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Anonymous.
(2001). A patients' bill of rights for Canada? Canadian
Medical Association Journal, 165(7), 877. Retrieved
December 28, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database:
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5262920&db=aph
- Editorial.
Comments on the expected passage of a patients'
bill of rights in the United States, and how
this might set a precedent for Canada. Features
of the legislation which are being debated; Statement
that the impetus for the bill was public
dissatisfaction with health maintenance organizations
(HMOs), but that it is a poor solution; Mention
of the pillars of the Canada Health Act; Opinion
that Canada does not need a patients' bill of
rights.
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Anonymous
(1998). Nurses say no to lethal injections. Journal
of Nursing Management, 6(3), 183, 1/3p Retrieved
December 29, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database:
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5589801&db=aph
- Reports
the response of the International Council of Nurses
(ICN) against death penalty. Reason behind the decision
of the organization; Need for participation of nurses
and health professionals in all countries; Overview
of ICN.
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Evans, T.
(2002). A human right to health? Third World Quarterly,
23(2), 197-215. Retrieved December 28, 2002, from
Academic Search Premier database:
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=6446358&db=aph
- A right
to health is one of a range of socioeconomic rights
for which states accept an obligation under
international law. However, the politics of rights
has meant that socioeconomic rights are
rarely given the same status as liberal freedoms
associated with civil and political rights.
This article discusses the liberal rationale for
rejecting socioeconomic claims as rights and
examines the basic rights challenge to liberal
arguments. Given the dominance of liberalism, the
article concludes with an examination of the potential
for promoting a right to health within the context
of globalization
Williams,
B. (1999). The Victim's Charter: Citizens as consumers
of Criminal Justice Services. Howard Journal of
Criminal Justice, 38(4), 384-396. Retrieved December
28, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=3254148&db=aph
- The
Citizen's Charter characterised citizenship primarily
in terms of consumer rights, and in doing
so failed to take account of the complexity of the
issue. Further over-simplification occurred when
this limited conception of citizenship was extended
to victims of crime. The Victim's
Charter attempts to define crime victims
as consumers of criminal justice service, and in
the process conceals some of the choices which are
open to them and guides them away from collective
action. The Charter has instead promoted the pursuit
of managerialist objectives such as increased regulation
of the criminal justice professions by their service
users, for example by raising victims' expectations
of services without negotiating this with service
providers or providing the necessary resources.
In the process, services to offenders have had to
be cut, and central government has been able to
dissociate itself from the consequences
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Dundes Renteln,
A. (2001). The rights of the dead: Autopsies and corpse
mismanagement in multicultural societies. The South
Atlantic Quarterly, 100(4), 1005-1028. Retrieved
July 2, 2002, from ProQuest database.
- In some
cultures the dead have rights that the living are
obligated to protect. To determine whether the courts
have handled the cases appropriately, one must first
come to terms with the question of whether the dead
have rights
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Databases
For the full text article online,
sleuth the 'University
of Calgary/ Library/ Article Indexes':
Directions:
- Select
- Indexes and abstracts with links to full text articles
- Select
- Academic Search Premier or Expanded Academic ASAP
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- Connect
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Fill in
User ID and Pin
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in search words:
- rights
and human
- rights
and gay
- rights
and offender
- rights
and victim
- rights
and dying
- rights
and women
- rights
and civil
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The
'recommended only' readings for this unit are the following:
Australia
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here
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Anonymous.
(1995). Bringing closure. Nursing95, 25(8), 55-56. Retrieved
December 28, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database:
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9509071533&db=aph
- Features
the publications `Rights of Parents When
a Baby Dies' and `Rights of the Baby,' both
by the Perinatal Bereavement Team at Women's College,
Toronto. Helping families connect with their dying
or dead baby as a crucial step in the grief
process.
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Amnesty International.
(1996). Prescription for change: Health professionals
and the exposure of human rights violations. London:
AI.
- Note the
clear link that is made between human rights abuses and
professional codes of ethics.
