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  1. Book ; Online ; E-Book: A Test of Morals

    Furr, LeRoy Allen

    Surgical, Ethical, and Psychosocial Considerations in Human Head Transplantation

    2024  

    Abstract: A Test of Morals compiles and examines the ethical questions that dog those who advocate for conducting this most radical of medical proposals in order to determine if society should move forward and allow head transplantation to occur. ...

    Author's details L. Allen Furr
    Abstract A Test of Morals compiles and examines the ethical questions that dog those who advocate for conducting this most radical of medical proposals in order to determine if society should move forward and allow head transplantation to occur.
    Keywords Brain/Surgery
    Subject code 617.481
    Language English
    Size 1 online resource (157 pages)
    Edition First edition.
    Publisher CRC Press
    Publishing place Abingdon, England
    Document type Book ; Online ; E-Book
    Note Includes index.
    Remark Zugriff für angemeldete ZB MED-Nutzerinnen und -Nutzer
    ISBN 1-04-001765-7 ; 1-003-36701-1 ; 9781032433660 ; 978-1-04-001765-4 ; 978-1-003-36701-7 ; 1032433663
    Database ZB MED Catalogue: Medicine, Health, Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture

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  2. Article ; Online: Facial disfigurement stigma: a study of victims of domestic assaults with fire in India.

    Furr, L Allen

    Violence against women

    2014  Volume 20, Issue 7, Page(s) 783–798

    Abstract: In India, the incidence of fire attacks on women has risen dramatically. Although studies and media accounts describe how and why these attacks occur, no research has investigated the lives of survivors. Qualitative analysis of the texts of two focus ... ...

    Abstract In India, the incidence of fire attacks on women has risen dramatically. Although studies and media accounts describe how and why these attacks occur, no research has investigated the lives of survivors. Qualitative analysis of the texts of two focus groups of women scarred by domestic attacks by fire reveals that these women are heavily stigmatized. Using Yang et al.'s theory that stigma is a response to perceived threats to values of everyday life and feminist theory as guides, the study identified two patterns of moral threat related to disfigurement: (a) Disfigurement challenges values and practices of women's family roles, and (b) disfigurement threatens normative religious sensibilities.
    MeSH term(s) Burns/complications ; Burns/psychology ; Domestic Violence/psychology ; Evaluation Studies as Topic ; Facial Injuries/psychology ; Female ; Focus Groups ; Humans ; India ; Social Stigma ; Socioeconomic Factors ; Spouse Abuse/psychology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-07
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2031375-5
    ISSN 1552-8448 ; 1077-8012
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    ISSN 1077-8012
    DOI 10.1177/1077801214543384
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  3. Article: On the relationship between cultural values and preferences and affective health in Nepal.

    Furr, L Allen

    The International journal of social psychiatry

    2005  Volume 51, Issue 1, Page(s) 71–82

    Abstract: Background: The westernization of developing countries has improved physical health and life expectancy. Modernization, however, is believed to have injurious effects on mental health. Some research suggests that the effects of modernization vary, ... ...

    Abstract Background: The westernization of developing countries has improved physical health and life expectancy. Modernization, however, is believed to have injurious effects on mental health. Some research suggests that the effects of modernization vary, hurting some but benefiting others. Economic disparity is usually presumed to cause the mental health problems. The purpose of this study was to determine if aspects of westernization other than economic status predicted depression scores in a sample of adults occupying similar economic stations in Nepal.
    Methods: Survey data were collected from 276 teachers in Nepal. The questionnaire was administered in Nepali. Statistical tests sought to determine the relationship between scores on a measure of depression and having a western cultural orientation.
    Results: Bivariate and multi-variate analyses indicate that a higher western orientation was associated with lower depression scores. Non-traditional attitudes towards the Nepalese caste system and gender political equality predicted lower depression scores. Attitudes regarding gender economic equality and a preference for western music and film and English language were not associated with depression scores.
    Conclusion: Findings suggest that the relationship between modernization and psychological well-being are contextual.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Anxiety Disorders/epidemiology ; Anxiety Disorders/etiology ; Anxiety Disorders/psychology ; Choice Behavior ; Cultural Characteristics ; Culture ; Depressive Disorder/epidemiology ; Depressive Disorder/etiology ; Depressive Disorder/psychology ; Developing Countries ; Female ; Health Surveys ; Hierarchy, Social ; Humans ; Male ; Nepal ; Risk Factors ; Social Change ; Social Class ; Social Values ; Socioeconomic Factors ; Statistics as Topic ; Teaching
    Language English
    Publishing date 2005-03
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 3062-4
    ISSN 1741-2854 ; 0020-7640
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    ISSN 0020-7640
    DOI 10.1177/0020764005053283
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  4. Article ; Online: Surgical, ethical, and psychosocial considerations in human head transplantation.

