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    Author Peter FitzSimons speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 13 November 2012 /

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    Title from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author Peter FitzSimons speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 13 November 2012.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia

    Professor Peter Singer speaking at the National Press Club Canberra, 11 February 2009 [picture] /

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    Title devised by cataloguer based on information from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Humanitarian author Professor Peter Singer at the National Press Club, Canberra, 11 February 2009.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia, 2009

    Transableism, Disability and Paternalism in Public Health Ethics: Taxonomies, identity Disorders and Persistent Unexplained Physical Symptoms

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    Transableism is a term which refers to moving between states of being able and disabled by choice rather than by happenstance. Insofar as this may imply a choice to become dependent, claims upon the healthcare system are likely to result. In this piece we aim to explore some ethical and legal implications of such claims. In order to do so, we draw upon current debates over the place of autonomy, beneficence and paternalism in public health ethics, the taxonomy of disability and the status of persistent unexplained physical symptoms (henceforth, PUPS). We suggest that transableism represents a useful construct which may contribute towards resolution of ongoing difficulties within public health ethics and theories of disability. In addition, we believe that it holds promise for the understanding of a significant proportion of patients presenting PUPS. We focus upon identity disorders, particularly in relation to what is currently termed Body Integrity Identity Disorder (henceforth, BIID), where sufferers report a subjective conviction that one or more of their limbs are superfluous, requesting medical assistance to remove the offending limb[s], repair the results of attempts at their self-removal or to provide prostheses and other assistance after removal. We have considered BIID elsewhere in relation to consent, capacity and the doctor/patient relationship (Mackenzie and Cox, 2005). One of us has also explored how the definition of addiction as a chronic relapsing disease within public health governance enables cycles of transitions between the rigours of rational liberal citizenship and the shriven status of the sick (Mackenzie, 2006). Since a central aim in this piece is evaluate the place of transableism within public health ethics, we will begin by considering the latter as a discursive context for the arguments which follow

    Regulating Reprogenetics: Strategic Sacralisation and Semantic Message

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    This paper forms part of the feminist critique of the regulatory consequences of biomedicine's systematic exclusion of the role of women's bodies in the development ofreprogenetic technologies. I suggest that strategic use of notions of the sacred to decontextualise and delimit disagreement fosters this marginalisation. Here conceptions of the sacred a sacralisation afford a means by which pragmatic consensus over regulation may be achieved, through the deployment of a bricolage of dense images associated with cultural loyalties to solidify support or to exclude contradictory elements. Hence an explicit renegoation of the symbolic order structuring salient debates is necessary to disrupt and enrich the entrenched and exclusionary dominant discourse over reprogenetic regulation of infertility treatment and embryo research in the UNited Kingdom, the cultural anthropology of biomedicine and feminist ethnographies of reprogenetics to illustrate these claims

    DSpace for e-print archives

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    DSpaceTM (http://dspace.org/) is the new open source digital repository system from the MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs designed to support the digital collections of academic research institutions, as well as the SPARC conception of Institutional Repositories for digital research material. The DSpace system has been described elsewhere in detail so the focus of this article is on its implementation at MIT for archiving e-prints and other artifacts of scholarly communication, and making these available to the public. The MIT Libraries are deeply concerned about the well-documented crisis in scholarly communication and are committed to working towards innovative solutions. We share this concern with many of the MIT faculty and administration, several of who have been key supporters of the DSpace project and related initiatives at the university. The MIT Libraries were a founding member of SPARC, and are a signatory of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). This article will describe how MIT Libraries have implemented DSpace to support these goals

    Reactions to a Continuous Feedback Intervention in a Software Company

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    A Thesis [actually a Plan B] SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY Mackenzie Kay Raboin IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS, April 20198Raboin, Mackenzie K. (2018). Reactions to a Continuous Feedback Intervention in a Software Company. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/196501

    Geology of Graham Island, British Columbia

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    by J.D. Mackenzie.Series ; Bulletin (Geological Survey of Canada : 1921). Geological series ; no. 72. Memoir (Geological Survey of Canada) ; 88. Accompanies Southern portion of Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia [cartographic material] / geology, J.D. Mackenzie ; geography, British Admiralty and Department of the Naval Service of Canada, Department of Lands, British Columbia, J.D. MacKenzie ; C.O. Senecal, geographer and chief draughtsman. Two folded maps in pocket

    Paradigms of Author/Creator Property Rights in Intellectual Property Law: Ethical Implications for the Acquisition, Access and Control of Genetic Information

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    Book Abstract: This diverse collection of papers attempts to critically address and discuss issues surrounding the control of, and access to, genetic information from ethical, medical, legal and theoretical points of view. Special reference is made to the implications of genetic information for eugenics, the insurance industry, commercialization of genetic testing, strategies for raising public awareness and the value of theoretical, ethical and sociological frameworks in the debate

    Kali simpliciuscula Mackenzie

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    K. simpliciuscula (Wahlenb.) Mackenzie (K. caricina Willd., K. bipartita Dalla Torre) Cat. 362. Die Standorte sind nicht «pelouses des aretes» (Cat.), sondern Flachmoore und Quellenränder. 2: Bellalui (Knetsch). - 3: Ginanzalp (Garns).Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-55
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