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Listening to the whispers re-thinking ethics in healthcare /

Table of Contents: “…Craddock Lee -- Teleology, the modern moral dichotomy, and postmodern bioethics in the 21st century / John Paul Slosar -- Reflections of moral dilemmas and patterns of ethical decision making in five clinical physical therapists / Bruce H. …”
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Patient, heal thyself how the new medicine puts the patient in charge / by Veatch, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…-- Beyond prettiness: death, disease, and being fat -- Universal but varied health insurance: only separate is equal -- Health insurance: the case for multiple lists -- Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care I: the history of the hospice -- Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care II: hospice in a postmodern era -- Randomized human experimentation: the modern dilemma -- Randomized human experimentation: a proposal for the new medicine -- Clinical practice guidelines and why they are wrong -- Outcomes research and how values sneak into finding of fact -- The consensus of medical experts and why it is wrong so often.…”
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Information Technology and Organizational Learning : Managing Behavioral Change in the Digital Age by Langer, Arthur M.

Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 The “Ravell” Corporation -- chapter 2 The IT Dilemma -- chapter 3 Technology as a Variable and Responsive Organizational Dynamism -- chapter 4 Organizational Learning Theories and Technology -- chapter 5 Managing Organizational Learning and Technology -- chapter 6 Organizational Transformation and the Balanced Scorecard -- chapter 7 Virtual Teams and Outsourcing -- chapter 8 Synergistic Union of IT and Organizational Learning -- chapter 9 Forming a Cyber Security Culture -- chapter 10 Digital Transformation and Changes in Consumer Behavior -- chapter 11 Integrating Generation Y Employees to Accelerate Competitive Advantage -- chapter 12 Toward Best Practices -- chapter 13 conclusIons.…”
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Promoting the rule of law abroad in search of knowledge /

Table of Contents: “…/ Matthew Stephenson -- The complexity of success in Russia / Matthew Spence -- Middle East dilemmas / David Mednicoff -- Time to learn, time to act in Africa / Laure-Hélène Piron -- Measuring the impact of criminal justice reform in Latin America / Lisa Bhansali and Christina Biebesheimer -- Steps toward knowledge / Thomas Carothers.…”
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Understanding the Global Energy Crisis /

Table of Contents: “…Policy challenges for the built environment: The dilemma of the existing building stock -- Epilogue: Reflections on our path forward.…”
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Quentin Tarantino and philosophy how to philosophize with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch /

Table of Contents: “…Auxier -- Coke into Pepsi : the miracle in Pulp fiction / Keith Allen Korcz -- Quentin Tarantino and the ex-convict's dilemma / Richard Greene -- Kill Bill : Tarantino's oedipal play / Mark T. …”
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Financial contagion the viral threat to the wealth of nations /

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Twins in African and diaspora cultures double trouble, twice blessed /

Table of Contents: “…Van Beek -- Snake, bush, and metaphor : twinship among Ubangians / Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers -- Fiction and forbidden sexual fantasy in the culture of Temne twins / Frederick John Lamp -- Embodied dilemma : Tabwa twinship in thought and performance / Allen F. …”
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Ethnic historians and the mainstream : shaping the nation's immigration story /

Table of Contents: “…Tamura -- Americana / María Cristina Garcia -- Meddling in the American Dilemma : Examining Race, Migrations, and Identities from an Africana Transnational Perspective / Violet M. …”
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A History of Force Feeding Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909–1974 / by Miller, Ian

Table of Contents: “…‘A Prostitution of the Profession’?: The Ethical Dilemma of Suffragette Force Feeding, 1909-1914 --  2. …”
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Forensic Human Factors and Ergonomics : Case Studies and Analysis. by Wogalter, Michael S.

Table of Contents: “…Beginning with a Malfunctioning Fuel Gauge and Ending with a Pedestrian Casualty; 18. A Truck Driver's Dilemma; 19. ROPS, Seatbelts, and the Unexpected Rollover; 20. …”
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Public health ethics and practice

