Ethical Issues Working with Vulnerable Populations

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-101
Author(s):  
Isabel Araiza
Keyword(s):  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Scholarship ◽  
Institutional Expectations ◽  
Principles Of Justice ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
The Way

To engage ethically with vulnerable populations requires an investment of time and energy. Public scholars must examine critically what they think they know about the population with which they wish to work; they must also interrogate their relationship with the members of the community and remain committed to working collaboratively with all those involved. They must ensure that their project upholds the principles of justice, beneficence, and respect for the individual. They should draft an ethical protocol that outlines the way the group will address issues that emerge. They should also develop a process that can be used when unanticipated issues arise. Public scholars must be aware of the structural forces that challenge their ability to engage ethically with vulnerable populations. Those forces include institutional expectations/demands that scholars produce products that positively affect the image of the institution, the ways in which agencies and funders can exert influence on the direction of a project, and how broader cultural scripts may affect the way broader audiences evaluate the public scholarship project.

Current Challenges in Empowering Clinicians to Utilize Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 1623-1636
Author(s):  
Jean M. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
The Public ◽  
Improve Health Status ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Individual

This chapter is designed to outline the current situation and challenges to successful deployment of technologies to support clinical activities. It utilises action research and cooperative enquiry within the community of practice. It is grounded in UK experiences but will have international resonance in many key areas. Increasingly members of the public are joining the clinical professions in using health data to maintain and improve health status of the individual; however this chapter predominantly focuses on catalysts and inhibitors to professional use. The second objective of this chapter is to consider the opportunities presented by emerging technologies, and restrictions to effective deployment such as cultural reluctance, ethical issues and privacy concerns. It is hoped that highlighting the key issues for consideration will reassure clinicians that they are faced with similar informatics challenges to all other in the health domain and that, for all, the benefits of persisting with utilising technology in support of their clinical work are considerable.

Current Challenges in Empowering Clinicians to Utilize Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 507-520
Author(s):  
Jean M. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
The Public ◽  
Improve Health Status ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Individual

This chapter is designed to outline the current situation and challenges to successful deployment of technologies to support clinical activities. It utilises action research and cooperative enquiry within the community of practice. It is grounded in UK experiences but will have international resonance in many key areas. Increasingly members of the public are joining the clinical professions in using health data to maintain and improve health status of the individual; however this chapter predominantly focuses on catalysts and inhibitors to professional use. The second objective of this chapter is to consider the opportunities presented by emerging technologies, and restrictions to effective deployment such as cultural reluctance, ethical issues and privacy concerns. It is hoped that highlighting the key issues for consideration will reassure clinicians that they are faced with similar informatics challenges to all other in the health domain and that, for all, the benefits of persisting with utilising technology in support of their clinical work are considerable.

scholarly journals The Institutionalisation of the Public Intellectual

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Hilary Yerbury ◽  
Nina Burridge
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

As the way academics work becomes increasingly specified and regulated, the role of the public intellectual, as championed by Burawoy and exemplified by Jakubowicz, is changing. Engagement with the professions and industry is being proposed as a requirement for a research-active academic. Prescriptions for the way this might happen have the potential to remove the sense of responsibility inherent in Burawoy’s notion of the public intellectual and the suggested use of social media to promote new knowledge potentially dilutes the notion of ‘publics’ which is fundamental to the notion of the public intellectual, substituting the individual for the collective. This in turn has an impact on the kind of informed debate that can influence policy development. This paper explores the narratives of new academics as they seek to answer the questions Giddens asserted were fundamental to the creation of identity in late modernity – What to do? How to act? Who to be? It positions these narratives of identify in a broader discourse of the role of the academic in the creation of new knowledge, perceptions of the role of the university in contemporary Australian culture and the constraints of work planning and performance management.

Moral Collapse in a Warming World

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Warming World ◽  
Taking Action ◽  
The Way

In his definitive book A Perfect Moral Storm, ethicist Stephen Gardiner argues that the way forward in a climate-changed world is so difficult in part because we “do not yet have a good understanding of many of the ethical issues at stake in global-warming policy.” We remain confused about such vital questions as who should take responsibility for the current condition, how to preserve equity between generations, and how best to think about our responsibility toward nonhuman animals. The resistance of governments to taking action, attempts by various players to throw sand in the eyes of the public, and specious arguments used to justify an unwillingness to do what is necessary all add to our moral bafflement.

scholarly journals Kodeks etyczny jako narzędzie zarządzania relacjami z pracownikami

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 266-273
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Stanek
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethical Behaviors ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
The Way

The negative image of business in the public opinion has drawn its attention, firstly in USA,and after that in Europe, to the ethical issues in business activity.The ethical behaviors of the companies have mostly the external importance – they are thetools to build positive image of the company and trustworthy among its stakeholders: shareholders, customers, public opinion; and therefore they contribute to the economic growth of thecompany.Nevertheless, the ethical issues are important also inside the company, in the relations withthe employees. Codes of conducts are one of the instruments that besides building the positiverelations with the external environment may also strengthen the ties in organization. The way ofenacting the code and the employees’ identification with the values and rules it contains areimportant.The aim of this paper is to answer the questions: May the code of conduct be a tool ofmanaging the relations with employees, and under what conditions may it be a valuable tool, notonly another unimportant document? The first part of the paper focuses on the issue of ethics in business and genesis of this topic.After that, the deliberations focus on codes of conducts and their role in relations with environ-ment. The last part shows the evidences of the efficiency the codes of conducts in managingrelations with employees.Paper is prepared on basis of literature and researches, as well as on the author’s surveys inbig international companies in some Polish cities (Kraków, Wroc³aw, Poznañ, and Warszawa).

