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191	Ability and Abnormality West, Jessica 01 January 2016 (has links) This thesis addresses questions relating to perceptions of abilities and abnormalities found in everyday life. Abilities in this paper range from a total lack of ability to function in extreme disability to a level of ability expected by society to enhanced and radically enhanced abilities and their place in the realm of abnormality. We begin by establishing the differences between abilities and enhancements. Following this is a discussion regarding the ethical concerns of human enhancement. After this we turn to a discussion of abnormality and the social experience of abnormality. These discussions lead into establishing a basis for how many abilities are considered abnormal. This is then followed by a discussion that specifically addresses whether or not individuals who voluntarily undergo non-therapeutic enhancement may be subject to oppressive measures. Thesis University of North Florida UNF Dissertations Dissertations Academic -- UNF -- Philosophy philosophy bioethics biomedical ethics visibility ethics gene therapy genetics therapy therapeutic oppression discrimination violence enhancement Foucault Sandel Savulescu Miah Garland-Thomson Nussbaum ability disability disability studies human enhancement technology transhumanism science abnormality Continental Philosophy Ethics and Political Philosophy Feminist Philosophy Other Philosophy
192	Euthanasia, the Ethics of Patient Care and the Language of Propaganda Krapf, Elizabeth Maria 01 January 2012 (has links) This thesis is an examination of euthanasia, eugenics, the ethic of patient care, and linguistic propaganda in the Second World War. The examination of euthanasia discusses not only the history and involvement of the facility at Hadamar in Germany, but also discuss the current euthanasia debate. Euthanasia in World War II arose out of the Nazi desire to cleanse the Reich and was greatly influenced by the American eugenics movement of the early 20th century. Eugenics was built up to include anyone considered undesirable and unworthy of life and killed many thousands of people before the invasion of allied troops in 1944. Paramount to euthanasia is forced sterilization, the ethic of patient care, and how the results of the research conducted on euthanasia victims before their deaths should be used. The Nazis were able to change the generally accepted terms that researchers use to describe their experiments and this change affected how modern doctors and researchers use the terms in current research. This thesis includes research conducted in Germany and the United States from varied resources. Ethics and Political Philosophy German Language and Literature Military and Veterans Studies Other Psychiatry and Psychology
193	Antithetical Commentaries on X, Y and the Disruption of Being Rocha, Eva 01 January 2016 (has links) Through discursive essays and poetic narrative, Antithetical Commentaries on X, Y and the Disruption of Being explores the tenuous relationship between modes of measurement and the struggle for human relevance in the post-contemporary digital age. In the introductory essay, “Not the Feather, but the Bird”, I give an overview of the inherent problems of object-oriented ontology, and how it relates to aesthetics and social issues of our times. In the Developmental Overview, I detail how I developed my installation approach and techniques, particularly with regard to the three-way dynamic of the artist:work:viewer relationship and how it can encourage a ‘transgression’ that leads to the possibility of a transformative awareness of being. Subsequently, I present a series of ‘antithetical’ commentaries that neither explain nor expand the installation, rather, they create a non-binary duality that, through an entirely non-linear anti-narrative, work to erode the overlay of personal, civic and collective grids present in the memory space/time referenced in the video, TAG. Finally, in “Grid: Towards a Transgressive Humanism.” I propose a path by which installation art might serve to create transgressive opportunities for viewers, rather than the transcendence sought through religious rituals, which often reinforce stigmas, fears and authoritarian social dynamics, or worse, the reductive loop, of many contemporary approaches to art which proclaim their detachment in wordy displays, essentially leading to a form of aesthetic nihilism. This Transgressive Humanism is not presented as a dogma, but rather a revitalization of the work as a vessel of possibilities, an agent of creative growth for the artist and the viewer. transgressive humanism cultural techniques grid post contemporary art Contemporary Art Cultural History Esthetics Ethics and Political Philosophy Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Feminist Philosophy Fine Arts Latin American History Modern Art and Architecture Modern Literature Museum Studies Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Mind Photography Social and Behavioral Sciences Theory and Criticism