Table of Contents: “…The tragedy of XDR-TB / Ross Upshur -- The evaluation of public health initiatives on smoking and lung cancer: an ethical critique / Peter Allmark, Angela Tod and Jo Abbott -- Relevance of primary care bioethics committees in public health ethical practice in the community: an experience in an area of extreme poverty in Santiago, Chile / Marla Solari and Tatiana Escobar-Koch -- Unlinked anonymous blood testing for public health purposes: an ethical dilemma? / Jessica Datta and Anthony Kessell -- Constructing the obesity epidemic: loose science, money and public health / Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham -- Politics, ethics and evidence: immunisation and public health policy / Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham -- Avoiding mixed messages: HPV vaccines and the 'cure' for cervical cancer / Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham -- A call for clearer vaccine exemption typology to improve population health / Erica Sutton and Ross Upshur -- PART THREE. …”
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Reconciliation in Global Context : Why It Is Needed and How It Works /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : social and political reconciliation / Björn Krondorfer -- Interpersonal reconciliation with groups in conflict : Israelis and Palestinians, Germans and Jews / Björn Krondorfer -- Beyond a dilemma of apology : transforming (veteran) resistance to reconciliation in Northern Ireland and South Africa / Wilhelm Verwoerd and Alistair Little -- Societal reconciliation through psychosocial methods : the case of Zimbabwe / Joram Tarusarira -- Bringing faith into the practice of peace : paths to reconciliation of Bosnian Muslims / Zilka Spahic Siljak and Julianne Funk -- Reconciliation in the midst of strife : Palestine / Zeina M. …”
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Land, power and economics on the frontier of Upper Canada by Clarke, John, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 The Land Revealed: The Physical Background / 3 -- 2 Peace, Order, and Good Government: -- The Organization of a Landscape / 35 -- 3 Acquiring Indian Land in the Era -- of the Land Boards / 94 -- 4 European Land Acquisition after the First -- Land Board / 155 -- 5 The Market for Land: Sales in Essex to -- Mid-century / 208 -- 6 Buying on Credit: The Upper Canadian -- Dilemma / 264 -- 7 Who Were the Speculators and How Extensive -- Was Speculation? …”
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Religion and social justice for immigrants

Table of Contents: “…Religion and a standpoint theory of immigrant social justice / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ; Liberalism, religion, and the dilemma of immigrant rights in American political culture / Rhys H. …”
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Dark medicine rationalizing unethical medical research /

Table of Contents: “…Fox -- Strategies for survival versus accepting impermanence: rationalizing brain death and organ transplantation today / Tetsuo Yamaori -- The age of a "revolutionized human body" and the right to die / Yoshihiko Komatsu -- Why we must be prudent in research using human embryos: differing views of human dignity / Susumu Shimazono -- Eugenics, reproductive technologies, and the feminist dilemma in Japan / Miho Ogino -- Refusing utopia's bait: research, rationalizations, and Hans Jonas / William R. …”
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The drama of possibility experience as philosophy of culture / by McDermott, John J. (John Joseph), 1932-

Table of Contents: “…: the philosophy of William James -- Environing -- Poem : professional tin cup -- A relational world : the significance of the thought of William James and John Dewey for global culture -- Nature nostalgia and the city : an American dilemma -- Space, time, and touch : philosophical dimensions of urban consciousness -- Glass without feet : dimensions of urban aesthetics -- Turning -- Poem : waiting -- Why bother : is life worth living? …”
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Children living in transition : helping homeless and foster care children and families /

Table of Contents: “…/ Peggy Pearson -- The cats project : helping families land on their feet / Vance Hitchner -- Needs for the future -- A systems dilemma : intergenerational foster care and homelessness / Cheryl Zlotnick -- List of contributors -- Index.…”
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Rethinking historicism from Shakespeare to Milton

Table of Contents: “…/ Andrew Hadfield -- Theory and practice in historical method / Michael McKeon -- Limiting history / Marshall Grossman -- The politics of Renaissance historicism : Valla, Erasmus, Colet, and More / Thomas Fulton -- Historicizing satisfaction in Shakespeare's Othello / Heather Hirschfeld -- The new presentism and its discontents : listening to Eastward ho and Shakespeare's Tempest in dialogue / Paul Stevens -- In great men's houses : playing, patronage, and the performance of Tudor history / Lawrence Manley -- Medea's dilemma : politics and passion in Milton's Divorce tracts / Sharon Achinstein -- Milton, Foucault, and the new historicism / Martin Dzelzainis -- You shall be our generalless : fashioning warrior women from Henrietta Maria to Hillary Clinton / Laura Knoppers -- War times : seventeenth-century women's writing and its afterlives / Erin Murphy.…”
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Conversations on Russia reform from Yeltsin to Putin / by Desai, Padma

Table of Contents: “…Reform maximalists -- Boris Yeltsin : the wrecking ball -- Anatoly Chubais : the "neo-bolshevik" privatizer -- Yegor Gaidar : the shock therapist -- Boris Nemtsov : the political activist -- Mikhail Kasyanov : the pro-market prime minister -- Strobe Talbott : Bill Clinton's "Russia hand" -- Reform gradualists -- Grigory Yavlinsky : the permanent oppositionist -- Sergei Rogov : in search of checks and balances at home and abroad -- Nodari Simonia : the pro-Putin vote -- George Soros : the active philanthropist -- Five policy perspectives -- Sergei Dubinin : monopoly sector reform in progress -- Oleg Vyugin : monetary policy in action -- Boris Jordan : media man and investor -- Anatoly Vishnevsky : demographic dilemmas -- Jack Matlock, Jr. : the road ahead -- The role of history -- Martin Malia : history lessons -- Richard Pipes : the past in the present.…”
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