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Record W2132610731

Euthanasia: Some Critical Remarks

2009· article· en· W2132610731 on OpenAlexaff
Adejumobi Olatidoye Ayodele

Bibliographic record

VenueOpenstarTs (Univeristy of Trieste https://www.units.it/) · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicEthics in medical practice
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCompassionLegalizationPain and sufferingPrinciple of double effectPsychological painPsychotherapistPain reliefAlternative medicineMedicinePsychiatryPsychologyLawPolitical scienceSurgery
DOInot available

Abstract

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Euthanasia is generally regarded as killing in order to put an end to the unrelieved pain \nand suffering of a patient. Most terminal diseases are often associated with unrelieved pain \nand suffering, as a result advocates of euthanasia have argued for the legalization of \neuthanasia on the ground of compassion for the patients’ suffering. However advancement \nin medicine has made it possible for modern medicine to reduce pain and suffering to the \nbarest minimum. The questions that arise from this are, given the advancement in \nmedicine; is there any necessity for euthanasia? Is the relief of pain the same as the relief of \nsuffering? Do the physiological treatment of pain and its symptoms treat the psychological \nand emotional effect of pain and suffering? This paper shall attempt to answer these \nquestions and argue that though issues and fears raised by the anti-euthanasia movements \nare very legitimate, the problems are resolvable by a well regulated medical system. I will \nattempt to explain what a well regulated system entails and how it can take care of the \nconcerns of the anti euthanasia movement.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.042
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.072
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.042
Threshold uncertainty score0.224

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0420.072
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0090.047
Scholarly communication0.0110.025
Open science0.0070.007
Research integrity0.0360.064
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.139
GPT teacher head0.452
Teacher spread0.314 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2009
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