Book Description
Informed consent - as an ethical ideal and legal doctrine - has been the source of much concern to clinicians. Drawing on a diverse set of backgrounds and two decades of research in clinical settings, the authors - a lawyer, a physician, a social scientist, and a philosopher - help clinicians understand and cope with their legal obligations and show how the proper handling of informed consent can improve , rather than impede, patient care. Following a concise review of the ethical and legal foundations of informed consent, they provide detailed, practical suggestions for incorporating informed consent into clinical practice. This completely revised and updated edition discusses how to handle informed consent in all phases of the doctor-patient relationship, use of consent forms, patients' refusals of treatment, and consent to research. It comments on recent laws and national policy, and addresses cutting edge issues, such as fulfilling physician obligations under managed care. This clear and succinct book contains a wealth of information that will not only help clinicians meet the legal requirements of informed consent and understand its ethical underpinnings, but also enhance their ability to deal with their patients more effectively. It will be of value to all those working in areas where issues of informed consent are likely to arise, including medicine, biomedical research, mental health care, nursing, dentistry, biomedical ethics, and law. ... Read more

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Contents
Introduction, Abbreviations, I. FORM AND MEANING IN INDO-EUROPEAN: Helmut Rix: Towards a Reconstruction of Proto-Italic: the Verbal System, Joseph F. Eska: The Distribution of the Old Irish Personal Object Affixes and Forward Reconstruction, Annamaria Bartolotta: Towards a Reconstruction of Indo-European Culture: Semantic Functions of IE *men- , Nicoletta Puddu: Reflecting on *se-/s(e)we-: From Typology to Indo-European and Back, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen: The Marker of the Animate Dual in Indo-European, Brian D. Joseph: Evidentiality in Proto-Indo-European? Building a Case, Karl Praust: A Missing Link of PIE Reconstruction: The Injunctive of *HIes- 'to be', II. STYLE, SENSE, AND SOUND: Craig Melchert: PIE "thorn" in Cuneiform Luvian?, Martin E. Huld: An Indo-European Term for 'harvested grain', Giovanna Rocca: Ideology and Lexis: Umbrian uhtur, Latin auctor, Angelo O. Mercado: A New Approach to Old Latin and Umbrian Poetic Meter, III. UNMASKING PREHISTORY: Jon Christian Billigmeier: Crete, the Dorians, and the Sea Peoples, Gregory E. Areshian: The Zoomorphic Code of the Proto-Indo-European Myth Cycle of "Birth-Death-Resurrection": A Linguistic-Archaeological Reconstruction, Karlene Jones-Bley: Basal Motifs and Indo-European Ritual, IV. MOLDING AND MODELLING THE PAST: Paul-Louis van Berg: Arts, Languages, and Reality in the Mesopotamian and Indo-European Worlds, Marc Vander Linden: The Band vs. the Cord, or Can Indo-European Reconstructed Institutions Be Tested against Archaeological Data?, Index ... Read more

Book Description
Windows 2000 Professional Unleashed is an invaluable reference for networking professionals and power users who need answers fast. This book teaches you how to optimize the Windows 2000 system for the most efficient performance based on your specific work habits. Within the pages of this book you will find everything you need to solve your problems in a clear and direct way. Topics include troubleshooting the setup, tuning Windows 2000 performance, using Windows 2000 on laptops, configuring multimedia devices, Windows 2000 network services, Internet Information Service, and more. ... Read more

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This is e-mail I have sent to the editor of this book:

This is a book for the people who like puzzles. I have just started to read it and even in the beginning I've found a lot of controversy. On page 10 in paragraph 5 (considering Note as a paragraph) you read: "With Windows NT 4, Microsoft moved the GDI, or Graphics Device Interface (the display part of NT), to the Kernel. Previous versions of Windows 2000 had these services in User mode".

But on page 40 the first paragraph under the "Why the lost legacy?" section you can read:"Keep in mind that Windows 2000 follows Windows NT in having the Graphics Device interface (GDI) in User instead of Kernel as in previous Windows NT versions".

So, where GDI is actually located??? I was not awared that we have had previous versions of Windows 2000. What are they? Or did the author mean Win95, Win98, WinNT as previous versions? In that case they are not version ofWindows 2000, just versions of Windows. Or may be I have missed information about previous versions of Windows 2000?

I have to find now a different source of Windows 2000 information, because after the problems I've encountered in this book it is a waste of my time to read it at all.

Good book
This book covers everything I needed to know to work with Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional. It covers the issues how to install IIS 5, setting up Websites, and management issues. There are loads of step throughexercises, and plenty of screen captures to walk you through the tasks youneed to know to manage a Web. A very complete book. ... Read more

Book Description
This digital document is an article from Journal of Global Information Management, published by Idea Group Publishing on January 1, 2000. The length of the article is 8252 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Transnational Information Systems: Development and Management Issues.
Author: Paul Mantelaers
Publication: Journal of Global Information Management (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
Volume: 8Issue: 1Page: 34

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