Amnesty International.
(1979). Nurses and human rights. London: AI.
- Note this
early publication for nurses and human rights issues.
Amowitz, L. L.,
Reis, C., Lyons;, K. H., Vann, B., et al. (2002). Prevalence
of war-related sexual violence and other human rights abuses
among internally displaced persons in Sierra Leone JAMA,
287(4), 513-521. Retrieved July 30, 2002, from ProQuest
database:
- · Sierra
Leone's decade-long conflict has cost tens of thousands
of lives and all parties to the conflict have committed
abuses. Amowitz et al assess the prevalence and impact
of war-related sexual violence and other human rights
abuses among internally displaced persons in Sierra Leone.
South Africa
Jewkes, R. (2002). Preventing sexual violence: A rights-based
approach. The Lancet, 360(9339), 1092-1094.
- Such difficulties
are common to many countries, but sexual assault care
in South Africa is undergoing radical changes. A government
policy is being developed to make the health needs of
victims a priority, including provision of antiretroviral
drugs, and there are plans to train all current service
providers in treating victims of sexual violence. The
department of health is engaging in an active debate about
whether care should be provided by nurses or doctors and
whether the focus should be on meeting basic health needs
at an accessible primary care level or on more specialised
care in centres that see large numbers of cases. In this
process, rape survivors are being asked what they value
from services and, acknowledging difficulties of service
provision in a developing country, what concessions they
are prepared to make to achieve the best possible care.
The World Report
on Violence and Health,1 released this week, contains a
global overview of the epidemiology, causes, and health
consequences of sexual violence, but the question remains,
how can such violence be prevented? The level of certainty
in answering is low, since this area of research has been
substantially neglected. There has been some thorough ethnographic
research on sexual violence causation, but few epidemiological
data exist. Little research has been done on sexual violence
prevention, and thus this area has no evidence base.
United Kingdom
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Carlisle, D.
(1998). Front line battle for human rights. Nursing Times,
94 (21), 40-41.
- Note it has
been over 50 years ago that the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights was signed- December 10, 1948.
Chamberlain,
M. (2001). Human rights education for nursing students.
Nursing Ethics, 8(3), 211- 222. Retrieved December
28, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database:
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5003795&db=aph
- This article
is based largely on a research study undertaken by the
author into the teaching of human rights in nursing
courses in the UK on behalf of the national section of
the human rights organization Amnesty International. It
attempts to provide a baseline estimate of human rights
education in nursing curricula in the UK while making
suggestions on how the teaching of human rights
issues could be more clearly incorporated into nursing
curricula, ending with some recommendations for further
research
Courtenay, V.
(1998). The dead zone. Nursing Times, 94 (35), 32-33.
- Note the
need to consider the morality of practicing endotracheal
intubation on the newly deceased.
Davidson, L.
(2002). Human rights vs. public protection: English mental
health law in crisis? International Journal of Law and
Psychiatry, 25(5), 491-515.
- This article
will examine the background to the recent proposals and
then consider mental health law in England and Wales in
the context of the governmental reform.
- However, such
reform takes place in the advent of the incorporation
of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms into English law by way of the Human Rights Act
1998. This inevitably heightens the tension between the
right of the mentally disordered person to liberty and
that of the general public to protection. Indeed, the
HRA 1998 is already having an impact on mental health
law. Thus, the second part of the article is devoted to
a discussion of the extent to which the proposed changes
in this area are likely to comply with the provisions
of the ECHR.
Reed, L &
Driscoll, J. (1998). Humans Rights. Nursing Times, 93
(50), 17.
- Note the
fundamental rights that matter in the field of health
care, pointed out by the authors (Reed & Driscoll,
1998, p. 17).
United States
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Glendenning,
A. (2002). Refusal of blood because of religious beliefs:
A patient's right to die. Journal of Emergency
Nursing, 28(3), 196-198.
Goll-McGee,
B. (1999). The role of the clinical care nurse in
critical care. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly,
22 (1), 8-18.
