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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"paternalism"”.
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The Story of Medicine: From Paternalism to Partnership
… revealing its humanity as well as its fading paternalism.
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Autonomy, Paternalism, and the Moral Foundations of the Fiduciary Relationship
… problems: moral-legal equivocation and paternalism. Legal-moral equivocation refers to the problem of assuming that the normative demands of a legal relationship are also morally normative. The cogent use of the fiduciary relationship in bioethical analysis requires some justification as …
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Westfield War Memorial Village : disability, paternalism and philanthropy, 1915-2015
Despite a growing amount of study into war-related disability, little research has been undertaken into the role played by the paternalistic philanthropists and volunteers who did so much to support the individuals directly affected. This thesis endeavours to go some way towards redressing the …
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Power, Resistance and Ritual: Paternalism on the Clonbrock Estates 1826-1908
Until now works on big houses and landed estates have been published in two separate and specific genres. On the one hand there are the familiar coffee table books with glossy photographs depicting architectural splendour, lavish interiors, or ghostly ruins, and on the other there are the academic …
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The ethics of labor automation : AI, technological disenfranchisement, and libertarian paternalism
The capitalist economic landscape constantly reinvents itself to capture new value opportunities, in an endless innovative process of what Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction"'. Its next major event, hastened by the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the emergence of highly …
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William Henry Harrison's Indiana: Paternalism and Patriotism on the Frontier, 1795--1812
I argue that Americans prior to the War of 1812 maintained practially the same ideology that had driven them through the Revolution, i.e., a tendency to attribute all social or political ills to British influence. The Declaration of Independence had blamed George III for slavery, Indian wars, and …
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Persistent paternalism : an ethnography of social change in a post-apartheid village
This ethnographic study of Nieu Bethesda, a village in the Eastern Cape district of South Africa, is the product of a total of five months of fieldwork. The research was conducted between 1993 and 1995, a period that spanned the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994. The ethnography …
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The demise of industrial paternalism: the case of southern textiles, 1880-1940
… was the socio-economic system of industrial paternalism, which disappeared from the Southern Piedmont in the 40s when mills began to sell villages. This thesis attempts to explain the demise of industrial paternalism in the case of the Southern textiles. Conventional treatments of paternalism …
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From paternalism to individualism : representations of women in the nineteenth century English novel
… dominant codes, especially in relation to paternalism and gender. What strikes me about these novels is that although the female characters are limited by society, they are not ineffectual. Rather the authors portray women in control of their lives and able to make choices for themselves …
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Can Mixed Martial Arts be Ethically Defended?: Autonomy, Paternalism and the Harm Principle
… referring to the ethical concepts of autonomy, paternalism and the Harm Principle. Findings from interviews with MMA athletes as well as my personal experience of MMA were presented to establish a deeper understanding of the sport and what it means to train and compete in a sport defined as …
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Restructuring paternalism : the changing nature of labour control on wine farms in Koelenhof
… resulted in corresponding changes in the form of paternalism that has characterised the relations of production in the Western Cape for the past three centuries. 4. Whilst the change to co-optive managerial techniques has improved working and living conditions for farmworkers, it has not …
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Professional attractiveness, inside sponsorship, and perceived paternalism as predictors of upward mobility of public school superintendents
… variables, inside sponsorship, and perceived paternalism. Data were analyzed using multiple regression and discriminant analysis.
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Toying with Americanization: The Impact of Corporate Paternalism on Immigrant Children in Early 20th Century Colorado Coal Mining Communities
<p>During the early 20<sup>th</sup> century coal miners' lives in Southern Colorado were fraught with violence and hardships. Many immigrant men brought their families to remote areas to live in company towns and work in coal mines. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) attempted to assimilate …
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The ‘therapeutic privilege exception’. Residual paternalism in an age of informed consent post Montgomery or a valuable tool for healthcare professionals?
… exception’ as a reminder of the residual paternalism in healthcare. The development of the therapeutic privilege exception in a range of other domestic jurisdictions alongside the UK will be examined, and its inconsistency and lack of clarity will be highlighted. Close consideration will …
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Powerlessness and Pollution in Alleghany County, Virginia: A Historical Analysis of Paternalism and Economic Coercion in Appalachia and its Relationship with Environmental Degradation
… the degree to which MeadWestvaco utilizes paternalism and economic coercion as forms of power to control and maintain community quiescence regarding the company's negative environmental impact in Alleghany County. This paper mill has negatively affected Alleghany County relative to other …
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Estate management at Goodwood in the mid nineteenth century: A study in changing roles and relationships
… Repeal of the Corn Laws. It considers the Duke's paternalism as expressed in his altitude to Repeal, in the daily running of his own estate, in his dealings with agents, farmers, estate workers and the local townspeople of Chichester. Richmond's paternalism was concerned with the moral improvement …
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The United States and irregular warfare 1899-2011
… War onward through the lens of paternalism and the military strategies and tactics employed by the United States. The Philippine-American War was the first war the United States waged to maintain its overseas empire. This war would set precedents for many of the future conflicts …
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Friesens Corporation, printers in Mennonite Manitoba, 1951-1995
… With the company's success and expansion, paternalism was no longer able to meet the needs of the employees. The collapse of paternalism was accompanied by a transfer of managerial control to a new generation of family members and employees. The earlier paternalism was replaced by a human …
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