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Ethical Position (ethical + position)
Selected AbstractsPerceptions of adolescents and young people regarding endemic dental fluorosis in a rural area of Brazil: psychosocial sufferingHEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY, Issue 6 2009Lia Silva de Castilho MSD Abstract Severe dental fluorosis is endemic in some rural areas of Brazil. This paper describes the psychosocial consequences of this condition and how it has affected the self-esteem of adolescents and young people in a rural area in Brazil. Semi-structured, face-to-face interviews were carried out with 23 adolescents and young people affected by severe dental fluorosis and 14 of their teachers. The study revealed the affected individuals were embarrassed to smile at strangers due to a presumed association between fluorosis and a lack of dental hygiene. Further findings include conflicts between affected and non-affected students at school, problems in pursuing a romantic relationship and uncertainties regarding a professional future. Disbelief and scepticism were observed regarding the ethical position that science can offer a solution to the problems stemming from the disease. Lesions from severe dental fluorosis appear to be a stigmatising factor and have contributed toward suffering and self-exclusion among an entire generation of adolescents and young people. [source] So what exactly is a nurse?JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC & MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, Issue 4 2006L. CLARKE rn dip n dip ed dip theol dmpsa ba msc phd The problematic nature of defining nursing is examined. Contrasts are set out in respect of the work of different grades of practitioner and how these do or do not constitute nursing care. A concept of caring and caring profession is utilized as a backdrop by which it is argued that caring can be defended as an ethical position independently of its objects of care. The paper asserts the existence of different perspectives within mental health nursing and demonstrates how these are influenced by extraneous forces. It concludes by (1) defending universal moral rules that operate independently of situations or the objects to which they apply and (2) that the usefulness of invoking a nursing identity may be less rather than more illuminative in exposing what mental health (psychiatric) ,nursing' is. [source] Defining corporate social responsibility,JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, Issue 3-4 2006Wan Saiful Wan-Jan This paper aims to provide a working definition of corporate social responsibility (CSR). It begins by describing how the lack of a widely agreed definition contributed to misunderstandings and cynicism towards the concept itself and argued that hence the need for a working definition. The paper then goes on to divide current literature on CSR, and current business practices, into two main categories depending on the way CSR is perceived,as an ethical position or as a business strategy. A brief overview on how CSR is practised in the real business world is also presented. The paper describes how practitioners seem to be practising CSR despite the lack of a universally agreed definition. Subsequently, based on the ongoing academic debates on CSR and on examples of what is happening in the real business world, the paper concludes with a proposed definition that reconciles ongoing academic debates with practice. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Integrating evaluation units into the political environment of government: The role of evaluation policyNEW DIRECTIONS FOR EVALUATION, Issue 123 2009Eleanor Chelimsky Most discussions of evaluation policy focus on the substance and process of doing evaluations. However, doing evaluations in government requires careful consideration not only of evaluation but also of the larger political structure into which it is expected to fit. I argue in this chapter that success for evaluation in government depends as much on the political context within which evaluation operates as it does on the merits of the evaluation process itself. For convenience, I divide the contextual governmental pressures on evaluation into three kinds: those stemming from the overarching structure of our democracy, those stemming from the bureaucratic climate of a particular agency, and those stemming from the dominant professional culture within that agency. I then examine how those three kinds of pressures have, in my experience, affected the independence, credibility, and ethical position of the evaluation units and evaluators concerned. Finally, I offer some suggestions for evaluation policy in the hope of avoiding a repetition of past evaluative failures that resulted either from unawareness of political relationships in government or from the inability of small evaluation units to protect their work in the face of much more powerful political forces. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Ritual, Stories, and the Poetics of a Journey Home Among Latino CatholicsANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS, Issue 1 2009DAVID P. SANDELL ABSTRACT This essay centers on a storyteller's performance of ritual in stories to draw associations between the life of the Biblical Mary with her son Jesus and the subjectivities and dispositions of people living in impoverished conditions. The storyteller explores these subjectivities and dispositions, characterizing the exploration as a journey. She also defines an ethical position where the self meets otherness,both sacred and cultural,to engender positive human relations. The essay combines the storyteller's performance with the author's to reproduce the effects, advance the ethics, mitigate the politics of representation, and provide an understanding of the journey's end,a place called home. [source] Suicides and suicide ideation in the Bible: an empirical surveyACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA, Issue 3 2005H. J. Koch Objective:, The aim of this review is to summarize all data on suicidal behaviour reported in the Bible and to discuss basic implications for medical ethical positions. Method:, All books of the Jerusalem Bible, including the apocrypha accepted in the Catholic canon, were searched for all cases of suicide, attempted suicide and suicidal ideation clearly identifiable as such. Results:, The Bible including the apocrypha reports about 10 completed suicides and 11 cases of suicide attempt or ideation. The Bible considers human life as a divine gift but suicide per se is neither condemned nor approved. Those suffering from suicidal thoughts are treated with respect and support is offered. Conclusion:, Theological teaching on suicide was influenced for centuries by the biased negative opinion of the early fathers of the church and scholastic savants, but these opinions are not substantiated by a thorough reading of the Bible. [source] Exploring consumer ethics in Ghana, West AfricaINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSUMER STUDIES, Issue 6 2007Samuel K. Bonsu Abstract Consumer ethics is a growing area of research that focused almost exclusively on consumers in the United States and, to a lesser degree, Europe and Asia. In this paper, we introduce an African element to the consumer ethics discourse by drawing on survey responses from over 300 Ghanaian consumers to explore their ethical beliefs and judgements. We analysed these data using regression techniques. Our findings show that Ghanaian consumers exhibit lower levels of ethics compared with their America counterparts, especially when the unethical actions facilitate the achievement of their goals. While Ghanaian consumers recognize the value of moral rules, they are prone to suspending their ethical positions as they deem necessary in a particular context. Implications for marketing strategy and future research are discussed. [source] The Urban Landscape of Hyde Park: Adrian Stokes, Conrad and the topos of negationART HISTORY, Issue 2 2000Stephen Kite Adrian Stokes's (1902-72) construct of the urban landscape of Hyde Park as a topos of negation is a remarkable recorded instance in twentieth century criticism of the influence of environment in directing an aesthetic position. Stokes's London landscape of Hyde Park and the monuments embedded within it represented, for him, a powerful negative heuristic; a set of negative rules inscribed within his personal cultural system for the purposes of rejection, and deployed to define , in antithesis , his critical direction. His accounts of Hyde Park are, outwardly, a withering critique of Edwardian moral vacuity and Victorian eclecticism while inwardly , on the psycho-analytic level , they register projections of inner anxiety and personal guilt at the ,destroyed mother' that the Park represents and drive his need to make reparation. The paper examines the formation of Stokes's mental construct of the Park through a close mapping of this landscape and a concrete examination of its artefacts in relation to readings of Stokes's own writings and those of Joseph Conrad, Ruskin and others. Following an outline of Stokes's thought in the context of Kleinian psychoanalysis the paper takes Lakatos's concept of the negative heuristic as a point of departure to chart a journey from Stokes's childhood home in Radnor Place, Bayswater through the park to the Albert Memorial. These topographies disclose Stokes's offensive responses to the Park and its artefacts and show how , in eschewing Hyde Park and all it represents , he begins to discover formal and ethical positions that will frame the core of his architectural-artistic theories. [source] | ||||||||||||||||