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    Frankensteins and Cyborgs: Visions of the Global Future in an Age of Technology
    Studies in Christian Ethics 16 (1): 29-43. 2003.
    This paper draws attention to the role of representation in the depiction of scientific and technological innovation as a means of understanding the narratives that circulate concerning the shape of things to come. It considers how metaphors play an important part in the conduct of scientific explanation, and how they do more than describe the world in helping also to shape expectations, normalise particular choices, establish priorities and create needs. In surveying the range of metaphorical r…Read more
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    The practices of happiness: political economy, religion and wellbeing (edited book)
    with John R. Atherton and Ian Steedman
    Routledge. 2011.
    These essays explore the religious dimensions to a number of key features of well-being, including marriage, crime and rehabilitation, work, inequality, mental ...
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    Aesthetic Leadership in Chinese Business: A Philosophical Perspective (review)
    with Haina Zhang, Malcolm H. Cone, and André M. Everett
    Journal of Business Ethics 101 (3): 475-491. 2011.
    Confucian ethics play a pivotal role in guiding Chinese thinking and behaviour. Aesthetic leadership is emerging as a promising paradigm in leadership studies. This study investigates the practice of aesthetic leadership in Chinese organizations on the basis of Chinese philosophical foundations. We adopt a process perspective to access the aesthetic constellation of meanings present in the Chinese understanding of leadership, linking normative Confucian values to a pragmatic value rational world…Read more
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    'Geraniums and Delphiniums ': Trauma, Ethics, and Medical Communications
    Journal of Medical Humanities 38 (2): 151-172. 2017.
    More official complaints about medical treatment in the UK relate to poor communications than to wrong diagnoses. This article, in considering the importance of communications training for clinicians, is structured into three sections. From use of a story that introduces the idea of miscommunication and trauma in the first section, the article moves, in the second, to a theorisation of trauma as a concept, addressing issues of intersubjectivity, the relationship between embodied and psychologica…Read more
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    On becoming a practical theologian: Past, present and future tenses
    HTS Theological Studies 73 (4): 1-9. 2017.
    This article takes an autobiographical approach to the development of practical theology as a discipline over the past 30 years, with particular attention to my own context of the United Kingdom. The unfolding of my own intellectual story in relation to key issues within the wider academic discourse provides an opportunity to reflect on some of the predominant themes and trends: past, present and future. Changing nomenclature, from 'pastoral studies' to 'practical theology', indicates how the di…Read more
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    Developmental aspects of cortical excitability and inhibition in depressed and healthy youth: an exploratory study
    with Paul E. Croarkin, Paul A. Nakonezny, Charles P. Lewis, Michael J. Zaccariello, John E. Huxsahl, Mustafa M. Husain, Betsy D. Kennard, and Zafiris J. Daskalakis
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8. 2014.
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    Grace Jantzen: Redeeming the Present (edited book)
    Ashgate. 2009.
    Chapter Redeeming the Present Elaine Graham What does it mean to do feminist moral philosophy with notions of utopia and transformation as points of..
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    Within the human and social sciences, the analysis of gender is treated as an essential aspect of human behaviour. By contrast, within the church there has been little sustained or disciplined attention to the nature and underlying significance of gender, theological discourse and church policy all too often displaying their ignorance and unexamined assumptions about the crucial issues involved. Elaine Graham attempts a more detailed and critical inquiry into how an analysis of gender can affect…Read more
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    Theology in the city: ten years after Faith in the city
    Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 78 (1): 173-192. 1996.
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    This special volume of Studies in Christian Ethics constitutes the most significant continuation to date of Christian social ethics in the tradition of Ronald Preston. It brings together leading scholars and new voices in the field from around the world, covering a broad range of contemporary issues, including globalisation, poverty, feminism, civil society, economics and religious pluralism.
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    Postmodernism and the Social Sciences
    with Joe Doherty and Mo Malek
    Palgrave-Macmillan. 1992.
    The social sciences are still predominantly modernist disciplines and, as such, products of the Enlightenment. Recent challenges to Enlightenment thinking thus carry with them the potential or threat to transform the social sciences radically. Postmodernism and the Social Sciences examines the nature and potential of this postmodernist challenge in each of the major social sciences. Starting with the practices of particular disciplines and proceeding to matters of shared concern, the essays prov…Read more
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    This special volume of Studies in Christian Ethics constitutes the most significant continuation to date of Christian social ethics in the tradition of Ronald Preston. It brings together leading scholars and new voices in the field from around the world, covering a broad range of contemporary issues, including globalisation, poverty, feminism, civil society, economics and religious pluralism.