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295Bowling, A.: 1997, Measuring Health; a Review of Quality of Life Measurement Scales (2nd ed.) (review)Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 1 (2): 181-182. 1998.
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19Weighting health states and strong evaluationBioethics 9 (3). 1995.The problem of public consultation over the allocation of health care resources is addressed by considering the role that quality of life measures, such as QALYs and the Nottingham Health Profile, could play. Such measures are typically grounded in social surveys, and as such may reflect public preferences for health care priorities. Using Charles Taylor's concepts of “weak” and “strong” evaluation, it is suggested that current quality of life measures are inadequate, insofar as they typically p…Read more
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19Philosophy of HabermasAcumen Publishing. 2005.Critical overview of the work of Jurgen Habermas, discussing his contributions to both philosophy and social theory.
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28The Challenge of Transplants to an Intersubjectively Established Sense of Personal IdentityHealth Care Analysis 17 (2): 123-133. 2009.Face transplants have been performed, in a small number, since 2005. Popular concern over the morality of the face transplant has tended to focus on the role that one’s face plays in one’s sense of self or one’s personal identity. In order to address this concern, the current paper will explore the significance of face transplants in the light of a theory of the self that draws on symbolic interactionism, narrative theory, and accounts of embodiment. The paper will respond to certain presupposit…Read more
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14Sport and Philosophy: from Methodology to EthicsJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 38 (1): 132-134. 2011.No abstract
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27Confidentiality and Personal IntegrityNursing Ethics 1 (2): 86-95. 1994.This paper uses the social theory of Erving Goffman in order to argue that confidentiality should be understood in relation to the mundane social skills by which individuals present and respect specific self-images of themselves and others during social interaction. The breaching of confidentiality is analysed in terms of one person's capacity to embarrass another, and so to expose that person as incompetent. Respecting confidentiality may at once serve to protect the vulnerable from an unjust s…Read more
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42The Philosophy of HabermasMcgill-Queen's University Press. 2005.This comprehensive introduction to the thought of Jurgen Habermas covers the full range of his ideas from his early work on student politics to his recent work on communicative action, ethics and law. Andrew Edgar examines Habermas' key texts in chronological order, revealing the developments, shifts and turns in Habermas' thinking as he refines his basic insights and incorporates new sources and ideas. Some of the themes discussed include Habermas' early reshaping of Marxist theory and practice…Read more
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17The Athletic BodyHealth Care Analysis 26 (3): 269-283. 2018.This paper seeks to explore the attraction and the beauty of the contemporary athletic body. It will be suggested that a body shaped through muscular bulk and definition has come to be seen as aesthetically normative. This body differs from the body of athletes from the early and mid-twentieth century. It will be argued that the contemporary body is not merely the result of advances in sports science, but rather that it is expressive of certain meanings and values. The visual similarity of the c…Read more
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Raymond Geuss, Morality, Culture, and History: Essays in German Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (6): 416-418. 1999.
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34Enterprise association or civil association? The uk national health serviceJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 20 (6): 669-688. 1995.This paper falls into three parts. In the first part I will briefly review the current process of reform that the United Kingdom National Health Service is undergoing. Two fundamental motivations for reform, the desire for increased efficiency and for an increased responsiveness to patients' needs and preferences will be discussed in greater detail. The second part attempts to provide a perspective on the moral debate concerning health care reform by introducing the distinction between ‘civil as…Read more
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10Bowling, A.: 1997, Measuring Health; a Review of Quality of Life Measurement Scales (2nd ed.)Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 1 (2): 181-182. 1998.
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22Hermeneutics and SportSport, Ethics and Philosophy 10 (4): 343-348. 2016.Hermeneutics is the exploration of the process of textual interpretation. As such, it has long been recognised as an important component within the humanities and social sciences, whether one deals with actual texts or with other the products of meaningful human activity, including social actions and utterances. Here, we offer a brief overview of the contribution that hermeneutics might make to the philosophy of sport. If sports and sporting events are seen to be the results of meaningful human …Read more
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