Groner, J. I. (2002). Lethal injection: A stain
on the face of medicine. British Medical Journal,
325(7371), 1026-1028. Retrieved December 29, 2002,
from Academic Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=7737577&db=aph
- Discusses
the controversial issue of physician involvement
in capital punishment in the U.S. Description
of lethal injection process; Outline of history
and development of capital punishment; Opposition
of the American Medical Association (AMA) and other
medical organizations to physician involvement;
AMA's rules against physician involvement; Comparison
of physician involvement in the U.S. to that of
Hitler's euthanasia program.
Herman,
S., & Wasserman, C. (2001). A role for victims
in offender reentry. Crime & Delinquency, 47(3),
428-445. Retrieved December 28, 2002, from Academic
Search Premier database:
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5044231&db=aph
- The
current scale of offender reentry creates unprecedented
challenges for those, including victims,
who have an interest in the successful reintegration
of offenders into the community. Current problem-solving
approaches emphasize the need for continuity between
in-custody and postrelease programs and the importance
of partnerships and collaborations in supervision
and support for offenders. These developments offer
increasing opportunities to victims and victims
organizations because their experience and knowledge
are often directly relevant to reentry issues. Increased
victim involvement in the planning, management,
and implementation of reentry policies and programs
can contribute positively to better informed decisions
and the achievement of reentry goals
Lenehan,
G. P. (1999). Patients' Bill of Rights offers welcomed
protection of patients, nurses, and emergency departments.
Journal of Emergency Nursing, 25(1), 3-4.
- The
Democratic version, called the Patient's Bill of
Rights (H.R. 3605 and S. 1890 in 1998's 105th Congress),
included strong guarantees for both nurses and patients,
eg, a provision that health plans would be required
to pay for emergency services whenever a "prudent
layperson" believed it was necessary to go
to an emergency department.
- Thus
if a person had crushing chest pain radiating down
his left arm and went to an emergency department,
the health plan would have to pay for services on
the basis of initial presentation, even if a myocardial
infarction was eventually ruled out. This provision
seems reasonable. In fact, it is difficult to see
how emergency departments can survive if insurers
can refuse to pay when ED resources are used. But
as it now stands, many health plans can arbitrarily
refuse to pay for services after someone has been
seen in an emergency department for what a "prudent
layperson" (or a "prudent ED staff")
would, and should, consider an emergency.
- The
Democrats' Patients' Bill of Rights provides protection
for nurses and other health care workers who express
concerns about unsafe care or patient neglect, so-called
"whistle-blowers," against retaliation
such as being fired or harassed. No such provision
is included in the Republican legislation, either
in the House or Senate
Lippke,
R. L. (1998). Arguing against inhumane and degrading
punishment. Criminal Justice Ethics, 17(1),
29, 13-41. Retrieved December 28, 2002, from Academic
Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=1341522&db=aph
- Focuses
on the issue of inhumane and degrading punishments.
Discussion on the suggestion to weigh a prohibition
on inhumane and degrading punishment against the
attainment of other moral goods; Problems with accounts
of the justification of punishment that rely on
the notion that offenders forfeit the fight to equal
concern and respect; Rights of offenders.
Mayor, S. (2001). President Bush outlines patients'
bill of rights for US. British Medical Journal,
322(7289), 752. Retrieved December 28, 2002, from
Academic Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=4264361&db=aph
- Announces
plans by United States President George W. Bush
to introduce a patients' bill of rights.
How the bill is expected to include five
key elements, including how patients should have
the right to emergency treatment in their
nearest hospital emergency room; How a similar bill
failed to become law during the administration
of former President Bill Clinton due to disagreement
over patient compensation; Inclusion of a
detailed review process to curb the increased number
of healthcare claims
US
Perkins, S. C. (1992). Guide to researching international
human rights law. Case Western Reserve Journal
of International Law, 24(2), 379-434. Retrieved
December 28, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database:
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9706131928&db=aph
- Presents
information which is intended to serve as an introduction
to international human rights law research.
