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    P. Anne Scott, editor.
    Summary: Short case studies, based on real stories from the health care arena, ensure that each chapter of this book is rooted in descriptions of nursing practise that are grounded, salient narratives of nursing care. The reader is assisted to explore the ethical dimension of nursing practice: what it is and how it can be portrayed, discussed, and analysed within a variety of practice and theoretical contexts. One of the unique contributions of this book is to consider nursing not only in the context of the individual nurse-patient relationship but also as a social good that is of necessity limited, due to the ultimate limits on the nursing and health care resource. This book will help the reader consider what good nursing looks like, both within the context of limitations on resources and under conditions of scarcity. Indeed, any discussion of ethical issues in nursing should be well grounded in a conceptualisation of nursing that nursing students and practising nursing can recognise, accept and engage with. Nursing, like medicine, social work and teaching has a clear moral aim--to do good. In the case of nursing to do good for the patient. However it is vital that in the pressurised, constrained health service of the 21st century, we help nurses explore what this might mean for nursing practice and what can reasonably be expected of the individual nurse in terms of good nursing care.

    Contents:
    1. Nursing and the Ethical Dimension of Practice
    2. A Duty-Based Approach for Nursing Ethics & Practice
    3. Utilitarianism as an Approach to Ethical Decision Making in Health Care
    4. Virtue Ethics and Nursing Practice
    5. Care Ethics and Nursing Practice
    6. The Concept of Person
    7. Patient Autonomy in Nursing and Healthcare Contexts
    8. The Nurse as Patient Advocate?
    9. Ethical Issues at the Beginning of Life
    10. Ethical Issues at the End of Life
    11. Ethical Issues in Mental Health Nursing
    12. Resource Allocation and Rationing in Nursing Care
    13. Values-based Nursing and Fitness to Practice Issues
    14. Ethical Principles in Healthcare Research
    15. Clinical and Organisational Ethics: Implications for Healthcare Practice.
    Digital Access Springer 2017
  • Article
    Stamato TD, Waldren CA.
    Somatic Cell Genet. 1977 Jul;3(4):431-40.
    Techinques are described which permit the identification and isolation of UV-sensitive variants from mutagenized populations of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Identification is based on the observation that within two days after receiving a dose of approximately 240 ergs/mm2 of UV irradiation most of the cells in a colony of CHO detach from the surface of a plastic tissue culture dish. At a lower dose of UV, which does not kill or detach a significant number of parental cells, UV-sensitive colonies are killed and become detached. Thus a clear plaque is produced in a lawn of unirradiated parental cells, marking the site occupied by a sensitive colony. Live cells from such sensitive colonies have been recovered from a nylon cloth replica prepared prior to irradiation and characterized. One UV-sensitive variant (CHO-UV-1) is indistinguishable from parental cells in X-ray resistance, chromosome number, generation time, and duration of the phases of the cell cycle. For UV irradiation the hit number (-n), shoulder width (Dq), and mean lethal dose (Do) for the variant are 2.8, 21 ergs/mm2, and 21 ergs/mm2, respectively, as compared to 2.6, 36 ergs/mm2, and 45 ergs/mm2 for CHO-K1 cells. These values have not changed for a period of eight months in culture.
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