scholarly journals Art and Bioethics: Shift/Fusion of Understanding Genres

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-258
Author(s):  
Hanna Hubenko
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
The Public ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Common Space ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Artistic Experience ◽  
Bioethical Issues

A fusion of «bioethics» and «art» changes the means and ways of broadcasting art in the field of new biotechnological achievements and recalls responsibility in science. Bioethics socializes art. Art popularizes bioethics and complements its «experience of comprehension» with aesthetic experiences. The article analyzes the connections that unite bioart with science and bioethics. Examples of creative bioart projects at the World Congresses on Bioethics, which draw attention to the installation and performative forms, expressing the artistic experience of bioethical values and meanings that museums and other public fields represent, are given. The processes of forming links between laboratory research (often hidden from public attention) and art-works through practical experiment, dialogue, observation, or play are analyzed. The tandem of art and bioethics provides a link between scientists and the public, reveals new possibilities for ethical reflection, and represents a living manifesto of overcoming the disunity of scientific and everyday practices. Art and bioethics are sources of inspiration for each other. Not only does art expand its boundaries, transforming a scientific experiment into an artistic process, but also bioethics is entering a new level of research and discussion, reinforcing its creative potential through art. Despite the fact that they differ in genre, they create a common space of rational discourse as well as a common ground for familiarizing with the artistic experience in the process of their cooperation and communication, with the purpose of understanding the emerging problems, attracting to them not only professionals, but also broad circle of people interested in bioethical issues.

scholarly journals A Survey of the Knowledge of Truffles among Polish Foresters and Implications for Environmental Education

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 365
Author(s):  
Dorota Hilszczańska ◽  
Aleksandra Rosa-Gruszecka ◽  
Bogusław Kosel ◽  
Jakub Horak ◽  
Marta Siebyła
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Forest Ecology ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Hypogeous Fungi ◽  
The Public ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ecology Education ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Tuber Spp

While the use of truffles in Poland has a long tradition, for historical reasons this knowledge was almost lost. Currently, truffles and truffle orchards are again receiving public attention. For example, the Polish State Forests supported the establishment of truffle orchards by the Forestry Research Institute. In recent years, knowledge concerning these unique hypogeous fungi has been disseminated systematically through scientific and popular publications, films, and electronic media. This study investigates the awareness of economically and culinary valued truffle fungi (Tuber spp.) among more than 1400 Polish foresters. The results show that 70% of interviewees were familiar with historical and contemporary information about growing and using truffles in Poland. Based on respondents’ age, education, type of work, and gender we attempted to identify whether these elements were associated with the state of knowledge about truffles. The results indicated that younger foresters were better informed about the presence of truffles in Poland and also about their use in the past in Polish cuisine. Environmental education was an important source of knowledge about truffle harvesting and the soils that are conducive to truffle development. Foresters who have provided forest ecology education and who are 36–65 years of age generally possessed better knowledge about truffles than other age cohorts. More than 30% of respondents expressed interest in educational courses to improve their knowledge of truffles. The results point to the need for forestry education concerning truffles and indicate the need for fostering sustainable agroforestry-centered initiatives disseminating this knowledge to the public.

scholarly journals XXII. On the Consolidation of the Strata of the Earth

1826 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Hall
Keyword(s):  
Considerable Degree ◽  
Scientific Controversy ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Earth

The public attention, animated by scientific controversy, has of late years been much directed to Geological subjects; and the certainty of many important facts, has in consequence been ascertained beyond dispute, which were formerly unknown, or at least involved in such obscurity, that no person could have ventured to assert them, without being charged with extravagance. But though, no doubt, many branches of this science still remain to be investigated, such inquiries may now be said to have acquired a considerable degree of consistency and interest, from the substantial basis upon which they have been found to rest.

