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    A student guide to reconciling human rights with cultural difference, using political philosophy and real-life case studiesHow can universal human rights be reconciled with respect for wide cultural differences? This textbook introduces the core issues for students and addresses them through an interdisciplinary analysis of key case studies. Throughout the book, an alternative philosophical framework is offered as a model through which universalism and difference can be reconciled into a single …Read more
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    The challenge of cultural diversity: the limited value of the right of exit
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 21 (1): 87-108. 2018.
    This article traces recent trends in British politics, liberal political theory and human rights law in order to demonstrate why the right of exit – made famous in the political theory of multiculturalism by Chandran Kukathas – may be able to mediate tensions between them. I argue that the right of exit is an insufficient test for consent because some cultures may render some members incapable of effectively exercising their autonomy. I use empirical evidence drawn from legal cases and social sc…Read more
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    Yvonne Sherratt, Adorno's Positive Dialectic (review)
    Philosophy in Review 23 (4): 286-288. 2003.
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    Brian Orend, Human Rights: Concept and Context (review)
    Philosophy in Review 23 133-135. 2003.
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    Lambert Zuidervaart: Social philosophy after Adorno (review)
    Human Studies 33 (1): 109-115. 2010.
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    Theodor Adorno
    Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2003.
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    This article critically re-examines the application of the principle of patient autonomy within bioethics. In complex societies such as those found in North America and Europe health care professionals are increasingly confronted by patients from diverse ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds. This affects the relationship between clinicians and patients to the extent that patients' deliberations upon the proposed courses of treatment can, in various ways and to varying extents, be influenc…Read more
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    Making Sense of Dying and Death (edited book)
    Rodopi. 2004.
    Health, illness and disease are topics well-suited to interdisciplinary inquiry. This book brings together scholars from around the world who share an interest in and a commitment to bridging the traditional boundaries of inquiry. We hope that this book begins new conversations that will situate health in broader socio-cultural contexts and establish connections between health, illness and disease and other socio-political issues. This book is the outcome of the first global conference on Making…Read more
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    Paradoxical bedfellows: Nihilism and human rights (review)
    Human Rights Review 6 (3): 80-101. 2005.
    This article identifies and considers the existence of a manifest, though often overlooked, paradox contained within the doctrine of human rights. The principal justifications for human rights are based upon the identification of variously conceived human characteristics, or attributes of human agency. Nevertheless, human rights have all too often been required to protect some human beings from being seriously harmed by other human beings. The justification for human rights envisages a single, u…Read more
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    Human rights
    Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2003.