EUTHANASIA - A CHOICE BETWEEN DEATH AND DEATH (THE VIEW OF EUROPE AND RUSSIA)

В современном научном дискурсе появляется много интересных тем, рассматривающих самые острые проблемы социума, и одна из них - табуированная тема - эвтаназия. Эта проблема носит междисциплинарный характер. Философы, в рамках биоэтики, осмысливают нравственные аспекты, психологи «решают» дилемму «хорошо/плохо», «убийство/самоубийство/гуманный акт помощи», юристы прорабатывают нормативно-правовые акты по защите, зачастую трудносовместимых, прав пациентов/врачей/выгодополучателей, медики, сталкиваясь с «невыносимой физической и психологической болью» пациентов и близких родственников, предлагают свои варианты решения проблемы, физики, химики, генетики не остаются в стороне, развивая нейротехнологии, регенеративную медицину, фармакологию, био- и генные технологии. Политики, разворачивая широкие дискуссии о морально-этической стороне этого вопроса, российском традиционализме, либеральных ценностях, устраивая политические дебаты, разрабатывают дивиденды. Социологи, рассматривая эту социальную проблему, замеряют «градус общественного мнения». Общество, как живой сложносоставной организм, опираясь на свои ментальные программы, реагирует по-разному: от полного неприятия («человеческая жизнь - божественный дар») до однозначной легализации процедуры «достойной смерти, качественной смерти». Одна из важных проблем медицинского профессионального сообщества - проблема обеспечения «достойной смерти» неизлечимо больных пациентов и связанная с ней проблема эвтаназии. Мнение полярно. На понимание медиками проблем легализации эвтаназии оказывают влияние разновекторные факторы: во-первых, ценностные установки, во-вторых, опыт и место работы (врачи паллиативных отделений, хосписов, онкологи, имеющие большой стаж работы, более склоны к легализации эвтаназии), в-третьих, техническое, технологическое, фармакологическое обеспечение медицинского учреждения, в-четвертых, нормативно-правовая составляющая. Many interesting topics appear in the modern scientific discourse. They consider the most acute problems of society and one of them is a taboo topic - euthanasia. This problem is of an interdisciplinary nature. Philosophers within the framework of bioethics comprehend the moral aspects. Psychologists "solve" the dilemma of "good/bad", "murder/suicide/humane act of assistance". Lawyers are working on regulatory legal acts to protect the rights of patients/doctors/beneficiaries, which are often difficult to replace. Doctors, facing the "unbearable physical and psychological pain" of patients and close relatives, offer their own solutions to the problem, physicists, chemists, geneticists do not stay away, developing neurotechnologies, regenerative medicine, pharmacology, bio and gene technologies. Politicians also do not stand aside, unfolding broad discussions, arranging political debates, developing dividends. Sociologists considering this social problem measure the "degree of public opinion". Society as a living complex organism relying on its mental programs reacts in different ways: from complete rejection to legalization of this procedure. One of the important problems of the medical professional community is the problem of ensuring a “dignified death” of terminally ill patients and the related problem of euthanasia. The opinion of doctors is polar. Doctor`s understanding of the problems of legalizing euthanasia is influenced by various factors: firstly, values, secondly, experience and place of work (doctors of palliative departments, hospices, oncologists with long work experience are more inclined to legalize euthanasia), thirdly, technical, technological, pharmacological support of a medical institution, and fourthly, the regulatory component

Penetration of COVID-19 Related Terminology into Legal, Medical, and Journalistic Discourses

