Freddy Mortier
Biographic Data
| ID | 329219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Freddy Mortier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Freddy |
| FAMILY NAME | Mortier |
| SIGNATURE | MORTIER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5390-3508 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Physicians’ preferences for their own end of life: A comparison across North America, Europe, and Australia
OBJECTIVE: To study physicians' personal preferences for end-of-life practices, including life-sustaining and life-shortening practices, and the factors that influence preferences. DESIGN: A cross-sectional survey (May 2022-February 2023). SETTING: Eight jurisdictions: Belgium, Italy, Canada, USA (Oregon, Wisconsin, and Georgia), Australia (Victoria and Queensland). PARTICIPANTS: Three physician types: general practitioners, palliative care physi…
Fighters, thinkers and bees: How racialized minority students experience learning about ethnic inequality in education
Educational research acknowledges the significant challenges faced by racialized minority students at school. This interview-based study exam-ines the experiences of racialized minority students in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region in Belgium, regarding a social science curricu-lum that addresses the power dynamics and privilege involved in per-petuating ethnic inequality in Flemish education. The study aims to develop typologies of students’ r…
Characteristics and outcomes of peer consultations for assisted dying request assessments: Cross-sectional survey study among attending physicians
Background: In most jurisdictions where assisted dying practices are legal, attending physicians must consult another practitioner to assess the patient's eligibility. Consequently, in some jurisdictions, they can rely on the expertise of trained assisted dying consultants (trained consultants). However, these peer consultations remain under-researched. We examined the characteristics and outcomes of peer consultations to assess an assisted dying…
Concrete Experiences and Support Needs Regarding the Euthanasia Practice in Adults With Psychiatric Conditions: A Qualitative Interview Study Among Healthcare Professionals and Volunteers in Belgium
The health care professionals and volunteers reported many positive and negative experiences in dealing with euthanasia requests in adult psychiatry. They reported several support needs across the extensive euthanasia trajectory, pertaining to concrete management of thorny issues that guidelines do not (yet) touch on. Important implications of our study relate to tackling these existing issues, and to paying sufficient attention to the impact of …
Physicians’ Experiences and Perceptions of Environmental Factors Affecting Their Practices of Continuous Deep Sedation until Death: A Secondary Qualitative Analysis of an Interview Study
As previous research has paid little attention to environmental factors affecting the practice of continuous deep sedation until death (CDS), we aimed to explore these using physicians' experiences and perceptions. We performed an interpretative thematic analysis of primary data from a qualitative interview study conducted from February to May 2019 in Belgium with 47 physicians. Structural factors were identified: the lack of professional and/or …
Control Measures for Continuous Deep Sedation Until Death: A Framing Analysis of the Views of Physicians
Physicians have been subject to increasing external control to improve their medical practice, and scholars have theorized extensively about their opposition to such control. However, little empirical attention has been paid to the views and reasoning that lie behind this opposition. An in-depth understanding is necessary for enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of external controls, and continuous deep sedation until death (CDS) is an inte…
The language of sedation in end-of-life care: The ethical reasoning of care providers in three countries
The application of ethically controversial medical procedures may differ from one place to another. Drawing on a keyword and text-mining analysis of 156 interviews with doctors and nurses involved in end-of-life care ('care providers'), differences between countries in care providers' ethical rationales for the use of sedation are reported. In the United Kingdom, an emphasis on titrating doses proportionately against symptoms is more likely, main…
Influence of the metropolitan environment on end-of-life decisions: A population-based study of end-of-life decision-making in the Brussels metropolitan region and non-metropolitan Flanders
A post-mortem survey on end-of-life decisions using a representative sample of death certificates in Flanders, Belgium: Research protocol
The protocol of the 2007 ELD Study in Flanders, Belgium, is appropriate for achieving the objectives of the study; as past studies in Belgium, the Netherlands, and other European countries have shown, strictly anonymous and thorough surveys among physicians using a large, stratified, and representative death certificate sample are most suitable in nationwide studies of incidence and characteristics of end-of-life decisions. There are however also…
Changes in medical end-of-life practices during the legalization process of euthanasia in Belgium
Physicians' attitudes towards end-of-life decisions: A Comparison Between Seven Countries
Forest groups as support to private forest owners in developing close-to-nature management
The Vajjālaggam: A study in Indian virtue theory
The paper is meant to be a contribution to the study of Indian and comparative ethics. It treats the Vajjālaggam, an anthology of Prākrit stanzas (subhāsita literature) dealing with a variety of topics. Focusing on the 'ethical' sections of the VL, it tries to describe and analyse its underlying ethical system. In Part I the different ethical themes of the VL (Valour and Destiny, Virtues and Vices, Masters and Servants, Friendship and Affection, …
Inner‐scientific Reconstructions in the Discourse on Masturbation (1760–1950)
One of the main objectives of this article is to demonstrate that the onanism discourse is a constitutive part of the history of science. The authors argue that culturalist and externalist explanations of the phenomenon of masturbation are incomplete, and, on the basis of the theory of science of Thomas Nickles, they propose an inner‐scientific explanation. The article thus considers almost 200 years of the history of onanism discourse starting f…
Physicians' attitudes towards end-of-life decisions: A Comparison Between Seven Countries
Forest groups as support to private forest owners in developing close-to-nature management
The language of sedation in end-of-life care: The ethical reasoning of care providers in three countries
The application of ethically controversial medical procedures may differ from one place to another. Drawing on a keyword and text-mining analysis of 156 interviews with doctors and nurses involved in end-of-life care ('care providers'), differences between countries in care providers' ethical rationales for the use of sedation are reported. In the United Kingdom, an emphasis on titrating doses proportionately against symptoms is more likely, main…
