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There is significant tension between the value of the individual and society within clinical research. While various deontological theories have argued for the necessity of informed consent, these theories have been repudiated by consequentialism.
Dallas Ducar
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Is saving lives your task or God’s? Religiosity, belief in god, and moral judgment [PDF]
Should a Catholic hospital abort a life-threatening pregnancy or let a pregnant woman die? Should a religious employer allow his employees access to contraceptives or break with healthcare legislation?
Netta Barak-Corren, Max H. Bazerman
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Problematic issues of qualifying criminal omissions [PDF]
The criminal code of Georgia (7th article) defines the crime. According to this article main element of a crime is an action. Action is also the first and the most important element of actus reus in Georgian criminal law.
Tatia Dolidze
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Representations of Failure in Things by Georges Perec [PDF]
This article examines representations of failure in Georges Perec’s Les choses, focusing on the social and psychological vulnerability of characters in a contemporary society centered on matter and possession.
Adjé Justin Aka
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One of the three most important types of actions in the Czech administrative judiciary is the action for protection against the inaction of an administrative body.
Kateřina Frumarová
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Between climates of fear and blind optimism: the affective role of emotions for climate (in)action [PDF]
Emotions affect how humans relate to others and define their place in the world. They thus shape responses to socio-ecological problems like climate change.
L. M. Schlegel
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Action orientation, consistency and feelings of regret [PDF]
Previous research has demonstrated that consistency between people's behavior and their dispositions has predictive validity for judgments of regret. Research has also shown that differences in the personality variable of action orientation can influence
Todd McElroy, Keith Dowd
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WITHDRAWING TREATMENT AND KILLING: THE WAYS TO DISTINGUISH
One of the key problems facing bioethics concerns those cases where, due to the limited human and technical resources of medicine, patients are in fact doomed to die.
Kateryna S. Rassudina
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Cosmopolitan Utilitarianism and the Problem of Local Inaction in a Globalized World
This article explores the problem of the public acceptability of political inaction as an extreme consequence of cosmopolitan utilitarianism. The case of political inaction as the utility-maximizing public policy option emerges more clearly in the ...
Fausto Corvino
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Ponaglenie jako środek ochrony sytuacji prawnej jednostki
So far, the parties to administrative proceedings, in order to counteract the slowness of the body conducting the proceedings, have been able to file a complaint about not handling the case on time or on the lengthy conducting of the proceedings ...
Justyna Mielczarek-Mikołajów
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