    Furr, Allen / Hardy, Mark A / Barret, Juan P / Barker, John H

    International journal of surgery (London, England)

    2017  Volume 41, Page(s) 190–195

    Abstract: Transplanting a head and brain is perhaps the final frontier of organ transplantation. The goal of body-to-head transplantation (BHT) is to sustain the life of individuals who suffer from terminal disease, but whose head and brain are healthy. Ideally ... ...

    Abstract Transplanting a head and brain is perhaps the final frontier of organ transplantation. The goal of body-to-head transplantation (BHT) is to sustain the life of individuals who suffer from terminal disease, but whose head and brain are healthy. Ideally BHT could provide a lifesaving treatment for several conditions where none currently exists. BHT is no ordinary experiment, to transfer a head to another body involves extraordinarily complex medical challenges as well as ethical and existential dilemmas that were previously confined to the imagination of writers of fiction. The possibility of replacing an incurably ill body with a healthy one tests not only our surgical limits, but also the social and psychological boundaries of physical life and alters what we recognize life to be. The purpose of this target article, the complementary manuscript focused on immunological issues in BHT, and the accompanying Commentaries by scholars and practitioners in medicine, immunology, and bioethics is to review major surgical and psychosocial-ethical and immunological considerations surrounding body-to-head transplantation. We hope that together these ideas will provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the possibilities and challenges associated with BHT and initiate professional discussion and debate through which this new frontier in medicine is considered and approached.
    MeSH term(s) Brain Tissue Transplantation/ethics ; Brain Tissue Transplantation/psychology ; Head/surgery ; Human Body ; Humans ; Organ Transplantation/ethics ; Organ Transplantation/psychology ; Transplantation, Homologous/ethics ; Transplantation, Homologous/psychology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-01-19
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2212038-5
    ISSN 1743-9159 ; 1743-9191
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  5. Article ; Online: The immunologic considerations in human head transplantation.

    Hardy, Mark A / Furr, Allen / Barret, Juan P / Barker, John H

    International journal of surgery (London, England)

    2017  Volume 41, Page(s) 196–202

    Abstract: The idea of head transplantation appears at first as unrealistic, unethical, and futile. Here we discuss immunological considerations in human head transplantation. In a separate accompanying article we discuss surgical, ethical, and psychosocial issues ... ...

    Abstract The idea of head transplantation appears at first as unrealistic, unethical, and futile. Here we discuss immunological considerations in human head transplantation. In a separate accompanying article we discuss surgical, ethical, and psychosocial issues concerned in body-to-head transplantation (BHT) [1]. The success of such an unusual allograft, where the donor and the recipient can reject each other, depends on prevention of complex immunologic reactions, especially rejection of the head by the body (graft-vs-host) or probably less likely, the possibility of the head rejecting the total body allograft (host-vs-graft). The technical and immunologic difficulties are enormous, especially since rapid nerve and cord connections and regeneration have not yet been possible to achieve. In this article we begin by briefly reviewing neuro-immunologic issues that may favor BHT such as the blood brain barrier (BBB) and point out its shortcomings. And we touch on the cellular and humoral elements in the brain proper that differ in some respects from those in other organs and in the periphery. Based on recent successes in vascular composite allografts (VCAs), we will elaborate on potential specific advantages and difficulties in BHT of various available immunosuppressive medications already utilized in VCAs. The risk/benefit ratio of these drugs will be emphasized in relation to direct brain toxicity such as seizure disorders, interference, or promotion of nerve regeneration, and potentiation of cerebral viral infections. The final portion of this article will focus on pre-transplant immunologic manipulation of the deceased donor body along with pretreatment of the recipient.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-05
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2212038-5
    ISSN 1743-9159 ; 1743-9191
    ISSN (online) 1743-9159
    ISSN 1743-9191
    DOI 10.1016/j.ijsu.2017.01.084
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  6. Article: Factors that affect women's attitudes toward domestic violence in Turkey.

