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Introduction to Symposium on the Proposal to Create an International Anti-Corruption Court
No full textIntroduction to Symposium on the Proposal to Create an International Anti-Corruption Cour
Thinking Beyond Electronic Borders: Global Ideas, Global Values
No full textThe theme and indeed title of this Conference is “Thinking beyond Borders: Global Ideas, Global Values.” It is a theme in keeping with numerous developments both within and between countries, nationalities, ethnicities and groups of people in general, that militates against old fashioned and traditional notions of nation state and geopolitical, social, cultural and linguistic boundaries founded on some of the basic ingredients of nationhood, nation-making, and nationalism. To think beyond borders is therefore to give voice to global ideas and global values of the sort that transcend national, regional, municipal borders and thereby embrace truly international, world-wide, and universal beliefs and mores. But not everything is as simple or straightforward as this may suggest
Moral Agency, Bureaucracy & Nurses: A Qualitative Study
No full textThis research explores moral agency among a group of nurses in an urban hospital located in a Western Canadian province. For this study, six Nurses were recruited and their stories describe various limitations within the culture of the healthcare system appears to constrict moral agency and possibly lead to moral distress among nurses. Moral agency seems to be influenced by hierarchy and taking initiatives, time/workload, and the “politics of healthcare”. Nurses also shared experiences of resiliency in facing moral dilemmas in the nursing profession. In conclusion, nurses appear to juggle conflicting priorities between providing quality care to patients and being efficient in the health system. As suggested by previous research, this climate leads to moral distress and may negatively influence the wellbeing of nurses in the care they provide to patients
Reflections on Mental Health Stigma, Narrative, and the Lived Experience of Schizophrenia
No full textI offer a preliminary examination on the importance of narrative for helping to overcome the issue of stigma surrounding mental illness, specifically schizophrenia. I maintain that engaging with first-person accounts of schizophrenia allows caregivers, and the broader general public, to better understand the phenomenological lived experiences of persons living with this mental health challenge and to better understand the experience of dealing with stigma. In doing so, I maintain that both caregivers and the public can begin developing more accepting views of schizophrenia and begin to support those who need it the most
Aging Justice: Health Justice Extended
No full textThe ethical framework of health justice posits that humans have a right to health, a meta-capacity to pursue their goals. However, elderly people are often expected to endure the loss of capacity as natural, while health justice as an ethical framework has been silent on the topic of aging. By extending the idea of health justice to aging, we can see the involuntary deterioration of health and end of life as a social justice issue. Meanwhile, developments in biology suggest that aging may be reversible. Therefore, we ought to support efforts to reverse aging and restore capacities to all peopl
Women as Victims of ‘Misogyny’: Re-centering Gender Marginalization
No full textAmong various views concerning the nature of womanhood, one difference between the materialist and the pluralist accounts is whether a woman should be defined or identified based on her typical female biological features. The former treats “woman” as the social meaning of the biological female, while the latter insists that one can be a woman by virtue of one’s internal identity without also having the normatively associated biological features. In this paper, I argue against the latter view that the inclusion or demarginalization of transwomen requires more than self-identification and that it demands the recognition of the role of ‘misogyny’
Digital Detox: One Strategy for Establishing a More Ethical Relationship to Educational Technologies on Campus
No full textThis paper reviews the Digital Detox project at TRU. At TRU, the Digital Detox is not necessarily about abstaining from technology altogether, but rather establishing a more ethical, healthier approach to the tools we are required to use every day. Conceived this way, a Digital Detox offers an approachable opportunity to discuss difficult and controversial topics in educational technologies. The objective of this paper is to offer description and analysis of one strategy to improve university community engagement on issues of ethics and educational technologies. In addition to understanding our own process for creating this resource at TRU, this paper provides a “toolkit” for starting a Digital Detox event at any campus
Incivility in Social Work Education: Reflections of Three Black Faculty Teaching at Historically White Institutions
No full textThree Black faculty members (i.e., two tenure track Black women faculty and one tenured Black male faculty) recapitulate their experiences through the conceptual frames of four fundamental critical race theory (CRT) tenets: the permanence of racism, interest convergence, intersectionality, and majoritarian narratives) to elucidate further how social work students, colleagues, and administration at Historically white Institutions (HWI) demonstrate antiblackness through acts of incivility. We argue the expectation that all social work students, colleagues, and administration will “demonstrate ethical and professional behavior" (CSWE, 2015) toward Black faculty is deceptively illusory. Given our acute awareness of anti-blackness within white social work education, we felt compelled to voice how such “ethical and professional expectations” have not aligned with the realities of our shared experiences. With this in mind, we sought to explore through usage of the above CRT tenets how it has negatively impacted our ability to model professional values and ethical standards set by the NASW Code of Ethics (2018) in our respective institutions. We offer readers our conclusions and implications for social work education and practice