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The rights of the individual

Nursing Standard, 1990
It is a rare occasion indeed that I come across an article that disturbs me to the extent that I put pen to paper in protest. Sadly, in this instance, the venomous, vitriolic diatribe by Betty Roll (Letters, Nursing Standard March 14-20) has compelled me to do so. It really has been quite a considerable time since I have come across anything so extreme,
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Individual rights

2006
Abstract Chapter 2 has taught us that a set of rather mild-looking conditions imposed on an Arrovian social welfare function creates the dictatorship of one person. Whenever this individual prefers any x over any y from the set of alternatives X , society prefers x over y by necessity, and this holds for all pairs of alternatives from X ...
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Group Rights and Individual Rights in Japan

Asian Survey, 1981
IN JAPAN, as in other functioning democracies, law and society combine to promote, protect, and restrict individual rights. With the striking degree of group orientation in Japan, many strengths and weaknesses in the status of individual rights are manifested in contexts defined by a group's sense of its own rights as a collectivity.
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Rights and Individual Well-Being

Ratio Juris, 1992
AbstractThis article challenges the view permeating much philosophical thought that the primacy of individual rights represents the individual's standpoint against the public good or against the requirements of others generally. The author explicates the underlying features of our common culture contending that the conflict between individual and ...
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Individuals, communities and human rights

Review of International Studies, 2000
The two global norms that are most widely recognized in our world are human rights and the principle of national self-determination. Sometimes these norms are presented as complementary, sometimes as rivals. Of the two, national self-determination seems to have secured more widespread acceptance.
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Collective Rights and Individual Autonomy

Ethics, 2007
In discussing the issue of collective rights for aboriginal peoples, national minorities, and other subcultures within modern nation-states, many writers have set as their task the problem of reconciling these rights with a proper respect for individual autonomy. Will Kymlicka, for example, describes his own work on the subject as an effort to develop “
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Of the rights of persons Of the absolute rights of individuals

1973
The objects of the laws of England are so very numerous and extensive, that, in order to consider them with any tolerable ease and perspicuity, it will be necessary to distribute them methodically, under proper and distinct heads; avoiding as much as possible divisions too large and comprehensive on the one hand, and too trifling and minute on the ...
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7 Rights of Individuation: The Need for Greater Protection of Individual Rights in Big Data

2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, 2014
Big Data have created a number of challenges in relation to the management of their complexity and variability, mainly by their aggregation and synthesis. This paper focuses on the different aspects of individuality that are affected by the use of Big Data.
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The Human Rights Act 1998 and the Individual's Right to Treatment

Medical Law International, 2000
The right to demand treatment—even when life-saving—is not recognised by English common law. The courts have consistently stated that they do not have the jurisdiction to order a doctor to perform a particular treatment. This article considers whether the impending Human Rights Act 1998 can be interpreted so as to allow this right.
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Democracy, Individual Rights and the Regulation of Science

Science and Engineering Ethics, 2009
Whether the US Constitution guarantees a right to conduct scientific research is a question that has never been squarely addressed by the United States Supreme Court. Similarly, the extent to which the First Amendment protects the right to communicate the results of scientific research is an issue about which there is scant judicial authority.
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