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“It's Not Deterministic and It Will Never Be Deterministic”: A Qualitative Study on Stakeholder Perspectives of Polygenic Risk Score Testing for Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes significant mental and physical distress, yet only a small subset of individuals exposed to trauma develop the disorder. Scientists and clinicians are still unable to predict who will get the disorder or how it will manifest.
Brandy M. Fox
wiley   +1 more source

Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons Suffering Solely from Mental Illness in Canada

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics
Photo ID 71252867© Stepan Popov| Dreamstime.com Abstract While Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) has been legalized in Canada since 2016, it still excludes eligibility for persons who have mental illness as a sole underlying medical condition. This
Chloe Eunice Panganiban   +1 more
doaj   +5 more sources

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Freedom of association and trade unionism in South Africa : from apartheid to the democratic constitutional order

open access: yes, 2007
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 297-330).This doctoral thesis deals with freedom of association and trade unionism in South Africa.
Budeli, Mpfariseni
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Profits versus human rights : accountability for corporate complicity in human rights violations

open access: yes, 2011
This thesis seeks to examine the interplay between business and human rights within the context of political transitions from authoritarian to democratic rule. In the wake of the globalisation process and the subsequent breakdown of the Westphalian state
Mathabathe, Rethabile
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Dignity of the Individual within the Legal Framework of the European Union

open access: yesEuropean Papers
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2026 11(2), 969–994 | Article | (Table of Contents) 1. Dignity and dignities in legal systems. – 2. The concept of human dignity in the employment relationship at the European level.
Dario Calderara
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

The monitoring of the rights of the child: a child rights-based approach

open access: yes, 2007
PhDDue to the lacunae between legal obligations to human rights and the actual situation, monitoring is an essential component of the international and national human rights system.
Collins, Tara Maeve
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UNIUNEA EUROPEANĂ LA RĂSCRUCE. PROVOCĂRI, OPORTUNITĂȚI, AȘTEPTĂRI [PDF]

open access: yesPolis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2019
Delors will contribute decisively to the relaunch of European construction without ever violating its principles and objectives, such as reducing social inequalities by bringing together different principles and interests.
Lorenzo SCARCELLI
doaj  

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