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Elsevier Developmental Programming in Livestock Production An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America Food Animal Practice 1st Edition by Mulliniks, Travis
This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Food Animal Practice, edited by Dr. Rick Funston and Dr. J. Travis Mulliniks, is dedicated to Developmental Programming in Livestock Production. Topics include: Fetal Growth and Development; Cellular Mechanisms and Epigenetic Changes; Overgrowth Syndrome; Effects on Progeny and Nutrient Partitioning; Effects on Neonatal Mortality; Effects on Tissue Growth and End Product; Effects on Fertility; Effects on Animal Health and Immune Function; Effects on Dam and Progeny Milk Production; Multigenerational Effects; Developmental Resiliency: in utero Adaptation to Environmental Stimuli; and Developmental Programming in a Beef Production System. 1.Professional standards and the requirement to be ethical2.Ethics, bioethics and nursing ethics: some working defintions3.Moral theory and the ethical practice of nursing4. Cross cultural ethics and the ethical practice of nursing5.Moral problems and moral decision-making in nursing and health care contexts6.Ethics, dehumanisation and vulnerable populations7.Patients' rights to and in health care8.Ethical issues in mental health care9.Ethical issues in end-of-life care 10.The moral politics of abortion and euthanasia11.Professional judgment, moral quandaries and taking 'appropriate action'12.Professional obligations to report harmful behaviours: risks to patient safety, child abuse and elder abuse13.Nursing ethics futures - challenges in the 21st century