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Anna Smajdor claims that one means of addressing the declining fertility rate of Western countries is to develop artificial womb technology and to provide widespread access to this technology. Smajdor claims that Ronald Dworkin's resource egalitarianism justifies this approach. In this essay, I argue that Dworkin's resource egalitarianism does not justify the development of artificial womb technology. I furthermore claim that we must examine a variety of issues, including how the presence of artificial womb technology will affect society, before developing this technology.

In Thailand, a series of global and local political events has destabilized the concept of dying and begun to replace it with a competing concept known as "the end of life." As a result, the ethical frameworks governing the Thai deathbed have become disjointed. This dissertation is about the origin of these frameworks and how individuals, families and care providers navigate them. In Northern Thailand, dying has traditionally been conceived in two phases. First, from diagnosis until the hours before death, family members are driven by an imperative to pay back a "debt of life" to their relative by giving them "heart power" - support based on a unique model of the relationship between heart/mind, body and social world. The imperative to give "heart power" sets up an ambiguous relationship to truth-telling, which can drain heart power and hasten death. Second, the last hours of life are governed by an imperative to optimize the separation of body and spirit at the moment of death, best achieved in the familiarity of home rather than the metaphysically polluted hospital. It is into this ethical environment of these two phases that the new object "end of life" has arrived. In the 1990s, a military massacre of pro-democracy protesters and a scandal in the Buddhist clergy caused an opening in the traditional structures of Thai power. During this opening, the famous activist monk Buddhadasa died in the intensive care unit, against his wish for a natural death. Political and religious reform groups rallied around the Saint's death as the focus of their interventions for Thai society. They proposed a set of new ethical figures: the figure of the dying patient as a rights-wielding citizen, and the figure of the dying patient as seeker of wisdom. These ethical figures require a knowing subject and stretch the moment of death into a prolonged "end of life" that can be used for subject formation. These figures clash with the existing frameworks at the deathbed, which require an ignorant subject and conceive death as a moment. Individuals must navigate among these politicized ethical frameworks to make decisions about dying.

AbstractResearch indicates that the well‐being and productivity of over 100 million people in the global workforce may be compromised by posttraumatic stress (PTS). Given that work‐related experiences are often the source of the trauma that leads to PTS, and that PTS due to any cause can interfere with employees' job performance, organizations would do well to consider the antecedents and consequences of PTS. This review of research—primarily within fields adjacent to business—on the types, antecedents, consequences, and organizational implications of PTS is presented to advance inquiry within the field of business. The definition of PTS requires attention to the new classification of complex posttraumatic stress disorder that can result from threats that are not life‐threatening such as bullying and sexual harassment. PTS antecedents include organizational and extraorganizational traumas, and risk and resilience factors. Absenteeism, impaired cognitive functioning, strained relationships, and growth are among the consequences of PTS. Organizations can assist through disaster planning, empathetic leaders, mental health literacy initiatives, and employee assistance programs. Many research questions arise that, when answered, will allow organizations to better understand how they can improve employee productivity and well‐being by attending to PTS.

"How should we describe the devastation brought about on the lives of the enslaved? How should we describe plantation slavery as an institutionalized and transgenerational structure of dominance? Irreparable Evil, by David Scott, is an intellectual engagement with the insufficiently acknowledged legacy of plantation slavery in the New World. He argues that while slavery involved unimaginable practices of violence, its destructive powers include that of an inherited form of life. The perniciousness of slavery was its legacy as an inheritance of future generations. Scott's locational focus is the Anglophone Caribbean with an emphasis on Jamaica. Written as a series of interconnected essays, Scott consider what he means by moral and reparatory history and the related concepts of incomparable evil and incommensurable evil. He explores the problems of fictional conceptions of slavery's evil and concludes with an interrogation of whether or not the evil of slavery is ever truly reparable"--

This is a philosophical work that develops a general theory of ontological objects and object-relations. It does this by examining concepts as acquired dispositions, and then focuses on perhaps the most important of these: the concept of learning. This concept is important because everything that we know and do in the world is predicated on a prior act of learning.