Beyond Richard Rorty's Public

1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
Scott Roulier ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Richard Rorty ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Principles Of Justice ◽  
The Individual

Richard Rorty argues that various metaphysicians have attempted to fuse the private and the public. These philosophers and religious thinkers posit rules of justice which apply to both spheres, thereby establishing a moral link between the individual and the community. Rorty claims, however, that these universalist traditions have been discredited and that the pnivate/public connection should be severed. This essay contends that Rorty's strict separation of private and public spheres is flawed, that his "private" actually subverts his "public." The philosophical and religions foundations cannot be detached either theoretically or practically from public principles of justice. Also, the boundaries of Rorty's public square are not neutrally drawn, but betray an anti-liberal hostility to experiences of transcendence.

Hierarchical switching in a multi-dimensional task space is not induced by specific task cues

2001 ◽  
Vol 209 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Kleinsorge ◽  
Herbert Heuer ◽  
Volker Schmidtke
Keyword(s):  
Specific Task ◽  
Task Space ◽  
Basic Pattern ◽  
Task Representation ◽  
Switching Mechanism ◽  
Factorial Combination ◽  
Individual Task ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

Summary. When participants have to shift between four tasks that result from a factorial combination of the task dimensions judgment (numerical vs. spatial) and mapping (compatible vs. incompatible), a characteristic profile of shift costs can be observed that is suggestive of a hierarchical switching mechanism that operates upon a dimensionally ordered task representation, with judgment on the top and the response on the bottom of the task hierarchy ( Kleinsorge & Heuer, 1999 ). This switching mechanism results in unintentional shifts on lower levels of the task hierarchy whenever a shift on a higher level has to be performed, leading to non-shift costs on the lower levels. We investigated whether this profile depends on the way in which the individual task dimensions are cued. When the cues for the task dimensions were exchanged, the basic pattern of shift costs was replicated with only minor modifications. This indicates that the postulated hierarchical switching mechanism operates independently of the specifics of task cueing.

Reverence, Revision and Creaturely Life: Whitehead’s Political Theology of Enjoyment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice Marovich
Keyword(s):  
Political Theology ◽  
Free Society ◽  
Actual Entity ◽  
Symbolic Code ◽  
Strategic Motivation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

‘The art of free society’, A.N. Whitehead declares in his essay on symbolism, is fundamentally dual. It consists of both ‘maintenance of the symbolic code’ and a ‘fearlessness of [its] revision’. This tension, on the surface paradoxical, is what Whitehead believes will prevent social decay, anarchy, or ‘the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows’. Bearing in mind Whitehead’s own thoughts on the nature of symbolism, this chapter argues that the figure of the creature has been underappreciated in his work as a symbol. It endeavors to examine and contextualize the symbolic potency of creatureliness in Whitehead’s work, with particular attention directed toward the way the creature helps him to both maintain and revise an older symbolic code. In Process and Reality, ‘creature’ serves as Whitehead’s alternate name for the ‘individual fact’ or the ‘actual entity’—including (perhaps scandalously, for his more orthodox readers) the figure of God. What was Whitehead’s strategic motivation for deploying this superfluous title for an already-named category? In this chapter, it is suggested that his motivation was primarily poetic (Whitehead held the British romantic tradition in some reverence) and so, in this sense, always and already aware of its rich symbolic potency.

Heritage

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Shaikh ◽  
Stefano Bonino
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Online Video ◽  
The South ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Public ◽  
Video Footage ◽  
Community Heritage ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
The Way

The Colourful Heritage Project (CHP) is the first community heritage focused charitable initiative in Scotland aiming to preserve and to celebrate the contributions of early South Asian and Muslim migrants to Scotland. It has successfully collated a considerable number of oral stories to create an online video archive, providing first-hand accounts of the personal journeys and emotions of the arrival of the earliest generation of these migrants in Scotland and highlighting the inspiring lessons that can be learnt from them. The CHP’s aims are first to capture these stories, second to celebrate the community’s achievements, and third to inspire present and future South Asian, Muslim and Scottish generations. It is a community-led charitable project that has been actively documenting a collection of inspirational stories and personal accounts, uniquely told by the protagonists themselves, describing at first hand their stories and adventures. These range all the way from the time of partition itself to resettling in Pakistan, and then to their final accounts of arriving in Scotland. The video footage enables the public to see their facial expressions, feel their emotions and hear their voices, creating poignant memories of these great men and women, and helping to gain a better understanding of the South Asian and Muslim community’s earliest days in Scotland.

The End of History Museums: What's Plan B??

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cary Carson
Keyword(s):  
Historic Sites ◽  
The Public ◽  
End Of History ◽  
House Museums ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Plan B ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
The Way

Abstract Are historic sites and house museums destined to go the way of Oldsmobiles and floppy disks?? Visitation has trended downwards for thirty years. Theories abound, but no one really knows why. To launch a discussion of the problem in the pages of The Public Historian, Cary Carson cautions against the pessimistic view that the past is simply passéé. Instead he offers a ““Plan B”” that takes account of the new way that learners today organize information to make history meaningful.

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