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20Vygotsky's philosophy: Constructivism and its criticisms examinedInternational Education Journal: Comparative Perspective 6 (3). 2005.© 2005 Shannon Research Press.
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17Vaccine Mandates and Cultural SafetyJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 20 (4): 719-730. 2023.The issues and problems of mandatory vaccination policy and roll out in First Nations communities are unique and do not concern the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. These issues are also independent of more specific arguments of mandatory vaccination of healthcare workers as a condition of employment. As important as these issues are, they do not consider the complex politics of ongoing settler colonialism and First Nations community relations. In this paper, we also set aside the very real…Read more
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12Can research ethics codes be a conduit for justice? An examination of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander guidelines in AustraliaSage Publications Ltd: Research Ethics 18 (1): 51-63. 2021.Research Ethics, Volume 18, Issue 1, Page 51-63, January 2022. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia, have historically experienced research as another means of colonialization and oppression. Although there are existing frameworks, guidelines and policies in place that respond to this history, the risk of exploitation and oppression arising from research still raises challenging ethical questions. Since the 1990s the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia…Read more
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19Health ethics and Indigenous ethnocideBioethics 33 (7): 827-834. 2019.In colonial societies such as Canada the implications of colonialism and ethnocide (or cultural genocide) for ethical decision‐making are ill‐understood yet have profound implications in health ethics and other spheres. They combine to shape racism in health care in ways, sometimes obvious, more often subtle, that are inadequately understood and often wholly unnoticed. Along with overt experiences of interpersonal racism, Indigenous people with health care needs are confronted by systemic racism…Read more
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Beyond Toleration: Facing the OtherIn Cathy Benedict, Patrick K. Schmidt, Gary Spruce & Paul Woodford (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education, Oxford University Press Usa. pp. 238-252. 2015.This article offers an analysis of the various articles in the section of the book on the impacts of oppression in music education. It explores how racism, gender oppression, heteronormativity, ableism and poverty interact and mutually reinforce each other to systematically exclude populations from access to music.
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74An empirical critique of interrogational tortureJournal of Social Philosophy 43 (4): 457-470. 2012.The paper describes the consequences of the failure of defences of torture to engage with interdisciplinary empirical literature on torture. It argues that the validity of existing defences of torture can only be asserted in the absence of consideration of the nature of torture and its actual impacts.
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12The cultural erosion of Indigenous people in health careCanadian Medical Association Journal 2 (189). 2017.The paper describes the unique health ethics challenges of working with Indigenous peoples. It explores the distorting impacts of colonial law and economic policy on clinical ethics decision making and makes some practical recommendations for overcoming or subverting them.
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21The Absolute Violation: Why torture must be prohibited.McGill-Queen's University Press. 2008.The book is a multi-disciplinary philosophical exploration of the nature and ethics of torture. it offers a defence of the unconditional prohibition of torture.
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2David Clark, Empirical Realism: Meaning and the Generative. Foundation of Morality Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (6): 393-395. 2004.
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12The Limits of TranscendencePhaenEx 2 (1): 67-86. 2007.A central ethical and political worry in Heidegger and Nietzsche is the philosophical irrelevance of everyday moral, epistemological and political norms, as well as of individual suffering and evil. In consequence they offer little to help us think about ethical experience. I argue that Albert Camus' analysis of moral and epistemic limits offers a more fruitful alternative. But this requires us to take ordinary experience as central to philosophical analysis, rather than simply viewing it as a c…Read more
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4Yuval Ginbar, Why Not Torture Terrorists? Moral, Practical and Legal Aspects of the'Ticking Bomb'Justification for TorturePhilosophy in Review 29 (4): 251-253. 2009.
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Torture and Narrative: An Absolute Violation of the SelfIn Eleanor Milligan & Emma Woodley (eds.), Confessions: Confounding Narrative and Ethics, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 143. 2010.
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24Indecent Medicine: In Defense of the Absolute Prohibition against Physician Participation in TortureAmerican Journal of Bioethics 6 (3). 2006.In a recent article, Gross argues that physicians in decent societies have a civic duty to aid in the torturing of suspected terrorists during emergency conditions. The argument presupposes a communitarian society in which considerations of common good override questions of individual rights, but it is also utilitarian. In the event that there is a ticking bomb and no other alternative available for defusing it, torture must be used, and physicians must play their part. In an earlier article, Jo…Read more
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