March 2020 has become a moment of change in communication mode and quality. Previously, the media paid attention to the current affairs, however, never earlier the journalistic discourse has been so influentially affected by the ongoing phenomenon as in the case of COVID-19. Almost overnight the new terminological phenomena with specific legal or medical reference were introduced into everyday language mainly via mass media and become an important part of a pandemic related narration. The strong influence on the shape of the mentioned linguistic changes has mainly the adoption of new legal regulations due to the unexpected outbreak of the pandemic. The aim of the following paper is to investigate how COVID-19 pandemic affected the specialisation of the journalistic discourse and how different domains (law, medicine) are being influenced by new terminology and in other way round, how for example law and medicine influence new “COVID language”. In order to take the interdisciplinary nature of the issue into account, the degree of hybridity of the selected texts will be examined by means of selected material analysis. The methodology applied in the paper uses an empirical approach and comparative analysis. The material used for the analysis comes from the selected Polish quality and boulevard press. The paper concerns the linguistic influence of the “invisible enemy” on the language presented in press. The main findings reveal the intense use of neologisms, borrowings, and it shows that the discourse was changed linguistically thanks to Student’s t-test.

The Interdisciplinary Nature-Induced Disaster Index: Eldgjá, Laki, and How to Evaluate Historical Sources in an Interdisciplinary Framework

The integration of archives of society with archives of nature has helped scholars to date extreme events precisely. This approach has led to collaboration between the natural sciences and the humanities. While it has helped to highlight the dimensions of nature-induced disasters and their societal consequences, it has often led to rather monocausal explanations, promoting nature as the prime agent in history. The field is currently experiencing a shift away from monocausal explanations. Cultural factors need to be examined as well in order to analyze their contribution to disasters properly. To aid in this endeavor, we introduce the “Interdisciplinary Nature-Induced Disaster index” (INID-index), a tool to successfully integrate historical material into research on natural extreme events and their impacts on past societies. Eldgjá (ca. 934–940 CE) and Laki (1783–1784 CE)—the two major Icelandic eruptions of the Common Era—will be used as case studies to demonstrate the benefits of the index. A third contrasting study on a volcanic event in around 913 CE highlights the desiderata that the index can indicate, and its limitations. We consider this paper an offer to make transparent the questions that historians ask themselves and an example of a way to increase understanding across disciplinary cultures.

Interpreting the slope of a straight line in kinematics graphs with school students

The interdisciplinary nature of knowledge is one of the objectives promoted in Colombia, fostering in students the ability to recognize that the curriculum does not work in isolation; if knowledge is complementary, its joint development leads to better academic performance. This research is oriented towards showing an application of the mathematical concept of the slope of the straight line in physics applications, favoring the understanding of the relationships between variables, as occurs with the graphs of kinematics. A group of eleventh grade students from a private educational institution filled in a questionnaire for data collection, based on three situations proposed to answer three open questions in which a reasonably justified answer was required. A part of the group correctly interpreted the graphs by describing the characteristics of the movement in each time interval, but only a few were able to associate the slope of the line as the velocity or acceleration as a function of the variables mentioned in the graph, although their argumentation was based on the angle of elevation of the line.

Challenges for Improving Agricultural Resilience in the Context of Sustainability and Rural Development

Research on economic resilience in agriculture is quite complicated due to the interdisciplinary nature of the notion. In agricultural, climate change, sustainability and food security research it appears as an endogenous phenomenon rather as the main one. This study aims to contribute to conceptualization of economic resilience in agriculture, revealing current and identifying future research directions. Bibliometric analysis supplemented with a literature overview serve this purpose. Results confirm the ambiguity and immaturity of economic resilience concept and its secondary position within overall agricultural resilience research framework.

Complexity, interdisciplinarity and design literacy

In today’s complex world, a variety of perspectives are needed to better understand and solve challenges. For decades, global organisations and researchers have pointed to interdisciplinarity as a way forward for educational systems. Educational research offers great possibilities and gains for students involved in interdisciplinary teaching and learning processes, and the interdisciplinary nature of design thinking and practice can play a vital role in interdisciplinary general education. This paper explores how future scenario-building, as part of general design education, can serve as a framework for inter-disciplinarity in general education and contribute to a better understanding of complex problems, challenges and design literacy.

