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Vriendskap teenoor vyandskap in taalbeplanning vir die Universiteit Stellenbosch : die bydrae van Leon de Stadler
(University of Stellenbosch, Department of General Linguistics, 2017)No abstract available. -
How do healthcare professionals manage ethical challenges regarding information in healthcare professional/patient clinical interactions? a review of concept- or argument-based articles and case analyses
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-12)Background. This study forms part of an ongoing research project that seeks to enhance the information-management skills of health professionals within the clinical context. Objectives. To review case analyses and reviews ... -
Ethical considerations in the prevention of childhood obesity
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Childhood obesity is a global pandemic, the prevention of which is a public health priority. The aim of this thesis is to explore the ethical issues that arise when designing, implementing and assessing ... -
Towards ethical consumerism: bridging the gap between the obstacles and drivers of ethical consumerism
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Being an ethical consumer means making informed purchasing decisions. Ethical consumers buy products that are ethically produced and that are not harmful to the environment or to society. They value all ... -
Evidence, truth, reality and power: A Foucauldian analysis of the ethics of testing and using novel medical devices
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: From the onset of time, human beings have used substances in all forms and shapes to promote health. Prior to the nineteenth century, traditional folk medicine, religious ceremonies, magical practices, ... -
Exploring Martin Heidegger’s conceptions of phenomenology and transcendence: addressing the problem of religious fundamentalist violence
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research uses Martin Heidegger’s phenomenological understanding of Dasein (human existence or being) as a frame for developing an improved understanding of why religious fundamentalist violence ... -
A framework for using experiential learning theory to develop game-based learning
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores experiential learning and game-based learning to determine how experiential learning can be used to support game-based learning design in workplace settings. The study used a ... -
The possibility of sacrifice: a Levinasian reconceptualisation of supererogation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study offers a reconceptualisation of supererogation based on the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas. The study comprises two parts. In Part I, a critical analysis of supererogation, understood as encompassing ... -
Governance and power in mental health integration processes in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: On the back of centuries of scholarship, mental illness remains a deeply political challenge in modern societies. Although much headway has been made in researching mental health service provision in ... -
An ethical analysis of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The recent phenomenon of Ebola Viral Disease’s (EVD) rapid spread and difficulty in containment in the West Africa countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone during 2014 drew the attention of the ... -
From dis-enclosure to decolonisation : in dialogue with Nancy and Mbembe on self-determination and the other
(MDPI, 2011-04-13)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: What might a sense of decolonisation (not)/be? Or, what comes after the logic of the coloniser? This question is at the centre of many debates in South Africa and extends to all countries worldwide who ... -
Harm: The counterfactual comparative account, the omission and pre-emption problems, and well-being
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-03)The concept of “harm” is ubiquitous in moral theorising, and yet remains poorly defined. Bradley suggests that the counterfactual comparative account of harm is the most plausible account currently available, but also ... -
Raising ethical issues in the dead: an exploration of ethical challenges in Forensic Medicine
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: This dissertation explores ethical challenges in the forensic medicine field. Pivotal to forensic pathology are the deceased and the medico-legal investigation. The unique relationship between forensic ... -
(Mis)identifying the phenomenological-semiotic locus of human sexual (in)difference
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: The aim of this thesis is to critique the validity of selecting specific material features of human embodiment (such as sex or skin colour) as stable sources of identity. Insofar as such identities are ... -
The exploitation of the labour of love
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: This thesis seeks to establish the wrongfulness of an unequal division of nurturing work between members of heterosexual couples. Nurturing work is the overlapping constellation of housework, care, and ... -
Citizenship as a human well-being capability
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: The aim of this dissertation is to defend the claim that citizenship is an architectonic human well-being capability. Citizenship so conceived is a necessary condition for human flourishing. I make and ... -
Citizen solidarity in diverse societies: a case for deliberative democracy
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: This thesis seeks to answer the Question: What is the most appropriate basis for solidarity among citizens of diverse societies? Members of such societies do not only have different belief systems and ... -
A decent minimum of health care in South Africa: a bioethical proposal
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY: In this thesis I identify some of the major challenges faced by the current health care system of South Africa. Thereafter conceptual analyses are done with regards to what is meant by a health care system ... -
The ethics of responsibility : the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
(SUN MeDIA Bloemfontein, 2008-06)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics is based on the Other/other. He argues that we are in an asymmetrical relationship with our neighbour that pre-destines us to ethical responsibility even before consciousness or ... -
Complexity, postmodernism and the bioethical dilemma
(SUN MeDIA Bloemfontein, 2008)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This article examines the implications of a postmodern ethics for bioethical problems. Traditional approaches to bioethics, with specific reference to “principlism”, depend on a modernist strategy which ...
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