    Marshall, Gul Aldikacti / Furr, L Allen

    Violence and victims

    2010  Volume 25, Issue 2, Page(s) 265–277

    Abstract: This article examines the attitudes of Turkish women toward justification of intimate partner violence. The data were gathered from the 2003 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey. A random sample of 8,075, aged 15-49, participated in the survey. The ... ...

    Abstract This article examines the attitudes of Turkish women toward justification of intimate partner violence. The data were gathered from the 2003 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey. A random sample of 8,075, aged 15-49, participated in the survey. The findings underline the importance of patriarchal beliefs and the associated practice of brides-money in addition to rural residence, large household, illiteracy, lack of wealth, and younger age at marriage as the sources of acceptance of violence among women. The study provides a theoretical explanation for how patriarchal ideology is translated into an accepting attitude toward violence and also discusses the factors that serve as mechanisms that help women resist patriarchal hegemony and not justify domestic violence against women. The final section of the article addresses policy implications.
    MeSH term(s) Adolescent ; Battered Women/psychology ; Battered Women/statistics & numerical data ; Cultural Characteristics ; Female ; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ; Humans ; Interpersonal Relations ; Multivariate Analysis ; Population Surveillance ; Social Perception ; Social Values ; Socioeconomic Factors ; Spouse Abuse/psychology ; Spouse Abuse/statistics & numerical data ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Turkey/epidemiology ; Women's Health ; Young Adult
    Language English
    Publishing date 2010-01-18
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 639280-5
    ISSN 1945-7073 ; 0886-6708
    ISSN (online) 1945-7073
    ISSN 0886-6708
    DOI 10.1891/0886-6708.25.2.265
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  7. Article: Perceptions of genetics research as harmful to society: differences among samples of African-Americans and European-Americans.

    Furr, L Allen

    Genetic testing

    2002  Volume 6, Issue 1, Page(s) 25–30

    Abstract: Genetics has the potential not only to find cures for diseases, but to possess the mechanisms to change the bio-social make-up of populations. A specific question that has arisen on this issue is how developments in genetic technology may intersect with ... ...

    Abstract Genetics has the potential not only to find cures for diseases, but to possess the mechanisms to change the bio-social make-up of populations. A specific question that has arisen on this issue is how developments in genetic technology may intersect with existing race and ethnic relations. Evidence of the racialization of some genetic disorders has been demonstrated elsewhere. The purpose of this study is to compare and contrast African-American and European-American attitudes on the benefits of genetics research for society. Findings show that African-Americans were more likely to say genetics research is harmful for society. This relationship remained statistically significant after controls were introduced in a regression model. Demographic characteristics and self-rated knowledge of genetics had no effect on attitudes among African-Americans. A willingness to use genetic services correlated with favorable attitudes. Differences in social position may lead some groups to opposing interpretations and symbolic meanings of genetics. This may be true in the context of this study because the social meanings of genetics may be tainted by racialization, historical attempts at eugenics, and the potential abuse of genetics targeting groups partially defined by superficial genetic characteristics.
    MeSH term(s) African Americans ; Attitude ; Data Collection ; Demography ; European Continental Ancestry Group ; Female ; Genetic Research ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Multivariate Analysis ; Public Opinion
    Language English
    Publishing date 2002
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1345729-9
    ISSN 1557-7473 ; 1090-6576
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    ISSN 1090-6576
    DOI 10.1089/109065702760093889
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  8. Article ; Online: Outsourcing bench research to reduce attrition of junior surgery faculty.

    Maldonado, Claudio / Furr, Allen

    Microsurgery

    2008  Volume 28, Issue 5, Page(s) 387–389

    MeSH term(s) Faculty, Medical/organization & administration ; Faculty, Medical/supply & distribution ; General Surgery/organization & administration ; Humans ; Outsourced Services ; Personnel Turnover ; Physician's Role ; Research/economics ; Research/organization & administration
    Language English
    Publishing date 2008
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Letter
    ZDB-ID 605524-2
    ISSN 1098-2752 ; 0738-1085
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    ISSN 0738-1085
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  9. Article ; Online: Factors associated with non-reimbursable activity on an inpatient pediatric consultation-liaison service.