Overview of the natural law and human rights;
Highlight of the international human rights
law; Adjudication of human rights issues; Information
about the United Nations; Recommended periodicals
for the researcher of international human rights
law; Human rights symposia, collections and
panels; Conclusion.
Reeves, K. (1997). Euthanasia, assisted suicide, and
the right to die [Guest Editorial]. Journal of
Emergency Nursing, 23(5), 393-394.
Schneider,
H. J. (2001). Victimological developments in the world
during the past three decades: A study of comparative
victimology-Part 2. International Journal of Offender
Therapy & Comparative Criminology, 45(5),
539-555. Retrieved December 28, 2002, from Academic
Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5341727&db=aph
- During
the past three decades, 10 international symposia
on victimology have taken place in different parts
of the world. This article presents in two parts
a comprehensive overview of the discussion results
of these symposia and of the most important literature
contributions to criminological victimization research
over the past three decades. In the first part of
the report, the risk and causes of victimization
are discussed. In this second part of the article,
the deliberation of damage suffered by the victims-the
negative psychical and social effects-is emphasized.
Damage suffered by the indirect victim (covictim)
is highlighted. The significance of the victim-offender
sequence is mitigated to a certain extent. As far
as recidivist victimization is concerned, the model
of the victim career is developed. The constitutional
and procedural legal rights of the victims and potential
victims are elucidated
Whitney, S., & Mian, P. (1998). Life after death?
Ethical questions raised after a request for postmortem
sperm retrieval in the emergency department. Journal
of Emergency Nursing, 24(6), 492-494.
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references for this unit can be found in 'forensic
references'
of the forensic sourcebooks.
- Sleuth
'forensic reference' database for:
- Forensic
medicine
- Nurse
death investigator
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recommended for this unit are:
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required websites to sleuth for this unit are the following:
Australia
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(Web)
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Insert website
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Canada
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Resources
(Web)
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Department of
Justice Canada (1982). Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Constitution Act, 1982 (79). Retrieved from http://canada.justice.gc.ca/Loireg/charte/const_en.html
- Note the
1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
International
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Amnesty International
(1999). Retrieved July 8, 2002 from the AI Website:
http://www.web.amnesty.org
- Amnesty International
is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote
all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights and other international standards.
In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free
all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials
for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture
and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political
killings and "disappearances"; and oppose human
rights abuses by opposition groups.
Amnesty International
(1999). Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Retrieved
July 8, 2002 from the AI Website: http://www.web.amnesty.org
- Note the
Link to Universal Declaration of Human Rights under About
AI
- Note the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights was adopted and proclaimed
by General Assembly Resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December
1948.
Court TV Online.
(1999, March 4). Amnesty International report blasts sexual
abuse of women in U.S. prisons. Associated Press. Retrieved
June 11, 2002 from http://www.courttv.com/national/1999/0304/amnesty_ctv.htm
- Note the
forensic issues of power/authority violation with regard
to sexual abuse and mistreatment.
United Kingdom
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here
United States
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American Nurses
Association. (1995). ANA Website. Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/
- Note: The
cite represents nation's 2.2 million U.S. registered nurses.
American Nurses
Association. (1995). ANA Position Statements. Retrieved
from ANA Website: http://nursingworld.org/search/vfp_search.cfm
- Note the
position statements that apply to human rights.
Emergency Nurses
Association. (2000). The use of the newly deceased patient
for procedural practice. ENA Position Statement (9/00).
Retrieved from Emergency Nurses Association Website: http://www.ena.org/posistate/index.htm
- Note the position
statement on the use of the newly deceased patient for
practice.
Emergency Nurses
Association. (2000). Protection of human subjects' rights.
ENA Position Statement (9/00). Retrieved from Emergency
Nurses Association Website: http://www.ena.org/posistate/index.htm
- Note the
position statements with regards to human subjects' rights:
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- Forensic medicine
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Rights - Human/Dying/Offender/Victim/Patient
