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Rethinking health care ethics
The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant approaches that focus, for example, on the application of ethical principles. The book elaborates the view that health professionals have the emotional and intellectual resources to discuss and address ethical issues …
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- 9789811308307
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- xv, 169p. : ill.
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- 171.7 SCH r
Model-based demography : essays on integrating data, technique and theory
Late in a career of more than sixty years, Thomas Burch, an internationally known social demographer, undertook a wide-ranging methodological critique of demography. This open access volume contains a selection of resulting papers, some previously unpublished, some published but not readily accessible [from past meetings of The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and its…
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- 9783319654331
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- xviii, 200p. : ill.
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- 304.6 BUR m
Reconsidering constitutional formation II decisive constitutional normativity…
This second volume of ReConFort, published open access, addresses the decisive role of constitutional normativity, and focuses on discourses concerning the legal role of constitutional norms. Taken together with ReConFort I (National Sovereignty), it calls for an innovative reassessment of constitutional history drawing on key categories to convey the legal nature of the constitution itself (na…
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- 9783319730370
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- xii, 419p. : ill.
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- 340.1 REC r
Montaigne and the origins of modern philosophy
Montaigne’s Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle’s Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy argues that the essay is actually the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." Unpremeditated philosophy is philosophy made sociable—brought down from the heavens to t…
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- 9780810129658
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- xxi, 216 pages ; 23 cm
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- 844.3 HAR m
Care in healthcare : reflections on theory and practice
This book examines the concept of care and care practices in healthcare from the interdisciplinary perspectives of continental philosophy, care ethics, the social sciences, and anthropology. Areas addressed include dementia care, midwifery, diabetes care, psychiatry, and reproductive medicine. Special attention is paid to ambivalences and tensions within both the concept of care and care practi…
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- 9783319612911
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- xi, 298p. : ill.
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- 610.1 CAR c
Pragmatic philanthropy : Asian charity explained
This cutting edge text considers how Asian philanthropists and charitable organizations break with Western philanthropic traditions and examines the key traits and trends that make social investment in Asia unique. Based on 30 case studies of excellent social delivery organizations (SDOs) and social enterprises as well as interviews with ultra-high net-worth individuals throughout Asia, this bo…
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- 9789811071195
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- xvi, 173p. : ill.
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- 361.3 SHA p
The ethics of medical data donation
This open access book presents an ethical approach to utilizing personal medical data. It features essays that combine academic argument with practical application of ethical principles. The contributors are experts in ethics and law. They address the challenges in the re-use of medical data of the deceased on a voluntary basis. This pioneering study looks at the many factors involved when indi…
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- 9783030043636
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- x, 198p. : ill.
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- 174.29069 ETH e
Visual representations in science : concept and epistemology
Visual representations (photographs, diagrams, etc.) play crucial roles in scientific processes. They help, for example, to communicate research results and hypotheses to scientific peers as well as to the lay audience. In genuine research activities they are used as evidence or as surrogates for research objects which are otherwise cognitively inaccessible. Despite their important functional r…
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- 9781138089938
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- 372 p.; 22 cm.
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- 121 MOB v
Qualitative freedom : autonomy in cosmopolitan responsibility
In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality. The book sets out to examine as yet unexhausted ways to boost the resilience of the principle of liberalism. Critically reviewing the last 200 years of the philosophy of freedom, it revises the princ…
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- 9783030047238
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- x, 365p. : ill.
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- 123.5 DIE Q
Reality lost : markets of attention, misinformation and manipulation
This open access book looks at how a democracy can devolve into a post-factual state. The media is being flooded by populist narratives, fake news, conspiracy theories and make-believe. Misinformation is turning into a challenge for all of us, whether politicians, journalists, or citizens. In the age of information, attention is a prime asset and may be converted into money, power, and influ…
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- 9783030008130
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- xxi, 144p. : ill.
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- 070.43 HEN r
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