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585The Lived Experience of Doubling: Simone de Beauvoir's Phenomenology of Old AgeIn Wendy O'Brien & Lester Embree (eds.), The Existential Phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir, Springer Verlag. pp. 127-147. 2001.This essay demonstrates that Beauvoir's La Vieillesse is a phenomenological study of old age indebted to Husserl's phenomenology of the body. Beauvoir's depiction of the doubling in the lived experience of the elderly--a division between outsiders' awareness of the elderly's decline and the elderly's own inner understanding of old age--serves as a specific illustration of Beauvoir's particular method of description and analysis.
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Risky Business: When Patient Preferences Seem IrrationalCatheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions 82. 2013.Interventional cardiologists are commonly faced with patients who prefer percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) rather than coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). Many prefer PCI even when CABG is recommended. Doctors may wonder whether (as the cardiac surgeons suspect) they consciously or unconsciously influence patients to choose PCI. We consider reasons why patient preferences in this context are not irrational.
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898Relational EthicsIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. pp. 1-10. 2013.An overview of relational approaches to ethics, which contrast with individualist and holist ones, particularly as they feature in the Confucian, African, and feminist/care traditions.
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Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Feminist Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
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