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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Personal Autonomy"”.
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Personal autonomy & its aesthetic preconditions: essays on aesthetic understanding & freedom.
… in which one finds oneself is not sufficient for personal autonomy. Something else is required before the self is realised in shared, socio-historical practices. How can this be, if as we said, there can be no self before these practices? By what principle do we decide whether a particular …
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Pedagogy as Dialogue between Cultures: Exploring Halaqah: an Islamic dialogic pedagogy that acts as a vehicle for developing Muslim children’s shakhsiyah (personhood, autonomy, identity) in a pluralist society
… for the use of dialogic halaqah to develop the personal autonomy of young Muslims in twenty-first century Britain. It begins by developing a theoretical grounding for Islamic conceptualisations of personal autonomy and dialogic pedagogy. In doing so, it aims to generate dialogue between Islamic …
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Study Abroad Length of Program Influence on Cross-Cultural Adaptability
… (c) perceptual acuity, and (d) personal autonomy. Data were collected using the Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI) (Kelley & Meyers, 1995). The target sample for this study was undergraduate college students that have participated in study abroad programs of varying …
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Predictors of organizational involvement : a test of the generality of Etzioni's (1961) compliance relations
… union membership, achievement motivation, personal autonomy, and liking for change. Alienative and moral involvement were confounded but their composite (net commitment) was distinct from calculative involvement Hierarchical regression analyses were carried out with the two kinds of …
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Predictors of organizational involvement : a test of the generality of Etzioni's (1961) compliance relations
… union membership, achievement motivation, personal autonomy, and liking for change. Alienative and moral involvement were confounded but their composite (net commitment) was distinct from calculative involvement Hierarchical regression analyses were carried out with the two kinds of …
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"Dat's one chile of mine you ain't never gonna sell": Gynecological Resistance within the Plantation Community
… abortion, and infanticide as a means to gain personal autonomy and control over their bodies. This study seeks to forge a collective narrative about the secret practices of slave women, while attempting to give them a voice of their own. Relying primarily on the WPA slave narratives, as well …
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Walking Through Fire: Black Men’s Quest for Autonomy in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and King Hedley II
… Hedley II</em>. Characters in these plays seek personal autonomy through economic stability. They seek these things during the turbulent times of the 1960's and 1980's in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Hill District. The roads they take are filled with self discovery, humility and peril.</p>
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Popular sovereignty without populism: autonomy, democracy, and citizen endorsement
… that is driven by a perceived dramatic loss in autonomy on the part of its members who see themselves as lacking control over important political outcomes. The dissertation rejects the first two interpretations of populist concern and offers a reconstruction of the third: it construes …
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Student Radicalism in Tennessee, 1954-1970
… and white students viewed attempts to establish personal autonomy within campus and community organising as centrally important to their activities. Black and white students understood personal autonomy in a broad sense, conceptualised of as ‘student power’: it covered immediate concerns over …
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Respecting autonomy: Education in practice
In my dissertation I examine the concept of personal autonomy and what it means to respect its exercise within the context of healthcare. In doing so I work to provide a model for doing medical ethics that is educational rather than exhortative, whose focus is helping healthcare providers (HCPs) …
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Women, development, and communities for empowerment: grassroots associations for change in Southwest Virginia
… theory of empowerment as a process of coming to personal autonomy through political community is presented as an alternative to the economism and individualism of conventional women in development analysis.
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Neutralizing the Conversation Between Physicians and Patients to Increase Vaccination Rates
… between government public health interests and personal autonomy, this paper advocates changing informed consent practices to their initial intention, which was to protect patients from battery rather then protect physicians from liability. This paper advocates for prioritizing patient-centered …
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A Requiem to Departed Days: The Transformation and Retrenchment of Planter-Class Women in Georgia
… families. For planter-class women, advances in personal autonomy were not discarded after the war, however, the more public nature of their postwar activities was conducted within the confines of a traditional gender construct, constrained by overarching issues of race and class. The diaries and …
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Exploring maternal employment in post-socialist countries: understanding the implications of childcare policies
… cultural and social implications, for both personal autonomy and gender equality. Eight most advanced postsocialist countries that entered the European Union in 2004 have boasted comparatively high full-time employment rates for women since the socialist period. However, the proportion of …
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The Limits to Appearance Autonomy in the Workplace: An Assessment of the Law and Recommendations for Reform in South Africa
… and present ourselves are indicative of our personal expression and unique identity. Appearance is a fundamental aspect of an individual's sense of self and is worthy of protection. Despite this, adverse decisions are often made on the basis of appearance, and appearance may determine our …
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The Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations of Younger LGB Couples in Long-term Relationships
… connection, and to maintain and cultivate personal autonomy alongside their couple identity. The temporal horizons of the past and the future inform relationship experiences in different ways, increasing understanding of relating behaviours and signifying a commitment to a shared future. …
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Autonomy in genetic counseling
This document only includes an excerpt of the corresponding thesis or dissertation. To request a digital scan of the full text, please contact the Ruth Lilly Medical Library's Interlibrary Loan Department (rlmlill@iu.edu).
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Solid Organ Donation and Islamic Bioethics in America: As Guided by International Sources and Contemporary Approaches to Forming Opinions
… tool to empower individuals in a way that meets personal and bioethical standards to enable decision-making. Specifically, the fatwa formula , eFatwa, and sites dedicated to connecting Muslims leaders with the ‘umma show a firsthand, contemporary approach to overcome geopolitical restrictions and …
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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", …
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CARING FOR A FAMILY MEMBER WITH DEMENTIA: COLLECTIVISM AND INDIVIDUALISM AS PREDICTORS OF CAREGIVER BURDEN
… severity. This suggests individuals prioritizing personal autonomy and achievement within hierarchical structures may experience increased caregiver burden. Exploratory analyses revealed a statistical interaction between vertical collectivism and social support on caregiver burden. This finding …
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