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65Ethical assessment of the culture clash as a universal occurrenceJournal of Art and Design 4 (1): 1-5. 2024.The debate on culture clash necessitates a theoretical framework, and three perspectives that merit attention are homogenization, polarization, and hybridization theories. These intersecting paths lead to the hypothesis that all civilizations could assimilate into the Western model as it is currently conceived. Culture clash is approached from multiple angles due to the widely held belief that rejecting culturally novel concepts is unethical. However, imposing new rules and customs will inevitab…Read more
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8The ill-fated triad: Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill - Post-Yalta strokes and the impact on world leadersJournal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 16. 2023.The Yalta Conference of 1945 brought together three of the most influential leaders of the 20th century: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. Surprisingly, all three leaders would go on to suffer strokes after the conference. This manuscript examines the health status of these leaders during and after the Yalta Conference, the factors that contributed to their strokes (including the role of hypertension), and other modifiable risk factors present in each one of them, and t…Read more
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188Albanian Doctors Through the Movie LensStudies in Art and Architecture (Issn: 2958-1540) 2 (1): 1-9. 2023.The medical profession has been surrounded from mixed feelings of admiration, mysticism, as well as of fear and refusal. Authors and enthusiastic directors have dedicated serials and movies to the physicians’ everyday work, in their ebbs and tides. Albanian cinema produced a score of titles dedicated to the medical profession, with some movies focusing on the physician as the principal role, and some others more peripherally. The physician as a movie character underwent serious changes in the wa…Read more
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9Ethical concerns in the age of an advanced psychopharmacologyJournal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 14. 2021.No.
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313Psychiatry in the Time of Cholera: A Quarter-Century of Albanian Thematic Writings (1959–1984)World Social Psychiatry 2 (3): 225-229. 2020.In the second half of the last century, Albanian society adopted a totalitarian way of communist thinking, that could not have spared medical disciplines. Psychiatry was and probably remains a stigmatized field, whose problems almost never were discussed openly. Specialized writings on psychiatry were available and could shed light on the themes and questions of concern. A periodical journal entitled Psychoneurological Works circulated in its print edition, with its first issue of 1959, its tent…Read more
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6The unlikely legalization of medical cannabis in Albania: a case studyJournal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 12. 2019.Cannabis abuse has been an issue of major concern for the Albanian society in recent years, following the wide illegal planting of the species. Legal lacunas, weaknesses from the drug-controlling agencies, and the easiness of harvesting Cannabis sativa plants have contributed to the creation of a general negative opinion toward a potential use of its active principles for medical purposes.
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3Mission impossible: upholding successfully a charge of infanticide in the Albanian legal practiceJournal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 7 (1). 2015.Infanticide is a horrendous crime universally condemned from all ethical, juridical and moral standpoints. However, legislation on infanticide foresees mitigating circumstances for infanticidal mothers, with sentences by far disproportionate to the severity of the crime. The main justification for this abstaining from severe punishments has been the so-called post puerperal psychosis, whose diagnostic criteria and existence are still very confusing. Psychiatric experts and even jurors show exces…Read more
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204Child abuse remains mundane even under symbolic disguise: highlights from an Albanian post WWII movieAsian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies 3 (4): 28-37. 2020.Artistic work during communist regime in Albania has been a strictly controlled area, due to censorship and ideological limitations. However, the creative genius of some individuals was able to transmit religious images in a disguised form, particularly when themes were permissive to ambiguous messages. Depicting child abuse was a taboo for the everyday life, but not when focusing on certain historical periods that were purposefully stigmatized from the state propaganda. Some snapshots and image…Read more
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2A simple apparatus for measuring the blood urea, manufactured by Dr. Luigj Benusi in 1943 in AlbaniaJournal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 2 1-4. 2009.The apparatus invented by Dr. Luigj Benusi in 1943, in Tirana, was a practical application of the Kowarsky technique and Ambard laws, helping in determining blood urea levels and very important to a variety of diseases, mainly kidney disorders.The apparatus was invented and prepared from very simple laboratory materials, such as glasses, test tubes, corks and volumetric cylinders. Technologically, it was based upon the determination of blood urea through hypobromite, and, among the advantages of…Read more
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254A Historical Approach to Alcohol AbuseInternational Journal of Clinical Toxicology 1 52-55. 2013.Alcohol consuming is so present in human history to the extent that it has become ‘a universal language’. Under this point of view, studying historical trends regarding alcohol consume, geographical profile of its abuse, political approaches at the level of public health in different countries and epochs, might be of interest toward understanding the actual situation. Alcohol beverages have been considered positively due to the unproven belief that they have curative and medicinal characteristic…Read more
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328The Medical Toxicologist in an Albanian Court: Ethical and Legal IssuesInternational Journal of Clinical Toxicology 1 27-30. 2013.Recent developments in the field of forensic medicine and the judicial practice are both factors influencing considerably toward an increasing role of toxicologists in court hearings and litigation processes. The role of forensic toxicologist has been until a few decennia before a prerogative of the medico-legal specialists, but meanwhile a subspecialty of the general toxicology seems to have been created. Vis-à-vis the increasing presence of toxicologists in penal procedures of poisoning and in…Read more
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1684Pain and Infernal Pain in the Verses of Dante AlighieriAJMHS 48 (1/2): 1-7. 2017.The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, and its initial part of Inferno, includes several medical terms and descriptions, whose accuracy sometimes overcomes that of a layman. The genial poet has used locutions illustrating pain and sorrow more than forty times in Inferno alone, with words like dolor, dolente and doloroso, that have caused perplexity among translators. The panoply of translations – here we are dealing only with the English versions – will prove that not only the contextual meaning …Read more
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50Inapplicability of advance directives in a paternalistic setting: the case of a post-communist health system (review)BMC Medical Ethics 12 (1): 12-. 2011.Background: The Albanian medical system and Albanian health legislation have adopted a paternalistic position with regard to individual decision making. This reflects the practices of a not-so-remote past when state-run facilities and a totalitarian philosophy of medical care were politically imposed. Because of this history, advance directives concerning treatment refusal and do-not-resuscitate decisions are still extremely uncommon in Albania. Medical teams cannot abstain from intervening even…Read more
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401Near-death Experiences: Narratives in an Extraordinary SettingOpen Journal of Art and Communication 1 (3): 39-43. 2014.Near-death experiences have been described with a variety of forms and narratives. Different medical conditions leading to loss of consciousness or causing a restriction in the perceptive field have been related with the appearance of near-death experiences. A few literary narratives of these experiences are available, with fictional characters exposed to helplessness and despair during the impending death. A situation of near-death experience is described in the last part of the seventh chapter…Read more
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28The actuality and the historical background of covert Euthanasia in AlbaniaJournal of Medical Ethics 36 (12): 842-844. 2010.Euthanasia is not legal in Albania, yet there is strong evidence that euthanising a terminally ill patient is not an unknown concept for the Albanians. The first mentioned case of euthanasia is found in 7th century AD mythology and during the communist regime (1944–1989), allegations of euthanising political prisoners and possible rivals in the struggle for power have widely been formulated. There is a trend among relatives and laymen taking care of terminally ill patients to apply tranquilisers…Read more
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