Changes in medical end-of-life practices during the legalization process of euthanasia in Belgium
Fighters, thinkers and bees: How racialized minority students experience learning about ethnic inequality in education
Educational research acknowledges the significant challenges faced by racialized minority students at school. This interview-based study exam-ines the experiences of racialized minority students in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region in Belgium, regarding a social science curricu-lum that addresses the power dynamics and privilege involved in per-petuating ethnic inequality in Flemish education. The study aims to develop typologies of students’ r…
Influence of the metropolitan environment on end-of-life decisions: A population-based study of end-of-life decision-making in the Brussels metropolitan region and non-metropolitan Flanders
Inner‐scientific Reconstructions in the Discourse on Masturbation (1760–1950)
One of the main objectives of this article is to demonstrate that the onanism discourse is a constitutive part of the history of science. The authors argue that culturalist and externalist explanations of the phenomenon of masturbation are incomplete, and, on the basis of the theory of science of Thomas Nickles, they propose an inner‐scientific explanation. The article thus considers almost 200 years of the history of onanism discourse starting f…
The Vajjālaggam: A study in Indian virtue theory
The paper is meant to be a contribution to the study of Indian and comparative ethics. It treats the Vajjālaggam, an anthology of Prākrit stanzas (subhāsita literature) dealing with a variety of topics. Focusing on the 'ethical' sections of the VL, it tries to describe and analyse its underlying ethical system. In Part I the different ethical themes of the VL (Valour and Destiny, Virtues and Vices, Masters and Servants, Friendship and Affection, …
Forest groups as support to private forest owners in developing close-to-nature management
Physicians' attitudes towards end-of-life decisions: A Comparison Between Seven Countries
Changes in medical end-of-life practices during the legalization process of euthanasia in Belgium
A post-mortem survey on end-of-life decisions using a representative sample of death certificates in Flanders, Belgium: Research protocol
The protocol of the 2007 ELD Study in Flanders, Belgium, is appropriate for achieving the objectives of the study; as past studies in Belgium, the Netherlands, and other European countries have shown, strictly anonymous and thorough surveys among physicians using a large, stratified, and representative death certificate sample are most suitable in nationwide studies of incidence and characteristics of end-of-life decisions. There are however also…
Influence of the metropolitan environment on end-of-life decisions: A population-based study of end-of-life decision-making in the Brussels metropolitan region and non-metropolitan Flanders
The language of sedation in end-of-life care: The ethical reasoning of care providers in three countries
The application of ethically controversial medical procedures may differ from one place to another. Drawing on a keyword and text-mining analysis of 156 interviews with doctors and nurses involved in end-of-life care ('care providers'), differences between countries in care providers' ethical rationales for the use of sedation are reported. In the United Kingdom, an emphasis on titrating doses proportionately against symptoms is more likely, main…
Control Measures for Continuous Deep Sedation Until Death: A Framing Analysis of the Views of Physicians
Physicians have been subject to increasing external control to improve their medical practice, and scholars have theorized extensively about their opposition to such control. However, little empirical attention has been paid to the views and reasoning that lie behind this opposition. An in-depth understanding is necessary for enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of external controls, and continuous deep sedation until death (CDS) is an inte…
Concrete Experiences and Support Needs Regarding the Euthanasia Practice in Adults With Psychiatric Conditions: A Qualitative Interview Study Among Healthcare Professionals and Volunteers in Belgium
The health care professionals and volunteers reported many positive and negative experiences in dealing with euthanasia requests in adult psychiatry. They reported several support needs across the extensive euthanasia trajectory, pertaining to concrete management of thorny issues that guidelines do not (yet) touch on. Important implications of our study relate to tackling these existing issues, and to paying sufficient attention to the impact of …
Physicians’ Experiences and Perceptions of Environmental Factors Affecting Their Practices of Continuous Deep Sedation until Death: A Secondary Qualitative Analysis of an Interview Study
As previous research has paid little attention to environmental factors affecting the practice of continuous deep sedation until death (CDS), we aimed to explore these using physicians' experiences and perceptions. We performed an interpretative thematic analysis of primary data from a qualitative interview study conducted from February to May 2019 in Belgium with 47 physicians. Structural factors were identified: the lack of professional and/or …
Characteristics and outcomes of peer consultations for assisted dying request assessments: Cross-sectional survey study among attending physicians
Background: In most jurisdictions where assisted dying practices are legal, attending physicians must consult another practitioner to assess the patient's eligibility. Consequently, in some jurisdictions, they can rely on the expertise of trained assisted dying consultants (trained consultants). However, these peer consultations remain under-researched. We examined the characteristics and outcomes of peer consultations to assess an assisted dying…
Fighters, thinkers and bees: How racialized minority students experience learning about ethnic inequality in education
Educational research acknowledges the significant challenges faced by racialized minority students at school. This interview-based study exam-ines the experiences of racialized minority students in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region in Belgium, regarding a social science curricu-lum that addresses the power dynamics and privilege involved in per-petuating ethnic inequality in Flemish education. The study aims to develop typologies of students’ r…
Physicians’ preferences for their own end of life: A comparison across North America, Europe, and Australia
OBJECTIVE: To study physicians' personal preferences for end-of-life practices, including life-sustaining and life-shortening practices, and the factors that influence preferences. DESIGN: A cross-sectional survey (May 2022-February 2023). SETTING: Eight jurisdictions: Belgium, Italy, Canada, USA (Oregon, Wisconsin, and Georgia), Australia (Victoria and Queensland). PARTICIPANTS: Three physician types: general practitioners, palliative care physi…
Medicine (10 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Family medicine (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 works) · Palliative care (4 works) · Patient Dignity and Privacy (4 works)