A concept can have many meanings and can be used in a number of different ways, and this creates difficulty when considering the nature of objects and the relationships between them. To enable this, David Scott answers a series of questions about concepts in general and the concept of learning in particular. Some of these questions are: What is learning? What different meanings can be given to the notion of learning? How does the concept of learning relate to other concepts, such as innatism, development and progression?

The book offers a counter-argument to empiricist conceptions of learning, to the propagation of simple messages about learning, knowledge, curriculum and assessment, and to the denial that values are central to understanding how we live. It argues that values permeate everything: our descriptions of the world, the attempts we make at creating better futures and our relations with other people.

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'Provides a nuanced and layered understanding of the complex concept and practice of learning to students and researchers.'
Educational Review

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Ontogenesis and the Concepts of Individuation -- 2 The Individuation of Perceptive Unities and Signification -- 3 Individuation and Affectivity -- 4 Problematic of Ontogenesis and Psychic Individuation -- 5 The Individual and the Social, the Individuation of the Group -- 6 The Collective as Condition of Signification -- 7 An Ethics of Ontogenesis and a Non-human Humanism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Name Index

This is a philosophical work that develops a general theory of ontological objects and object-relations. It does this by examining concepts as acquired dispositions, and then focuses on perhaps the most important of these: the concept of learning. This concept is important because everything that we know and do in the world is predicated on a prior act of learning. A concept can have many meanings and can be used in a number of different ways, and this creates difficulty when considering the nature of objects and the relationships between them. To enable this, David Scott answers a series of questions about concepts in general and the concept of learning in particular. Some of these questions are: What is learning? What different meanings can be given to the notion of learning? How does the concept of learning relate to other concepts, such as innatism, development and progression? The book offers a counter-argument to empiricist conceptions of learning, to the propagation of simple messages about learning, knowledge, curriculum and assessment, and to the denial that values are central to understanding how we live. It argues that values permeate everything: our descriptions of the world, the attempts we make at creating better futures and our relations with other people.

Series Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Foucault's Modernisms / David Scott -- Part 1. Conceptualizing Foucault 1. The Origin of Parresia in Foucault's Thinking: Truth and Freedom in The History of Madness / Leonard Lawlor and Daniel J. Palumbo ; 2. The Secret of the Corpse-Language Machine: The Birth of the Clinic and Raymond / Roussel David Scott ; 3. Intersections of the Concept and Literature in TheOrder of Things: Foucault and Canguilhem / Samuel Talcott ; 4. ArcArcheology of Knowledge: Foucault and the Time of Discourse / Heath Massey ; 5. Carceral, Capital, Power: The 'Dark Side' of the Enlightenment in Discipline and Punish / Christopher Penfield ; 6. Foucault's History of Sexuality / Chloë Taylor -- Part 2. Foucault and Aesthetics. 7. Technologies of Modernism: Historicism in Foucault and Dos Passos / Christopher Breu ; 8. Thought as Spirituality in Raymond Roussel / Ann Burlein ; 9. Life Escaping: Foucault, Vitalism, and Gertrude Stein's Life-Writing / Sarah Posman ; 10. The Specter of Manet: A Contribution to the Archaeology of Painting / Joseph Tanke ; 11. The Hermaphroditic Image: Modern Art, Thought and Exp rience in Michel Foucault / Nicole Ridgway -- Part 3. Glossary. Archaeology / Heath Massey ; The "Author-Function" / Seth Forrest ; Biopower / Chloë Taylor ; Discipline / Steve Tammelleo ; Episteme / Samuel Talcott ; Genealogy / Brad Elliot Stone ; Power / Brad Elliot Stone ; Problematization / Daniele Lorenzini ; Transgression / Janae Scholtz ; Truth / Marc De Kesel ; Subjectivation / Mark Murphy -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

In these series of letters-which David Scott wrote to Stuart Hall following his death-Scott characterizes Hall's voice and his practice of speaking, listening, and generosity as the foundational elements of Hall's intellectual work.