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The Social Neuroscience of Intergroup Relations: Prejudice, can we cure it
The Social Neuroscience of Intergroup Relations; Prejudice can we cure it?” is a highly interdisciplinary book. It includes latest theories and research from: Social Psychology, Ethics, Psychopharmacology, as well as Social Neuroscience. The book is also based on the author’s team research. The book describes experimental studies which have suggested that fear of the out-group might play a …
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- 978-3-319-46338-4
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Application of Systems Thinking to Health Policy & Public Health Ethics: Publ…
This book looks at health policy through the lens of public versus private: population health versus the somatic, social, or emotional experiences of a patient. Rather than presenting policy/ethics as overly technical, this book takes a novel approach of framing public and private health in terms of political philosophy, ethics, and popular examples. Each chapter ties back to the general ethics…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-12203-8
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- XI, 100
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- SpringerBriefs in Public Health
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- 614 BAT a
On Moral Capital
This book promotes the original concept of “Moral Capital” as the key to analyzing the nature and function of morality in economic activities. The book is divided into three major sections. In the first, the author argues that the logical connections between morality and economy and those between morality and profit provide a concrete theoretical basis for the concept of moral capital. In t…
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- 1
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- 978-3-662-45543-2
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- XI, 266
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The Golden Rule in Sports
Elite level sport lends itself to a highly competitive environment that encourages players to seek a competitive advantage in order to win. Since competition is an inherent condition that is also considered desirable in this setting, it may at first glance seem as if cooperation does not have any room in elite level sports. Sustainable cooperation can be mutually advantageous for players, but i…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-07028-1
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- XVI, 189, 17 b/w illustrations
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- The Golden Rule in Sports
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The Nature of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
This book serves to unite biomedical principles, which have been criticized as a model for solving moral dilemmas by inserting them and understanding them through the perspective of the phenomenon of health care relationship. Consequently, it attributes a possible unification of virtue-based and principle-based approaches.
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- 1
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- 978-94-007-4939-9
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- VI, 86, 1 b/w illustrations
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics
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Narrowed Lives : Meaning, Moral Value, and Profound Intellectual Disability
What is day-to-day life like for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities who live in group homes? How do they express their desires and wishes? How do care workers think about them and treat them? Do they have basic rights to activities most of us take for granted: activities like sociability, sexuality, and moral affirmation? Narrowed Lives is an illuminating portrait of wh…
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- 9789176351482
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- 150 VEH n
New Perspectives on Paternalism and Health Care
This work sets the stage regarding debates about paternalism and health care for years to come. The anthology is organized around four parts: i) The concept of paternalism and theoretical issues regarding the idea of anti-paternalism, ii) strategies for justifying different forms of paternalism, iii) paternalism in psychiatry and psychotherapy, iv) paternalism and public health, and v) paternal…
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- 1
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- 1387-6678
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- XII, 299
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- Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
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New Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility
Providing a timely contribution to the ongoing questions surrounding topics which are by definition subject to varying stakeholder interpretations, this book addresses “the missing link” between theoretical CSR concepts and everyday management practice. It acts as a guide to awaken managers to the advantages of adopting a CSR “mindset” when developing sustainable business strategies. Th…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-06793-9
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- XVI, 641
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- FOM-Edition
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New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
This book provides novel perspectives on the ethical justifiability of assisted dying. Seeking to go beyond traditional debates on topics such as the value of human life and questions surrounding intention and causation, this volume promises to shift the terrain of the ethical debates about assisted dying. It reconsiders the role of patient autonomy and paternalistic reasons as well as the part…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-22049-9
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- IX, 252
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- International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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The Nature of Children's Well-Being
This book presents new findings that deal with different facets of the well-being of children and their relevance to the proper treatment of children. The well-being of children is considered against the background of a wide variety of legal, political, medical, educational and familial perspectives. The book addresses diverse issues from a range of disciplinary perspectives using a variety of …
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- 978-94-017-9252-3
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- XIX, 262
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- Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research
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