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Bioethics and the World Order: A Curious Coincidence Between Chinese and African Approaches

Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The post‐1945 world order is standardly pictured as a Westphalian system, in which each state is equal under the law with sovereign authority over its territories. This paper argues that the Westphalian system is changing and examines the implications for bioethics. We show that cross‐border health, economic, ecologic, and sociopolitical risks
Nancy S. Jecker, Jing‐Bao Nie, Anita Ho   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Private money and money market integration: The role of payments infrastructure in nineteenth‐century Switzerland

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Using newly collected discount rate data for six Swiss cities from 1846 to 1893, we find no evidence of increasing integration during a 30‐year period of lightly regulated free banking. We attribute this to two structural issues: banks had incentives to ward off competitors by protecting their local monopolies or forming cartels, and there was
Daniel Kaufmann, Rebecca Stuart
wiley   +1 more source

From Audit to Prosecution: Institutional Collaboration as a Solution to Closing the Expectations Gap in Decentralized Governance

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A long‐standing topic of concern in the literature on governmental auditing is whether the aims of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) or other central audit institutions should include detecting fraudulent use of public money. The balance of opinion has been against this proposition, largely for reasons of infeasibility.
Michael Barzelay, Sérgio N. Seabra
wiley   +1 more source

Unprincipled Principals in the Accountability Chain: Autonomy and Political Control Within Tax Administration in a Developing Country Context

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT SDG 16 emphasizes the need for accountable institutions, often based on the assumption that public officials are accountable to politicians, who in turn are accountable to citizens. However, in many developing countries, neopatrimonial governance can weaken this accountability chain, as politicians themselves may act as “unprincipled ...
Edidiong Bassey, Emer Mulligan
wiley   +1 more source

Psychosocial Harm as an Inequality Regime at Work: Intersectional Accounts From Portugal

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines psychosocial harm at work as a sociological problem of inequality rather than only an issue of individual stress. Drawing on Acker's concept of inequality regimes together with minority stress and intersectionality, and based on 60 in‐depth interviews with workers in Portugal, it analyses how overload, insecurity, work ...
Iara Teixeira, Felipe Alckmin‐Carvalho, Guilherme Welter Wendt, Jóni Ledo, Henrique Pereira   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incidental Detection of Acute Leukemia During Genetic Evaluation of Neurodevelopmental Disorder in a Pediatric Clinic: A Case Report. [PDF]

Case Rep Pediatr
Jones SG.
europepmc   +1 more source

Multidimensional Militarisation, Evidence From Mexico's War on Drugs

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents different dimensions of militarisation observed in Mexico since the start of the war on drugs. It argues that militarisation is a multidirectional phenomenon that is characterised by rationales that justify the use of illegal means to address complex issues, promising expediency and efficiency but rarely delivering on it.
Agustin Hernandez Berea
wiley   +1 more source

Metastatic Prostate Cancer Presenting as Fatigue in an Older Adult. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
Tidball AR, Harlow EN.
europepmc   +1 more source

Out of Many, Many: Variation in East Central Europe Financial Governance Despite the EU's Single Market

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Following the global financial crisis, European financial authorities introduced a host of new initiatives intended to advance market integration, improve the quality of bank oversight and enhance both economic stability and prospects for growth.
Dóra Piroska, Rachel A. Epstein
wiley   +1 more source

Spectrum of constitutional chromosomal disorders: A five-year retrospective analysis from a tertiary care center in Karachi. [PDF]

Pak J Med Sci
Aman S, Mujtaba M, Naz M, Mansoor N.
europepmc   +1 more source