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    Paternalism is justified by temporary incompetence. However‚ the American legal system tends to treat mental patients as if they were either totally competent or totally dysfunctional and thus subject to involuntary treatment. Many observers believe competence

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    Dworkin Gets Mack’d Out An Analysis of Ronald Dworkin and Catherine Mackinnon’s Perspectives on Modern (Obscene) Pornography March 7‚ 2005 Introduction In the coming paragraphs‚ I will prove that Ronald Dworkin’s criticisms and critiques of Catherine Mackinnon’s views towards pornography and society are largely unfounded and immaterial‚ and that government intervention via legislation is required in the protection of women’s interests. I will begin by explaining Catherine Mackinnon’s

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    SCC 6 Available online: CanLII: (16) Trinity Western University v. British Columbia College of Teachers‚ [2001] 1 S.C.R. 772‚ 2001 SCC 31 Available online: CanLII: (17) Dworkin‚ Ronald. 1982. “Law as Interpretation”. Critical Inquiry‚ Volume 9‚ Number 1‚ The Politics of Interpretation (September 1982)‚ pages 179-200. (18) Dworkin‚ Ronald. 1985. “Law ’s Ambitions for Itself”. Virginia Law Review‚ Volume 71‚ Number 2 (March 1985)‚ pages 173-187. AND Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms‚ Part I of

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    Med J. 2013;106(1):27-30. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233976412_Ethical_and_legal_challenges_in_disaster_medicine_are_you_ready Dworkin‚ Gerald‚ "Paternalism"‚ The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2014 Edition)‚ Edward N. Zalta (ed.)‚ URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2014/entries/paternalism/>.

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    Ethical Case Study Week #2 Selina Meehleib American Public University Masters of Public Health Dr. Barbara Kreling PBHE 532: Ethical Issues in Public Health September 22‚ 2016   Abstract Case Study Week #2 Case Study Week #2 describes a scenario of Mary‚ a young nurse‚ who has recently accepted employment with Dr. H.‚ a fertility specialist. In this Case Study Mary experiences a number of ethical challenges. In obtaining this position‚ Mary relocated her life and career to be near her ailing mother

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    Downloaded from jme.bmj.com on October 15‚ 2014 - Published by group.bmj.com Journal of medical ethics‚ 1986‚ 12‚ 123-126‚ 135 Ethical dilemmas in nursing Jenifer Wilson-Barnett Kings College‚ London Author’s abstract Nurses are increasingly realising that they can offer relevant information and participate in decision-making involving ethical issues. However‚ inter-projessional communications are frequently inadequate‚ and do not permit exchange of opinions. The consequences are often frustrating

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    reflects that different cultures have different management styles. They have regional characteristics‚ which can influence business operations directly. There are three common management styles: Paternalism style‚ Laissez-faire style and Democratic style. According to Dworkin‚ Gerald (2002)‚ paternalism is the interference of a country or a person to another organization or an individual. In business aspect‚ it means an individual or an organization can interference a whole company and subsidiary

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    utilitarianism. This way of thinking was further bolstered by the writings of Austin‚ Hart and later Joseph Raz. Yet it would be safe to say that this debate took centre stage as a result of the Hart-Dworkin debate. After Hart’s response to Austin’s theory of legal positivism‚ it was consequently fiercely rebutted by Dworkin and Hart replied in a post script of a second addition of his book ‘The Concept of Law’. Two theories of law and the concept of its ‘moral obligations’ were at loggerheads and became a big

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    DEVLIN: 1. Criminal law is not (just) for the protection of individuals but also for the protection of society  Moderate / Disintegration Thesis: 1 The state has power to legislate morality in order to protect itself against behaviors that may disintegrate society and its institutions  Society “means a community of ideas; without shared ideas on politics‚ morals‚ and ethics no society can exist” (Devlin‚ 10).  Devlin appealed to the idea of society’s "moral fabric." He argued that the

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    Physician-Assisted Suicide The question about physician-assisted suicide in many societies around the world remains difficult‚ except some European countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands‚ and some states in USA - Oregon‚ Washington and Montana where this former restriction was legalized. Nowadays‚ other countries and the rest of states in the U.S. facing dilemma rather to leave PAS illegal‚ or change existing law into legal practice. In “Introduction” of the book Ethical Issues in Modern

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