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From:Journal of Pakistan Medical Association (Vol. 61, Issue 10)Byline: Haider A. Naqvi and Ather Hussain Education which does not inculcate values has great perils. Is it beneficial to carry the burden of formal education and be un-amenable to reason or logic? A surgeon without...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 49, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOne's own desires as to how others should treat one should serve, by analogy, as a guide for how one should treat others. This idea has played a key role in the Christian morality of the West for some two thousand...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 108, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe greatest appeal of genetic research is that it offers hope of a sort of magic bullet -- in fact, a magic machine gun -- for all the most ghastly afflictions facing our planet. Disease and crop failure might someday...
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From:Skeptic (Altadena, CA) (Vol. 17, Issue 3)IMAGINE THE FOLLOWING SCENARIO: YOU ARE standing next to a fork in a railroad line where there is a switch. There are five workers on the one track and one worker on the other track. A trolley car is hurtling down the...
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From:Independent Review (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOn my way to an evening class, my eye caught an interesting poster on the hall bulletin board. In its most recent efforts to rehabilitate my retrograde moral sensibility, Fordham University advertised that it would now...
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From:International Journal of Health Policy and Management (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedShiftman rightly raises questions about who exercises power in global health, suggesting power is a complex concept, and the way it is exercised is often opaque. Power that is not based on financial strength but on...
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 210)Last September, an Ontario judge, Susan Himel, overturned Canadian laws banning brothels, the solicitation of clients, and the managing of sex workers (a.k.a. pimping). It seems such restrictions violate prostitutes'...
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From:Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBLAME is GOVERNED by a range of norms. Most centrally, blame is subject to a norm of correctness or fittingness. Understood as a retrospective response that represents its target as being blameworthy for (typically) an...
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From:Africa (Vol. 91, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores the movement of children between households in Zambia as a site of 'moral navigation'. Moral navigation extends Henrik Vigh's concept of social navigation from contexts of conflict and migration to...
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From:Anthropological Quarterly (Vol. 93, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article argues that global panic over sex trafficking animates a mode of global governmentality that fuses together otherwise contradictory registers of care and punishment in the disciplining of women who sell sex....
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 209)Vulgarity, writes Theodore Dalrymple in a dyspeptic article in The Spectator, "has its place as a counterweight to pretension." But beyond that, he thinks, there's not much to be said for it. He explains his...
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From:The Advocate (Vol. 34, Issue 6)People's moral responses to similar situations change as they age, according to a new study that combines brain scanning, eye-tracking, and behavioral measures to understand how the brain responds to morally laden...
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 184, Issue 18) Peer-ReviewedSarah was depressed. After being fired for a minor indiscretion, she was unable to find work. Sarah confided in her doctor, BA (one of the authors), who encouraged her to explain early in her next interview what had...
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From:Journal of the History of Sexuality (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEFFORTS TO ENFORCE THE ANCIENT regulations concerning clerical celibacy arose in various centers of European religious life around 1000 and received further impetus from the reformed papacy during the second half of the...
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From:Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMOST ACADEMIC DISCUSSION about pornography has focused on the term in its, shall we say, classical use: pornography of a sexual nature. But right under the nose of the academic discussion, a secondary usage has evolved....
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From:MedSurg Nursing (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWe can all agree this past year has been unprecedented in many regards, but the commonality was the global pandemic. Businesses closing, social distancing, lack of family gatherings, loss of jobs: these were all...
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From:Journal of the History of Sexuality (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIN MAY 1944 A GERMAN MILITARY TRIBUNAL (Feldgericht) accused ten British prisoners of war (POWs) of having performed homosexual acts with a sixteen-year-old German boy at the Heydebreck chemical factory, not far from...
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From:Radical Teacher (Issue 85) Peer-ReviewedIn "America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout," Chris Hedges puts the decreased study of the humanities at the center of what he calls our "age of moral nihilism": "We have trashed our universities, turning them into...
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From:The Philosophical Review (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedJust when philosophers of science thought they had buried Freud for the last time, he has quietly reappeared in the writings of moral philosophers. Two analytic ethicists, Samuel Scheffler and John Deigh, have...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 108, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedYou are treating some friends to an elaborate meal in an expensive restaurant. This should, of course, be a pleasant and well-deserved taste of indulgence. But instead the food proves a disappointment, while the service...