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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"relational autonomy"”.
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Essays on Privilege and its Implications for Relational Autonomy and Vaccine Hesitancy
… privilege in the context of feminist debates on relational autonomy. Recently, strong substantive and constitutive accounts of relational autonomy have come under criticism. Critics argue these accounts generate perverse conclusions about oppressed agents. I show these accounts generate the same …
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The Contribution of African Traditional Medicine For a Model of Relational Autonomy in Informed Consent
… liberal approach to informed consent defines autonomy as an independent choice or decision made by an individual as the final authority in medical decision-making. This approach is so dominant that one can fail to see the merits of other traditional and cultural perspectives. In this …
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Doing the Right Thing: Relational Ethics in Institutional Caregiving for Veterans
This research explored psychological, social, and relational aspects of caregiving. It examined documented resolution of ethical dilemmas precipitated by veterans' medical crises and involved formal caregivers, informal caregivers, and veteran patients. The unit of analysis was caregiving …
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Persistence of Female Faculty in STEM
… paradigms of self-determination theory and relational autonomy, this study extended understanding of the factors that motivate persistence for women in certain STEM fields. While prior research focused on understanding the barriers to retention, this study sought to identify the factors …
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An Ethics of Care Approach to Managing the Burden of Alzheimer's Disease
… of Alzheimer’s disease when its two components, relational autonomy and social responsibility, are integrated and analyzed.</p> <p>From the earliest stages to the most severe stages of Alzheimer’s disease the ethics of care can help to incorporate personal care and the public good, providing …
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Discharge Planning with Older Adults: The Influence of Social and Political Systems and Contexts
… a critical bioethics perspective and using relational autonomy theory, this research examined how social and political contexts shaped discharge-planning processes and outcomes. Discourses of aging-as-decline, beliefs privileging healthcare professionals’ expertise and conventions guiding …
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The Legal Treatment of Informal Caregivers of the Elderly in Canada and Australia: The Importance of Recognizing Relations in Creating Reforms
… are analyzed and evaluated through the lens of relational autonomy. Australia for the most part has more supports than Canada, although improvements can be made to these supports to make them more effective in supporting informal caregivers in Canada. My policy recommendations include increasing …
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A Transnational and Intergenerational Account of Value Preference Patterns: Revisiting Needs-gratification and Post-materialist Theories
… 1971), this paper discusses agency in terms of relational autonomy (Oshana, 2006), as it pertains to power. I argue that a) personal and national economic affluence or security may not be sufficient to describe social ecology nor fully describe the ways that power can influence values, b) …
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Security and emancipation as resistance: how contesting and navigating narratives of women in Chechnya impacts NGO actions
… these boundaries is demonstrated through relational autonomy and relational thinking that will show NGOs mobilising, navigating and contending with various narratives of women developed from the Chechen government, Russian government, and international treaties focused on gender. These …
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Freedom, Society, And The Individual In Early Modern Women's Thought
… order in Cavendish’s metaphysics; the problem of autonomy for socially-constituted subjects in Suchon’s ethics and, by contrast, in the ethics of contemporary relational autonomy theory; the revolutionary solutions to the gendered traps of aesthetic ideology presented by Mary Wollstonecraft; and …
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Fluidity: “art-oriented meta-ontology” in painting practice
… understood as temporally recursive, materially relational, and a continuously active process that emerges through embodied making, environmental conditions, and cross-cultural dialogue. Situated within contemporary painting discourse, the research brings together studio experimentation, …
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Advance Care Planning in Advanced Heart Failure: A Relational Exploration of Autonomy
… 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 ill. This …
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Trials and tribunals: consensus seeking in course design approval in Higher Education
… to the development of the theoretical concept of autonomy from which a model of curriculum development knowledge can be derived; and to the empirical understanding of the conditions for curriculum development. Drawing on social realism this study applies Bourdieu’s field theory to identify the …
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Centralizing Ambiguity: Simone de Beauvoir and a Twenty-First Century Ethics
… to contemporary feminist thought on the self, autonomy, and ethics. More specifically, I argue that this text has the potential to make unique contributions to these areas of contemporary feminist philosophy.</p>
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La autonomía socio-relacional de marina Oshana en el contexto de las competencias ciudadanas
En este artículo se hace un análisis sobre la concepción de autonomía que subyace a la propuesta de competencias ciudadanas desarrolladas por el Ministerio de Educación Nacional de Colombia. La tesis que se propone es que existe un déficit con respecto al desarrollo o fundamentación de la autonomía …
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Condiciones para preservar e valor moral del consentimiento informado en medicina
El consentimiento informado (CI) en medicina corre el riesgo de quedar reducido a un formalismo legal sin valor moral; esto puede suceder por dos cosas: 1) como consecuencia de que el paciente no comprenda con suficiencia el concepto de autonomía y 2) debido a la disminución de la autonomía …