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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Moral Duty"”.
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Euthanasia and the duty to die: a moral advocacy of the responsibility to end life at the right time
… of this project is to investigate thoroughly the moral issues related to death and dying in medical contexts, focusing on those cases where patients seek help to die on their own terms. The focus of the debate in society at large tends to focus on the question of whether it is morally permissible …
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Printing the Pandemic: An Analysis of H1N1 Vaccine News Coverage
… and emphasized themes of risk, uncertainty, moral duty and responsibility.
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No place for a white woman? An exploration of the interplay of gender, race and class on power relations experienced by white western women in cross-cultural settings
… what they like but that, somehow, they have a moral duty to do so. Life writers can ‘challenge our society’s enormous untruthfulness,’ writes David Parker (cited in Helen, 2006, p. 326). Other authors urge life writers to stand by the courage of their convictions and question the status quo to …
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Genetic Sequencing in Healthy Populations
… safeguards are put into place, parents have a moral duty, based on the child’s right to future autonomy and right not to know genetic information, not to permit WGS to be performed on their children.
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The Effects of Limited Health Literacy in the Healthcare Context
… Clinicians and research investigators have a moral duty to recognize and attend to differences in literacy abilities in their patient and participant populations so that they can uphold a high standard of valid informed consent. The causes and consequences of poor population health literacy …
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Philosophical exploration of transsexuality
… valuable, and where this is the case there is no moral imperative to remove it. So, whilst there is a serious moral duty to respond to suffering there is no absolute duty to alleviate it. An alternative model is then explored. A model of authenticity, which can replace the medical model, better …
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L’efficacité de l’encadrement du secours par le médecin en dehors de ses fonctions : analyse du droit québécois à la lumière du droit comparé
… (termed “rescue” in some jurisdictions) is morally commendable, the relevance of transforming this moral duty into a legal one has long been at the center of a heated debate. Despite abundant literature on the topic, in Québec and elsewhere, the issue has never been resolved. The arguments …
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Cultivating the Moral Imagination
The moral imagination is a type of moral competence, moral disposition, or moral intelligence that can be cultivated and that leads to an expanded vision of whom the moral agent has a moral duty to. The moral imagination is essential in the lifework of the clinician and it is a type of moral …
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North Korean Migrants' Integration into South Korean Society: Policies, Perceptions and Realities
… three distinct patterns--shared ethnicity, a moral duty toward ethnic migrants and preference within receiving states' legislative and institutional practices. In looking at the movement of North Korean migrants to the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and their socio-economic integration …
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Rise to power? : The foreign policy of the second grover cleveland administration, 1893-1897
… principles. It also included elements of moral duty and a belief that the United States should be an example to other nations. The template was formulated on a largely ad hoc basis through several foreign policy incidents throughout the term, but its underlying values were present …
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Nicholas Wolterstorff's Reformed epistemology and its challenge to Lockean and Rawlsian liberalism.
… whether citizens of a liberal democracy have a moral duty of religious-reason restraint in their public deliberations. Two basic strands of political theory are proposed as talking partners for Wolterstorff. The first is an Enlightenment public epistemology liberalism that argues for …
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The Duty to Grieve Strangers
In this paper, I argue that we have a duty to grieve the deaths of strangers. Specifically, I argue that we have a moral duty to grieve the deaths of fellow members of our social-political communities when their deaths result from systemic injustice. This grief is not identical to the grief one …
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Born free and equal?: on the ethical consistency of animal equality
… in nature, reflecting on notions such as moral intuitions, universalism, consistency and coherence. It demonstrates that moral illusions might exist and offers a method to discover such moral illusions. The second part turns to normative ethics, dealing with principles of welfare, justice …
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Cultural capital and cultural repertoires among the black middle-class: race, class, and culture in the racialised social system
… of Afro-centrism to argue that they have a moral duty to positively uphold black diasporic histories, identities, and culture. They therefore prioritise consuming cultural forms which give positive, authentic representations of the black diaspora, consequently challenging the devaluation of …