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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"philosophy and law"”.
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Evaluating the Target-Population Recommendations for Influenza Vaccination: Evidence and Ethics
The influenza virus infects between 5 and 10 percent of the population each year, resulting in acute respiratory illness ranging from subclinical to severe; during a pandemic, 50 percent of the population can easily be infected. Influenza infection creates serious social, economic, and public …
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Rethinking Legal Pragmatism: A Philosophical Approach
… a contemporary spokesperson for legal pragmatism and the law and economics movement. Posner holds that academic philosophy and philosophical pragmatism in particular has no role to play in legal pragmatism as it manifests itself in the process of adjudication and the process of legal scholarship. …
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Modeling social norms in real-world agent-based simulations
Studying and simulating social systems including human groups and societies can be a complex problem. In order to build a model that simulates humans' actions, it is necessary to consider the major factors that affect human behavior. Norms are one of these factors: social norms are the customary …
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Medical ethics and the regulation of medical practice with particular reference to the development of medical ethics within the British Medical Association 1832-1993
This volume records observed data between 1984 and 1994 with a more formalised observational period between January 1991 and December 1993. It records data taken from original historical records kept in the Association's Archive at BMA House in London. These data have been analysed and categorised …
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Moral Rights in Copyright Law: Personality, the Self, & the Author-Work Relation
Moral rights in copyright law are noneconomic rights that entitle the author to control how the author is divulged, modified, and attributed. They are based on the idea that each author alone stands in a special relation (“Relation A”) to her work by virtue of creating it. Despite the quite …