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Defining disability and the role of the disability and the medical communities
Theoria Abstract Definitions of disabilityare useful for different purposes and carry normative significance. However, defining disability has proven a difficult task. Communities with different theoreti
Uncivil speech in the social media: Democracy, Political liberalism, and the virtue of Public Reason
Constellations Introduction Initial hopes of the democratizing potential of the internet are increasingly replaced by fear that a fragmented and unedited public sphere unleashes the destructive forces o
Women in the Nordic Resistance Movement and their online media practices: between internalised misogyny and “embedded feminism”
Feminist Media Studies Abstract This paper is based on a case study of the online media practices of the neo-Nazi organisation, the Nordic Resistance Movement,conducted in the context of an ongoing proje
Democratic revolutions as institutional innovation diffusion: Rapid adoption and survival of democracy
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 80, Issue 8, October 2013, Pp. 1546–1556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2013.02.002 Abstract Recent ‘democratic revolutions’ in Islamic countries
Bo Rothstein: Should the Swedish Public Health Care be Nationalized? Consequences for Democracy, Legitimacy and Accountability.
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Bo Rothstein, who holds the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at University of Gothenburg, a position est
Bo Rothstein: Should the Swedish Public Health Care be Nationalized?
Research seminar with Bo Rothstein, who holds the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at University of Gothenburg, a position established by a donation to the university in 1901. His research conc
Where there is trust, there is testing
In the US, levels of Covid-19 testing have varied greatly between states. But there seems to be a pattern. According to a new study by Malcolm Fairbrother, researcher at Institute for Futures Studies, , states with high levels of social trust and social capital performs more Covid-19 tests.
Disease prioritarianism: A Flawed Principle
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, May 2015. DOI 10.1007/s11019-015-9649-2 Disease prioritarianism is a principle that is often implicitly or explicitly employed in the realm of healthcare prioritiz
Julian Savulescu - The Future of Humans. Moral Bioenhancement
www.iffs.se Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. His areas of research include the ethics of genetics, research ethics, medical ethics, sports ethics and the analy
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
