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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Individual autonomy"”.
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A focus on the pedagogical relevance of the school in harmonizing education for individual autonomy with responsible citizenship : implications for a school curriculum
… talk on the rights, needs and interests of the individual. Such talks are more often than not, founded on a big caption of individual autonomy or in¬dividual freedom. As the position of the individual is exalted, schools are also blamed for failing to enhance the status of the individual. The …
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Autonomy and neutrality in liberal political thought
… hold the view that we ought to define freedom as individual autonomy. Moreover, such liberals claim that the state is required to promote and protect freedom conceived of as individual autonomy. Such autonomy-based liberalism is frequently criticized for its efforts to simultaneously maintain both …
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Advance Care Planning in Advanced Heart Failure: A Relational Exploration of Autonomy
… (HF), ACP is regarded as a means of preserving individual autonomy throughout the illness trajectory. Despite significant public awareness campaigns, research and interventions developed to increase participation in ACP, this practice remains severely under-utilized by those who are chronically …
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Navigating Advocacy as a Disabled Woman: A Qualitative Study of Gender and Disability in Pakistan
… which are often grounded in visibility and individual autonomy. By centering embodied knowledge and relational agency, this research offers an in-depth account of disability advocacy among Pakistani disabled women.
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Mature in Christ: the contribution of Ephesians and Colossians to constructing Christian maturity in modernity
… directed the goal of human existence towards individual autonomy, and subsequent psycho-social theory has standardised the attainment of this goal according to a series of developmental stages. Whilst there are different trends in modern constructions of Christian maturity, the paradigm of …
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Medicaid Managed Care: Providing Compassionate, Person-Centered Care for Individuals Dependent on the Public System
… on person-centered care and a modern view of autonomy. It will review the history of managed care as well as the evolution of bioethical values and a modern view of healthcare. Specifically, this thesis will reject that managed care is paternalistic but, if done properly, in fact promotes …
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Retention of best practices by clinicians after knowledge transfer
… it there. A spectrum of factors, including individual autonomy, time, resources, organizational support and the organization of the system all played a role.In the end, participants revealed that although small pieces of the pathway remain in practice, the pathway itself is no longer used by …
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Good life in the balance: A cross-national study of Dutch and Australian disability perspectives on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
… because issues of dependence, independence, and individual autonomy play important roles in relation to both EPAS and to living with disability. The study's methodology uses a phenomenological approach and incorporates aspects of heuristics and grounded theory. Its conceptual framework …
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The democratic prospects of literacy
… demonstrate how liberal democratic ideals of individual autonomy and universal impartiality have shaped dominant conceptions of literacy. I further demonstrate the inadequacy of liberalism for addressing the relations of group oppression that define the color line in the United States. …
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Permanent Shelter in The Empire City: Youth Experiencing Family Homelessness and Navigating the Homeless Industrial Complex with a Narrative Inquiry Approach
… and their families, functionally limiting the individual autonomy of those experiencing homelessness within a political-economic practice that often ensnares generations of families. This dissertation argues that the everyday stories of Black, Indigenous and Historically Oppressed Persons …
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Freedom of expression under apartheid
… believed that such right was a prerequisite for individual autonomy and self-fulfillment. They claimed that it strengthened democracy, by allowing individuals to receive all information on issues of public concern which they needed to vote intelligently. Lastly, they argued that it promoted the …
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An Organizational Ethics Framework to Balance Individual Privacy and Population Interests Regarding Genetic Technologies
… privacy as one of the most esteemed rights for individuals. As such, the culture adamantly defends the right to privacy to ensure individuals have the opportunity to live freely. In the American healthcare system, the right to privacy is critical for individual autonomy. However, genetic science …
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Mandating the HPV Vaccine as a School-Entry Requirement: Ethical and Policy Considerations
… public health benefit to justify overriding individual autonomy for the sake of the public good. Although the HPV vaccine confers prospective benefit in the form of prevention of HPV-derived cancers to those who receive it, there is not enough of a public health necessity to justify imposing …
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Deliberation in Practice: Deliberative Theory, News Media, and Political Conversation
… procedures used to achieve democratic goals of individual autonomy and mutually beneficial policy outcomes, few studies have asked to what extent contemporary American society resembles a deliberative democracy. In order to assess the prospects for deliberative democracy, everyday political …
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Cyborg Psychology: The Art & Science of Designing Human-AI Systems that Support Human Flourishing
… stimulating critical thinking, and preserving individual autonomy in decision-making.
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Time for me and time for us: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of accompanying spouses’ participation in conference travel
… spouses’ accounts: ‘the experience of providing individual autonomy’, ‘the experience of creating positive emotions for the relationship’ and ‘the experience of social inclusion and exclusion’. Firstly, the majority of accompanying spouses described ‘the experience of providing individual …
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The Priesthood of All Believers in Ecclesiological Development
… functioning as an anthropological warrant for individual autonomy, the doctrine constitutes the church as a corporate temple of adopted sons, enabling direct access to the Father and charging the congregation with shared ecclesial responsibilities. To demonstrate this, the study establishes the …
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Accounting for health and illness: A social psychological investigation
… These latter included accounts about personal autonomy, and, importantly, the 'medical model" account. In the thesis overall, among the accounts identified were ones based upon notions of : "the wonders of modern medicine"; "stress"; "the cultural critique'; 'a healthy lifestyle", 'tradition"; …
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Risky Business: The Economy of Self-Management in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
… of man to the world by imagining that the individual was capable of controlling aspects of life that had hitherto been left to God or fate. This shift, moreover, established one of the defining characteristics of modernity, linking individual autonomy to the process of managing risk in a …
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