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Gambling with Death
Topoi, doi.org/10.1007/s11245-017-9519-z Abstract Orthodox expected utility theory imposes too stringent restrictions on what attitudes to risk one can rationally hold. Focusing on a life-and-death gambl
Climate change: Life and death
John Broome, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy The international community has agreed on the aim of avoiding dangerous interference with the climate system. Determining what level of interference i
Luc Bovens: Secular Hopes in the Face of Death
Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. ABSTRACT We will discuss various questions concerning secular hopes in the face of death, that is, hopes other than the hope for eternal life. What
Healthcare Rationing and the Badness of Death: Should Newborns Count for Less?
in: Saving People from the Harm of Death, Eds. Espen Gamlund and Carl Tollef Solberg, p. 255-266, Oxford University Press. In this volume, leading philosophers, medical doctors, and economists discuss
Women's experience of child death over the life course: A global demographic perspective
AbstractThe death of a child affects the well-being of parents and families worldwide but very little is known about the scale of this phenomenon. We provide the first global overview of parental bere
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Review of Elizabeth Barnes, The Minority Body: Theory of Disability
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 224, £25. Ratio. doi:10.1111/rati.12151 What does being disabled mean for the disabled individual’s life? Does being a disabled individual have inherent negatregarding disability.
Archives of/as resistance: On the justice potential of eyewitness image records documenting the Syrian conflict
Media, Culture & Society Abstract What are the new possibilities of enacting justice through the vast archives of digital eyewitness images and self-representations produced since 2011 by the grassr
Modeling bacterial attenuation in onsite waste-water treatment systems using the active region model and column-scale data
Environmental Earth Sciences 74(6), pp. 4827-4837, doi: 10.1007/s12665-01 Abstract Bacterial attenuation in porous media is often higher in columns than in the field. This study investigates whether this
The ethical void: a critical analysis of commissioned expert reports on Swedish healthcare governance
Journal of Health Organization and Management Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute knowledge on ethical issues and reasoning in expertreports concerning healthcare governance, cDesign/methodology/approach – An in-depth analysis of ethical issues and reasoning in 36 commissionedexpert reports was performed. Twenty-seven interviews with commissioners and producers of the reports werealso carried out and analysed.Findings – Some ethical issues were identified in the reports. But ethical reasoning was rarely evident. Themeaning of ethical concepts could be devalued and changed over time and thereby deviate from statutoryethical goals and values. Several ethical issues of great concern for the Swedish public healthcare were alsoabsent.Practical implications – The commissioner of expert reports needs to ensure that comprehensive ethicalconsiderations and ethical analysis are integrated in the expert reports.Originality/value – Based on an extensive data material this paper reveals an ethical void in expert reportson healthcare governance. By avoiding ethical issues there is a risk that the expert reports could bring aboutreforms and control models that have ethically undesirable consequences for people and society.