    Bierenbaum, Melanie L / Katsikas, Steven / Furr, Allen / Carter, Bryan D

    Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings

    2013  Volume 20, Issue 4, Page(s) 464–472

    Abstract: The aim of this study was to identify factors contributing to clinician time spent in non-reimbursable activity on an inpatient pediatric consultation-liaison (C-L) service. A retrospective study was conducted using inpatient C-L service data on 1,246 ... ...

    Abstract The aim of this study was to identify factors contributing to clinician time spent in non-reimbursable activity on an inpatient pediatric consultation-liaison (C-L) service. A retrospective study was conducted using inpatient C-L service data on 1,246 consecutive referrals. For this patient population, the strongest predictor of level of non-reimbursable clinical activity was illness chronicity and the number of contacts with C-L service clinicians during their hospital stay. Patients with acute life-threatening illnesses required the highest mean amount of non-reimbursable service activity. On average, 28 % of total clinician time in completing a hospital consultation was spent in non-reimbursable activity. Effective C-L services require a proportion of time spent in non-reimbursable clinical activity, such as liaison and coordinating care with other providers. Identifying referral and systemic factors contributing to non-reimbursable activity can provide insight into budgeting/negotiating for institutional support for essential clinical and non-clinical functions in providing competent quality patient care.
    MeSH term(s) Child ; Female ; Humans ; Inpatients ; Insurance, Health, Reimbursement/economics ; Insurance, Health, Reimbursement/statistics & numerical data ; Male ; Pediatrics/economics ; Pediatrics/methods ; Psychiatric Department, Hospital/economics ; Psychiatric Department, Hospital/statistics & numerical data ; Referral and Consultation/economics ; Referral and Consultation/statistics & numerical data ; Retrospective Studies ; Severity of Illness Index
    Language English
    Publishing date 2013-07-03
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1235893-9
    ISSN 1573-3572 ; 1068-9583
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  10. Article ; Online: Baseline values from the electrocardiograms of children and adolescents with ADHD.

    Prasad, Suyash / Furr, Amanda J / Zhang, Shuyu / Ball, Susan / Allen, Albert J

    Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health

    2007  Volume 1, Issue 1, Page(s) 11

    Abstract: Background: An important issue in pediatric pharmacology is the determination of whether medications affect cardiac rhythm parameters, in particular the QT interval, which is a surrogate marker for the risk of adverse cardiac events and sudden death. To ...

    Abstract Background: An important issue in pediatric pharmacology is the determination of whether medications affect cardiac rhythm parameters, in particular the QT interval, which is a surrogate marker for the risk of adverse cardiac events and sudden death. To evaluate changes while on medication, it is useful to have a comparison of age appropriate values while off medication. The present meta-analysis provides baseline ECG values (i.e., off medication) from approximately 6000 children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
    Methods: Subjects were aged 6-18 years and participated in global trials within the atomoxetine registration program. Patients were administered a 12-lead ECG at study screening and cardiac rhythm parameters were recorded. Baseline QT intervals were corrected for heart rate using 3 different methods: Bazett's, Fridericia's, and a population data-derived formula.
    Results: ECG data were obtained from 5289 North American and 641 non-North American children and adolescents. Means and percentiles are presented for each ECG measure and QTc interval based on pubertal status as defined by age and sex. Prior treatment history with stimulants and racial origin (Caucasian) were each associated with significantly longer mean QTc values.
    Conclusion: Baseline ECG and QTc data from almost 6000 children and adolescents presenting with ADHD are provided to contribute to the knowledge base regarding mean values for pediatric cardiac parameters. Consistent with other studies of QT interval in children and adolescents, Bazett correction formula appears to overestimate the prevalence of prolonged QTc in the pediatric population.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2007-09-28
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2379599-2
    ISSN 1753-2000 ; 1753-2000
    ISSN (online) 1753-2000
    ISSN 1753-2000
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