In a study that assesses the capacity of anorexic patients to consent to and refuse treatment, psychiatrist Jacinta Tan and her colleagues have compiled evidence which suggests that one of the most popular empirical tests of capacity may embody a faulty theoretical conception of decisional capacity (Tan et al., 2003a, 2003b, 2007, 2009).
Having presented a rational and non-trivial reading of evidence-based ethics as a theoretical conception, this paper is now particularly concerned to identify the limits of evidence-based ethics in practice and the risks that go along with it.
However, it was ever just a theoretical conception until Strukov et al. found the missing memristor device in studying TiO2 cross array in 2008 [2], which triggers the interest of researchers around the world.
The discovery of REM sleep also profoundly altered the theoretical conception of sleep.
First-aid training based on experience principles has many benefits when compared to the traditional frontal and mainly theoretical conception of training.
Our general framework (shown in Figure 2) for analyzing our theoretical conception of vocational identity is based on House's ([1977]) personality and social structure perspective (PSSP) and its proposed levels of personality, interaction, and social structure.
Our findings are not only relevant to the theoretical conception of vote choice and contribute to psychological accounts of political behaviour, but they also have practical implications for the design of electoral institutions.
This theoretical conception of recovery is something new and innovative in the field of mental health in that it offers a vision that differs from the one traditionally associated with the restoration of functional capabilities.
These differences were not surprising since the questionnaire was based on the neuropsychological theoretical conception of cognition whereas factor analysis of the scale reflected the patient's own perception of his cognition.
These differences were not surprising because the questionnaire was based on the neuropsychological theoretical conception of cognitive insight, whereas factor analysis of the scale reflects the subjects' own perceptions of their cognitive insight.