Mumtaz Bibi's broken heart

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohit De
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Traditional Practitioners ◽  
Women In India

This article investigates the formation of a political consensus between conservative ulama, Muslim reformers, nationalist politicians and women's organisations, which led to the enactment of the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act in 1939. The Act was a radical piece of social legislation that gave South Asian Muslim women greater rights for divorce than those enjoyed by other women in India and Britain. Instead of placing women's rights and Islamic law as opposed to each other, the legislation employed a heuristic that guaranteed women's rights by applying Islamic law, allowing Muslim politicians, ulama and women's groups to find common ground on an Islamic modernity. By interrogating the legislative process and the rhetorical positions employed to achieve this consensus, the paper hopes to map how the women's question was being negotiated anew in the space created in the legislatures. The legislative debate over family law redefined the boundaries of the public and the private, and forced nationalists to reconsider the ‘women's question’. The transformation of Islamic law through secular legislation also gave greater licence to the courts in their interpretation, and widened the schism between traditional practitioners of fiqh and modern lawyers.

Corporate social responsibility disclosure on the websites of coffee chains in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petek Tosun
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Csr Disclosure ◽  
Social And Environmental Responsibilities ◽  
Corporate Social

Purpose Coffee is among the primary products that attract the public attention to the social and environmental responsibilities of companies. Coffee shops have a big carbon footprint because of their daily operations. With the rising consciousness about sustainability in developing countries, online disclosure of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is becoming increasingly important for not only multinational but also local coffee chains. The purpose of this study is to analyze the extent to which coffee chains include CSR on their websites. Design/methodology/approach Turkey, which is a large emerging economy with an expanding coffee chain market, is selected as the research context. The CSR disclosure on the websites of coffee chains is examined by content analysis according to CSR dimensions. A sample of 27 coffee chains with more than ten stores is included in the analysis. Findings Foreign coffee chains disclose more information on the environment and fair trade than local coffee chains. On the other hand, CSR content in websites of foreign and local coffee chains does not differ significantly in human resources and community dimensions. Foreign coffee chains have comparatively longer brand history, more rooted brands and larger networks than local coffee chains. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this study is the first that used a content analysis about CSR on the websites of coffee chains in Turkey. Findings contribute to the understanding of CSR disclosure in the coffee chain industry and can be beneficial for researchers and managers in other emerging markets.

In a “Half-dark, Half-light Zone”: Mobility, Precarity, and Moral Ambiguity in Vietnam's Urban Waste Economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minh T.N. Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Network ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Urban Waste ◽  
The Public ◽  
Moral Ambiguity ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
State Agents

AbstractThis article discusses the everyday practices of a mobile network of migrant waste traders originating from northern Vietnam, locating them in an expanding urban waste economy spanning across major urban centres. Based on ethnographic research, I explore how the expansion of the network is foregrounded by the traders’ dealing with the precarious nature of waste trading, which is rooted in the social ambiguity of waste and migrants working with waste in the urban order. Characterised by waste traders as a “half-dark, half-light zone”, the waste economy is unevenly regulated, made up of highly personalised ties, and relatively hidden from the public. It is therefore rife with opportunities for accumulating wealth, but also full of dangers for the waste traders, whose occupation of marginal urban spaces makes them easy targets of both rent-seeking state agents and rogue actors. While demonstrating resilience, their practices suggest tactics of engaging with power that involve a great deal of moral ambiguity, which I argue is central to the increasing precaritisation of labour and the economy in Vietnam today.

scholarly journals Challenging Pedagogy: Emotional Disruptions, Young Girls, Parents and Schools

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalyn George ◽  
John Clay
Keyword(s):  
Initial Study ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Engaged Pedagogy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Friendship Groups ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Uk

