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Record W2200831823 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511545566.062

Jewish bioethics

2008· book-chapter· de· W2200831823 on OpenAlexaff
Gary Goldsand, R. S. Zahava Rosenberg-Yunger, Michael Gordon

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2008
Typebook-chapter
Languagede
FieldMedicine
TopicEthics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoRoyal Alexandra Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBioethicsJudaismSociologyPolitical sciencePhilosophyTheologyLaw

Abstract

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Mrs. G is an 85-year-old resident of a Jewish long-term care facility who has vascular dementia, controlled heart failure, and diabetes mellitus. She is bed bound and occasionally recognizes her daughter with a slight smile. The gastrostomy feeding tube she received two years ago has begun leaking and needs to be replaced. Her daughter, who has become her surrogate since the recent death of Mrs. G's husband, has indicated that if the tube were to come out, she would not consent to the insertion of a new tube: a decision she feels would be in accord with her mother's wishes. She would not, however, request that the tube be deliberately removed. The staff are concerned that, by not replacing the tube, they would be failing to maintain the current level of treatment, and she would starve. They feel that this would amount to taking the mother's life, without any substantial decline in her clinical condition. The daughter acknowledges the concern and devotion of the staff and her mother's unchanged clinical status, but reiterates her belief that her mother would prefer to be allowed to die rather than be force fed through a gastrostomy tube. What is Jewish bioethics? Judaism Judaism is the religion of the Jewish People. Judaism is a 3500-year-old tradition based on foundational stories in the Pentateuch – the five books that make up the Torah.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.052

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0040.003
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.005

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 head0.084
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.211 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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