James J Mccartney
Biographic Data
| ID | 2051997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James J Mccartney |
| GIVEN NAMES | James J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccartney |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARTNEY J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Villanova University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cessation of the artificial delivery of food and fluids: Defining terminal illness and care
The authors argue that those permanently unconscious are by definition terminally ill and suffering from a fatal pathology, because medical treatment in their cases will not lead to a restoration of health and will prolong the dying process. They include, as medical treatment, the artificial provision of sustenance and hydration and argue that this intervention is optional when it is useless for returning the person to cognitive/ affective activi…
Unborn Persons: Pope John Paul II and the Abortion Debate
Concepts of Health and Disease: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Encephalitis and Adenine Arabinoside: An Indictment without Fact
R. J. Whitley, C. A. Alford, NIAID Collaborative Antiviral Study Group, James J. McCartney, Encephalitis and Adenine Arabinoside: An Indictment without Fact, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Aug., 1979), pp. 4+44-47
Encephalitis and Ara-A: An Ethical Case Study
I n August 1977 a collaborative antiviral study of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) reported that a new drug, adenine arabinoside (ara-A), had been tested and found to be highly useful in the treatment and cure of biopsy-proved herpes simplex encephalitis.1 The results were acclaimed as a major advance by the Washington Post2 and a viral antidote by Time magazine.3 Was this study, on which the government had spent…
Research on Children: National Commission Says 'Yes, If…'
In IPTV streaming, issues of entire frame losses limit the use of state-of-the-art video quality analyses techniques. We present an experimental evaluation of degradation in video quality when streaming different types of video in an IPTV scenario. The PacketStorm network emulator is used to emulate real IPTV networks as detailed in the ITU-T G.1050 recommendation. Our results show that in the face of equal network impairments, videos with differ…
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Encephalitis and Ara-A: An Ethical Case Study
I n August 1977 a collaborative antiviral study of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) reported that a new drug, adenine arabinoside (ara-A), had been tested and found to be highly useful in the treatment and cure of biopsy-proved herpes simplex encephalitis.1 The results were acclaimed as a major advance by the Washington Post2 and a viral antidote by Time magazine.3 Was this study, on which the government had spent…
Research on Children: National Commission Says 'Yes, If…'
In IPTV streaming, issues of entire frame losses limit the use of state-of-the-art video quality analyses techniques. We present an experimental evaluation of degradation in video quality when streaming different types of video in an IPTV scenario. The PacketStorm network emulator is used to emulate real IPTV networks as detailed in the ITU-T G.1050 recommendation. Our results show that in the face of equal network impairments, videos with differ…
Encephalitis and Adenine Arabinoside: An Indictment without Fact
R. J. Whitley, C. A. Alford, NIAID Collaborative Antiviral Study Group, James J. McCartney, Encephalitis and Adenine Arabinoside: An Indictment without Fact, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Aug., 1979), pp. 4+44-47
Concepts of Health and Disease: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Unborn Persons: Pope John Paul II and the Abortion Debate
Cessation of the artificial delivery of food and fluids: Defining terminal illness and care
The authors argue that those permanently unconscious are by definition terminally ill and suffering from a fatal pathology, because medical treatment in their cases will not lead to a restoration of health and will prolong the dying process. They include, as medical treatment, the artificial provision of sustenance and hydration and argue that this intervention is optional when it is useless for returning the person to cognitive/ affective activi…
Medicine (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Abortion (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Artificial nutrition (1 works)