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Ethics of health promotion

WEBAttempts by states and other organisations to promote people’s health make use of a number of different tools and target various different groups and behaviours. These …

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Conscientious objection in healthcare

WEBWhen healthcare professionals ask for a conscientious objection to be accommodated, they are requesting an exemption from a work role they object to, on moral or religious …

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Feminist bioethics

WEBEnergised by this activism, feminist bioethics critiqued medical and bioethical theory and practice using sex, gender, and other oppressive mechanisms as categories of analysis …

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Medicine, philosophy of

WEBThe philosophy of medicine can be generally defined as encompassing those issues in epistemology, axiology, logic, methodology and metaphysics generated by or related to …

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Good, theories of the

WEBHe identified reason as the human function, meaning that what is distinctive of human beings is the use of reason to govern our activities. Virtues are qualities that foster the …

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Environmental aesthetics

WEBEnvironmental aesthetics, considering as it does the world at large and motivated in part by public concern for the aesthetic condition of everyday environments, has broadened …

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Mind and body in early modern philosophy

WEBArticle Summary. European philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries proposed a wide range of views about the nature of the mind and its relation to the body. …

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Environmental aesthetics

WEBEnvironmental aesthetics is one of the three or four new areas of aesthetics that have been developed in the second half of the twentieth century. And, although it has emerged as a …

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Big data in healthcare

WEBThe current era of ‘big data’ in healthcare is a direct result of the gradual culmination across decades of accumulation of large volumes of data, along with substantial advances in …

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Environmental aesthetics

WEBEnvironmental aesthetics is one of the major new areas of aesthetics that emerged in the last part of the twentieth century. It focuses on philosophical issues concerning …

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Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905–80)

WEBArticle Summary. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80) is one of the best-known philosophers of the twentieth century. He was also a novelist, literary critic, playwright, essayist, biographer, …

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