Tag: Non-Maleficence

• To Have, or not to Have

  There are two worlds out there, two Magisteria. Two contrasting inclinations that pass each other on the street without a wave. Strangers who sometimes know each other well. They sit, unwittingly close to each other, in the waiting room of my office. They chat and smile obligingly, trusting that their ignorance of the other is…

  gozzter

  June 2, 2015

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  acceptance, autonomy, Bell curve, Beneficence, decision to have a baby, Hamlet, Magisteria, Non-Maleficence, outliers, paedophobe, political correctness, pregnancy, regression to the mean, Selfish Shallow and Self-absorbed, societal apologue, tradition, tyranny of the Norm, Weltanschauung

• Should IVF be denied to Obese Women?

  Obesity has a long and chequered history. Different cultures have both defined it and viewed it differently: in some it was a sign of wealth and was seen as desirable; in others, a sign of weakness, dysfunction, sloth. I use the past tense advisedly, given the rise of fast food outlets throughout the world and…

  gozzter

  May 22, 2014

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  autonomy, Beneficence, BMI, cultural differences, hypertension, infertility, IVF, IVF clinics, medical ethics, Non-Maleficence, obese women, obesity, obesity complications, pregnancy complications, weight