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    • The detention of voluntary and involuntary patients in mental health facilities: the ethical considerations 

      National Advisory Committee on Bioethics; Green, Andrew; Bradley, Colin; Gordijn, Bert; Hull, Richard; Kennedy, Harry; Madden, Deirdre; McAuley, Adam; McCarthy, Joan; McQuillan, Regina; Sheikh, Asim A.; Smith, David (Department of Health, 2015)
      It has been estimated that one in four people will experience some form of mental ill-health in their lifetime.1 This can range from feelings of anxiety, to depression, to more severe mental health problems, such as ...

    • Dialogue, ethics, and the aesthetic worth of life 

      Cipriani, Gerald (The Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, 2014)
      The ones who dictate and act for their own survival regardless of the existence of otherness soon realize, often too late, that there cannot be such a survival. To realize this is simply to understand the nature of the ...

    • Ethical Issues in Internet Research: International Good Practice and Irish Research Ethics Documents 

      Felzmann, Heike (Research-publishing.net, 2013)
      This chapter discusses the main research ethical concerns that arise in internet research and reviews existing research ethical guidance in the Irish context in relation to its application to internet research. The ...

    • Givenness, grace and Marion's Augustinianism 

      Ó Murchadha, Felix (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018-12)
      Marion's account of the ego can be understood as an Augustinian critique of the capable ego from Descartes to Kant. This paper will discuss such post-Kantian Augustinianism as a response to a certain Pelagian Stoicism ...

    • Guidance for developing ethical research projects involving children 

      Department of Children and Youth Affairs Working Group on Research Ethics; Cleary, Anne; Archer, Peter; Bond, Laurence; Curtis, Ruth; Fallon, Maureen; Felzmann, Heike; Hanafin, Sinéad; Keeneghan, Celia; Lynch, Aine; Madden, Deirdre; Redmond, Adrian; Meaney, Bairbre (Department of Children and Youth Affairs, 2012)
      The aim of this guidance paper, produced by a working group on behalf of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA), is to advise on good practice principles for undertaking research with children (defined in ...

    • Humanitarianisms in context 

      O'Sullivan, Kevin; Hilton, Matthew; Fiori, Juliano (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2016-03-16)
      This introduction describes the rapidly expanding history of non-state humanitarianism in terms of three themes. First, it argues that we should think about humanitarianism less in terms of ruptures or breaks, and focus ...

    • Love's conditions: Passion and the practice of philosophy 

      Ó Murchadha, Felix (Penn State University Press, 2015)
      [No abstract available]

    • Speaking after the phenomenon: the promise of things and the future of phenomenology 

      Ó Murchadha, Felix (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-01-17)
      Phenomenology speaks not directly of phenomena but rather of the appearing of phenomena. In so speaking it moves from the level of things with generic or proper names to the level of universal terms. In speaking and ...

    • Specific informed consent for blood transfusion: the ethical considerations 

      National Advisory Committee on Bioethics; Green, Andrew; Bradley, Colin; Gordijn, Bert; Hull, Richard; Kennedy, Harry; Madden, Deirdre; McAuley, Adam; McCarthy, Joan; McQuillan, Regina; Sheikh, Asim A.; Smith, David (Department of Health, 2013)
      The Minister for Health, Dr. James Reilly T.D., established the National Advisory Committee on Bioethics in March 2012. The task of this Committee is to advise the Minister on the ethical and social implications of scientific ...

    • Steven Crowell - Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger 

      O'Rourke, Jonathan (Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, 2013-09-21)
      Given the ubiquity of Husserl's influence in the twentieth century, it is often vexing to interpret the complicated appropriation of his vocabulary by later writers. In particular, his placement of phenomenology in the ...

    • Technologies to support community-dwelling persons with dementia: a position paper on issues regarding development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics 

      Innes, Anthea; Meiland, Franka; Mountain, Gail; Robinson, Louise; van der Roest, Henriëtte; García-Casal, J. Antonio; Gove, Dianne; Thyrian, Jochen René; Evans, Shirley; Dröes, Rose-Marie; Kelly, Fiona; Kurz, Alexander; Casey, Dympna; Szcześniak, Dorota; Dening, Tom; Craven, Tom; Span, Marijke; Felzmann, Heike; Tsolaki, Magda; Franco-Martín, Manuel (JMIR Publications, 2017-01-16)
      Background: With the expected increase in the numbers of persons with dementia, providing timely, adequate, and affordable care and support is challenging. Assistive and health technologies may be a valuable contribution ...

    • The temporality of violence: Destruction, dissolution and the construction of sense 

      Ó Murchadha, Felix (Palgrave and McMillan, 2019-11-24)
      Violence tends to the destruction of meaningful entities and of that in and through which such entities are meaningful. Not all violence is annihilating in its effects, but violence aims towards a nothingness in which is ...