This paper follows on from a research project which explored the inclusionary and exclusionary dynamics of young girls’ friendship groups. This initial study received considerable media attention in the UK, Europe and Australia and consequently came to the attention of a wider audience beyond the academy who were thus given an opportunity to engage with the research findings. Having previously explored and analysed the emotionally disabling everyday practices experienced by the girls in the initial research project, the voices of these other adults offered a possibility to explore, examine and analyse the experiences of their daughters and themselves and as a result offered insights that challenge the day to day practices in the classroom. The focus of this paper therefore, is to explore the emotionally raw moments as articulated through the stories told by these adults and to examine what meaning and sense is conveyed about the prevailing norms and values of the school underpinning their pedagogy and practice. We contextualise emotions within a theoretical framework of Sara Ahmed and bell hooks that views emotions in terms of power and culture. The data analysed include contributions from the public to a radio phone-in as well as email responses. The analysis makes explicit the dynamics of power in girls’ friendship groups revealing action/inaction by parents and their accounts about teachers which either disrupt or reinforce dominant practices that pertain. We advocate hooks’ concept of engaged pedagogy to challenge current practices underpinned by neo-liberal assumptions.

scholarly journals Weight Stigma in Healthcare Settings in the United Kingdom: A Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Osinachi Akanwa Ekeagwu
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Healthcare Setting ◽  
Weight Stigma ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Perception Of Health

Due to weight stigma, obese and overweight individuals are stereotyped, rejected and victimised by the public. The pervasion of this discrimination in healthcare settings is concerning given that the healthcare setting plays a crucial role in influencing health and shaping perception of health conditions. Without adequate support and little public attention, obese individuals are primarily left on their own to deal with ongoing prejudice unless addressed through vigorous research and strategic interventions at individual, interpersonal, organisational and community levels, and through policy implementation.

scholarly journals Criminal responsibility for medical malpractice in the jurisdictional practice of Serbia

2019 ◽  
Vol 147 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 380-385
Author(s):  
Vladimir Miletic
Keyword(s):  
Medical Malpractice ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Medical Assistance ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Republic

In the field of protection and improvement of people?s health, there is a special importance of legally, efficiently, regularly, professionally, and punctually providing medical care, performing other healthcare services, or simply providing medical assistance or care. In this way, an essential social function is achieved, as well as the protection of the constitutionally proclaimed right of physical and mental integrity of the public. However, deterioration of an individual?s health who has been medically assisted is possible in the process of providing medical, or any other assistance in the field of medicine. If it is a gross medical misconduct or any other type of medical misconduct, or gross violation of a profession?s rules, because of which there is a possibility of deterioration of health of one or more individuals, then the crime of medical negligence, for which there are strict statutory offences, applies. This article addresses the aspect of theory and practice about the significance, social jeopardy, and prevalence of this crime, or criminal policy of courts in the Republic of Serbia, alongside many articles in the printed and electronic media which provoke great public attention and rough comments.

scholarly journals Reality Show as a Type of Media Discourse (A Study of the Reality Show "Keeping Up With The Kardashians")

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
L. Ikalyuk ◽  
O. Doronyuk
Keyword(s):  
Media Discourse ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Reality Show ◽  
The Us

The article focuses on defining peculiarities of the US reality show as a type of mediadiscourse. Based on a study of the reality show Keeping up with the Kardashians, an attempt has beenmade to determine intralinguistic and extralinguistic factors of creating an image of an ordinaryAmerican family in order to attract the public attention.

scholarly journals Unravelling A Regulation Machine

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-98
Author(s):  
Dionysia Mylonaki ◽  
Panagiotis Tigas
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Technical Aspect ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Machine Leraning

Computational censorship in the form of fake news and toxic comments regulation is a subject that comes up quite often in the public discourse, as a result of the volatile political circumstances on a global scale and due to the unquestionable impact of journalism on these circumstances. Public attention has been directed to the role of mainstream and other media in the formation of public opinion, either in the form of articles or in the form of usergenerated comments. The purpose is to analyse and allow a deeper understanding of a project that is under development, namely, computational-censorship and to show that algorithmic regulation is not a solution, but rather another layer to a more fundamental problem. This article examines the implicationsof developing Machine Leraning/Artificial Iintelligence (ML/AI) which aims to regulate the internet and we attempt to allow a glimpse into the technical aspect of the problem as a way to back arguments that could be re-jected by the ML/AI research community as “non-pragmatic”. Finally, it aims to highlight the absurdity of the current approach to research in this area, which is the exact opposite of the rationalism that the field claims to be embracing.

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