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We ought to discuss the social construction of cadavers: Here's why and how

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Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Fatima Ehsan, Susan Lamb
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Performance Auditing and Adjudicating Political Disputes

Financial Accountability & Management, 2015
AbstractPerformance audits have provided governments with new opportunities to take advantage of the public sector auditor's moral legitimacy as an agent of accountability who is independent of government. With particular reference to a recent performance audit by the Australian Auditor‐General which the Prime Minister called for after he was accused ...
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Premise Disputes and Political Ideology

British Journal of Political Science, 2020
AbstractA substantial body of scholarship highlights the role of core values as elements of liberalism–conservatism. However, researchers have yet to fully appreciate the contribution of premises, or abstractdescriptivebeliefs. This disjuncture has occurred despite the fact that for centuries, philosophers have used premises about human nature and ...
David C. Barker, Morgan Marietta
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The Politics of Border Disputes: On the Arabian Peninsula

International Journal, 1999
TERRITORIAL BORDERS ON THE Arabian Peninsula have long been the source of bitter disagreements. The peninsular states - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen - have periodically challenged their respective frontiers.
Gwenn Okruhlik, Patrick J. Conge
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Politics may complicate Botswana diamond dispute

Emerald Expert Briefings, 2023
Significance Protracted negotiations over a new deal have been complicated by political tensions between President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his predecessor Ian Khama. Botswana produces almost one-quarter of the world’s diamonds and its importance to the sector has been magnified as buyers shun diamonds from Russia, the world’
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Doctors, Politics and Pay Disputes: ‘pressure Group Politics’ Revisited

British Journal of Political Science, 1972
Studies of medical politics usually emphasize one of the following types of inquiries: (a) analyzing the internal politics of medical organizations, as with Oliver Garceau's classic study of the American Medical Association; (b) describing and explaining the roles individual physicians play in the political life of the community as voters, officials ...
Theodore R. Marmor, David Thomas
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Disputes About Ethics and Politics

2016
When debating moral questions, it is advisable to consider the extent to which each view rests on sympathizing with the suffering of others versus the extent to which its adoption rests on the hope that acting on it will increase human welfare. Such understanding can help clarify some rather abstract notions that might otherwise disrupt such debates.
Joseph Agassi, Abraham Meidan
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Methodological Disputes in Comparative Politics

Comparative Politics, 2009
Within comparative politics there is a long-standing tension between general theory and its application to diverse areas of the globe. Yet one can argue that this has been a productive tension. Good work that is grounded in a firm understanding of history and place often contributes to the expansion of the theoretical horizons of the discipline as a ...
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