facing death: where culture, religion, and medicine meet.
September 22, 1997... Edited by Howard M. Spiro, Mary G. McCrea Curnen, and Lee Palmer Wandel Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1996; 198pp; $40.00; ISBN 0-300-06349-0 This book's purpose, according to Daniel Callahan's foreword, is to open up...

Ethics of human gene therapy.
September 22, 1997... Leroy Walters and Julie Gage Palmer Oxford University Press, New York, 1997; 209pp; $42.95; ISBN 0-19-505955-7 This book is timely, topical, and well written. Buy it. It should be read by a wide audience. It is written so that a...

Death comes for Peter Pan.
September 22, 1997... Joan Brady Martin Secker and Warburg Limited, London, England, 1996; 310pp; [pounds sterling]15.99; ISBN 0-736-20261 British author Joan Brady, the winner of the Whitbread writer's prize for her 1993 novel, Theory of War, describes...

First cut: a season in the human anatomy lab.
September 22, 1997... Albert Howard Carter III Picador USA, New York, N.Y., 1997; 308pp; $31.99; ISBN 0-312-16840-3 In First Cut, Howard Carter, a Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Eckerd College (Florida), describes his experiences...

Mildred (Barry) Friedman
September 22, 1997... Mildred (Barry) Friedman, a medical writer and patient advocate, died at University Hospital of Brooklyn on September 21, 1997 of complications of type 1 diabetes at the age of 61. Following the birth of her third child, Mrs. Friedman developed...