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Humane Dignity [PDF]

, 2011
The ethics of care has developed as a movement of allied thinkers, in different continents, who have a shared concern and who reflect on similar topics.
Walker, Margaret Urban
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The Dignity of Human Life: Sketching Out an 'Equal Worth' Approach [PDF]

, 2020
The term “value of life” can refer to life’s intrinsic dignity: something nonincremental and time-unaffected in contrast to the fluctuating, incremental “value” of our lives, as they are longer or shorter and more or less flourishing.
Watt, Helen
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Understanding the Housing and Support Experience of People With Complex Disability in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis of Submissions to the Disability Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz, Fiona Carey, Libby Witts, Jessie Spence, Peter Mulherin, Megan Topping, Di Winkler, Jacinta Douglas   +7 more
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Dignity and the Phenomenology of Recognition-Respect [PDF]

, 2017
What is dignity? My starting point is that dignity is one of those philosophical primitives that admit of no informative analysis. Nonetheless, I suggest, dignity might yield to indirect illumination when we consider the kind of experience we have (or ...
Kriegel, Uriah
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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

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

Australian 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, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minor change in initial PEEP setting decreases rates of ventilator-associated events in mechanically ventilated trauma patients

Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2020
Background Surveillance of ventilator-associated events (VAEs) as defined by the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) is performed at many US trauma centers and considered a measure of healthcare quality. The surveillance algorithm relies in part on
Jordan A Weinberg, Kristina M Chapple, James N Bogert, Hahn Soe-Lin, Ethan Ferrel, Liviu Gabriel Calugaru, Jennifer Maxwell, Jessica A Johnson, Andrew W Mezher   +8 more
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Privacy and Dignity in Continence Care for Older People. Report on Phase 1. [PDF]

, 2008
In recent years dignity in care has become a priority and the focus of a number of government reports and policy initiatives. (DH 2003, 2007), (SCIE 2006).
Alaszewski, Helen P., Billings, Jenny R.
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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian 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

Feasibility of an interpreter-mediated neuropsychological test battery for trauma-affected refugees

European Journal of Psychotraumatology
Background: Cognitive impairment in trauma-affected refugees is often unassessed due to the absence of suitable cross-cultural neuropsychological measures, the high prevalence of psychiatric symptoms, and the need for interpreter mediation.
Søren Kit Bothe, T. Rune Nielsen, Linda Nordin, Sabina Palic, Marie Høgh Thøgersen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source