Różnorodność językowa przesiedleńców z dawnych wschodnich województw II Rzeczypospolitej. Fonetyka

Linguistic Diversity of People Resettled from the Former Eastern Provinces of the Second Polish Republic: PhoneticsThis article is a summary of a sociolinguistic study conducted in the north­ern part of the Lubusz region in 2009–2019. The study concerned the linguistic diversity of people resettled after 1945 from the former eastern provinces of the Second Polish Republic to the Lubusz region. The informants were people from the oldest generation who were born between 1911 and 1942 in the former Polish administrative provinces in the east of pre-war Poland: Wilno (Vilnius), Nowogródek (Navahrudak), Polesia, Volhynia, Tarnopol (Ternopil), Lwów (Lviv), Stanisławów (today: Ivano-Frankivsk) and Białystok. As described, the interdisciplinary nature of the study required the use of several research methods: field research, biographical interview, linguistic biography, grounded theory, and methods of idiolect analysis (quantitative analysis). On the basis of the collected sociolinguistic material, the interlocu­tors are classified according to their self-declared primary language prior to the resettlement. This means that the linguonyms used in the article come from the language of the respondents. Accordingly, the following groups are distinguished: speakers of (1) Ukrainian and Polish, (2) Belarusian and Polish, (3) Polish and Belarusian, (4) Polish and Ukrainian, (5) Polish and Khakhlak. Based on a quantitative analysis, the article presents the linguistic diversity in the Lubusz region.Różnorodność językowa przesiedleńców z dawnych wschodnich województw II Rzeczypospolitej. FonetykaArtykuł jest podsumowaniem socjolingwistycznych badań prowadzonych na terenie północnej części województwa lubuskiego w latach 2009–2019. Badania dotyczyły różnorodności językowej wśród osób przesiedlonych po 1945 r. z dawnych wschodnich województw II Rzeczypospolitej do regionu lubuskiego. Moimi rozmówcami były osoby urodzone w latach 1911–1942 na terenie województw: wileńskiego, nowogródzkiego, poleskiego, wołyńskiego, tarnopolskiego, lwowskiego, stanisławowskiego i białostockiego. Charakter interdyscyplinarnych badań wymagał wykorzystania kilku metod badawczych. W artykule można znaleźć opis metody badań terenowych, metody wywiadu biograficznego, metody biografii językowej, metody teorii ugruntowanej oraz metody analizy idiolektów (analizy ilościowej). Na podstawie zebranego mate­riału socjolingwistycznego klasyfikowałam rozmówców według deklaracji wskazanego przez nich języka prymarnego przed przesiedleniem. Oznacza to, że lingwonimy użyte w artykule pochodzą z języka respondentów. W taki sposób wyróżniłam grupę deklarującą mówienie 1) po ukraińsku i polsku, 2) po białorusku i polsku, 3) po polsku i białorusku, 4) po polsku i ukraińsku oraz 5) po polsku i chachłacku. Na podstawie analizy ilościowej przedstawiam w artykule różnorodność językową w regionie lubuskim.

Philosophical and Historical Perspective of the Development of Electoral Technologies

The main purpose of the article is to characterise the philosophical and historical perspective of the de- velopment of electoral technologies. The methodological basis of the research is conditioned by the pecu- liarities of the research subject, its interdisciplinary nature and expediency of a combination of sociologi- cal, historical-philosophical, political science and other approaches. Philosophical and historical analysis showed that electoral technologies should be understood as a kind of political communication used to ma- nipulate public opinion. In turn, this makes it possible for politicians to have a monopoly on the manage- ment of the electorate in order to obtain its support in the elections. Considering electoral technologies, we must consider their connection and combination with the totality of electoral technologies. That is, it should be noted that the actual electoral process involves the passage of two mega stages: 1) the preparato- ry (pre-election) stage, at which pre-election technologies are applied, and 2) the official election cam- paign itself (purely electoral stage), in the process of which the actual electoral technologies are used.

Review of the Monograph “Advertising as an Integral Part of a Film” by Yuliia Shevchuk

The topic of Yu. S. Shevchuk's monograph "Advertising as an integral part of the film"involves the interdisciplinary nature of the study. Its disclosure required the scientist to have a thorough knowledge of film material, the ability to analyze the visual and audiovisual series of cinema in combination with the use of categorical apparatus and methodology of social communication research.