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Do deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights?
The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.Abstract Unauthorised deepfakes are deeply problematic, from the spreading of misinformation to non‐consensual pornographic content. This paper asks whether deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights. To address this question, it examines the harms that deepfakes can cause through disinformation, demeaning content ...
Hayleigh Bosher
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Ambiguous Invitations: non-maleficence, uncertainty and public health policy
Consider two paradigm examples of public health programmes: routine screening for early stage cancer, and vaccination against infectious diseases. Both interventions are often controversial. Typically, these controversies centre around questions of evidence: many within the medical community worry that the evidence basis for the effectiveness of ...
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Da Vinci's mischief: xylem conduits in the stems of woody plants do not furcate
New Phytologist, EarlyView.Summary The hydraulic architecture of plants is often modeled as a ‘furcating’ network, in which xylem conduits proliferate in number toward the stem apex, analogous to animal circulatory systems. Yet whether furcation actually occurs within woody stems remains untested, despite major implications for carbon costs and hydraulic efficiency.
Gilberto Alemán‐Sancheschúlz +4 more
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Disparities in the incidence, management, and outcomes of ectopic pregnancy have been documented among marginalised patients; however, there are few data on ectopic pregnancy in women with disabilities. Objective To compare the incidence and outcomes of surgically managed ectopic pregnancy in women with and without disability ...
Natalie V. Scime +3 more
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Ethics of overtreatment and undertreatment in older adults with cancer
BMC Medical EthicsBackground Over-/undertreatment are pervasive in older adults with cancer, and challenges arise in applying the principles of bioethics: beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, and patient autonomy.
Clark DuMontier +12 more
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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Reproductive HealthBackground Caesarean section on maternal request (CSMR) is a complex ethical issue. Sweden is an intriguing case for studying CSMR due to its restrictive policy that curtail women autonomous choice regarding the mode of birth, despite overall policy ...
Mio Fredriksson, Magdalena Mattebo
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