194	A CASE FOR EMPATHY: IMMIGRATION IN SPANISH CONTEMPORARY MEDIA, MUSIC, FILM, AND NOVELS Icleanu, Constantin C. 01 January 2017 (has links) This dissertation analyzes the representations of immigrants from North Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe in Spain. As engaged scholarship, it seeks to better the portrayal of immigrants in the mass media through the study of literature, film, and music about immigration spanning from the year 2000 to 2016. Because misconceptions continue to propagate in the media, this dissertation works to counteract anti-immigrant, xenophobic representations as well as balance out overly positive and orientalized portrayal of immigrants with a call to recognize immigrants as human beings who deserve the same respect, dignity, and rights as any other citizen. Chapter 1 examines and analyzes the background to immigration in Spain by covering demographics, the mass media, and political theories related to immigration. Chapter 2 analyzes Spanish music about immigration through Richard Rorty’s social theory of ‘sentimental education’ as a meaningful way to redescribe marginalized minorities as full persons worthy of rights and dignity. Chapter 3 investigates the representation of immigrants in Spanish filmic shorts and cinema. Lastly, Chapter 4 demonstrates how literary portrayals of immigrants written by undocumented immigrants can give rise to strong characters that avoid victimization and rear empathy in their readers in order to affect a social change that minimizes cruelty. Immigration Spain Immigration Law Empathy Media Social Change African Studies Broadcast and Video Studies Critical and Cultural Studies Ethics and Political Philosophy Immigration Law Latin American Literature Latin American Studies Legal Theory Mass Communication Modern Literature Race and Ethnicity Spanish Literature Theory and Philosophy Visual Studies
195	Role Tension in the Academy: A Philosophical Inquiry into Faculty Teaching and Research Michaud, Nicholas 01 January 2015 (has links) This dissertation seeks to understand the conjunction of faculty roles as teachers and as researchers. This understanding is pursued through philosophical analysis. Discourse ethics, in particular, is used as a framework by which to best understand the roles played by faculty and if the roles of teacher and researcher are, in fact, commensurable. The purpose of the work is two-fold: 1) to develop a construct that may be used by future researchers to better understand the roles played by faculty, and 2) to suggest a best-construct that enables future researchers to propose how actual lived roles should be instantiated in the world. The dissertation reviews a series of university handbooks, professional association ethical guidelines, and philosophical arguments to establish how the roles of faculty are best understood. The investigation illuminates the tensions at the heart of faculty roles. This tension is not definitionally embedded in the roles of faculty as teacher and researcher. Rather, the tension emerges from the failure of institutions to fully actualize faculty roles as normatively grounded in human communicative interaction. As a result, the work suggests that in order to best resolve the cognitive dissonance that may be experienced as a result of role ambiguity, faculty should engage in a process of self-reflection and community dialectic in order to best determine how “faculty” can be actualized in a way that best benefits all stakeholders. Thesis University of North Florida UNF Dissertations Dissertations Academic -- UNF-- Education Roles role theory Professoriate teaching SoTL research philosophy philosophical anayisis faculty roles care ethics Educational Leadership Educational Sociology Ethics and Political Philosophy Higher Education Higher Education and Teaching Philosophy Philosophy of Language Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Sociology Work, Economy and Organizations
196	Development of a Guideline for Hospice Staff, Patients, and Families on Appropriate Opioid Use Alexander-Goreá, Trenika 01 January 2017 (has links) There is an identified problem with patients receiving suboptimal pain management at a hospice agency in the northwestern United States. At this agency, undertreatment of pain is prevalent. Evidence indicates that this may be a result of a lack of guidelines, education, and knowledge of appropriate prescribing. Known barriers to the correct prescription and administration of potent opioids in the hospice setting include prevailing beliefs, knowledge, skills, and attitudes, all of which can impact care negatively. Contextually, hospice principles mandate patient comfort and caregiver involvement in continuous quality improvement, which includes adequate and informed pain management. Moreover, hospice metrics demand requisite knowledge, skills, and attitudes for optimal care, including pain management at the end of life. The Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice (ACE) star model was used to guide the development of an evidence-based, guideline-supported educational program that will improve pain management at the hospice agency when implemented. The purpose of this project was to use transdisciplinary expertise and team collaboration to develop the program and then to conduct a formative and summative evaluation utilizing experts to prepare the guidelines and process for implementation. Ten experts reviewed the guideline, the educational materials, the process, and the evaluation plan and conducted reviews using the AGREE II tool. The panel of experts agreed within the 6 AGREE domains. Future implementation of this guideline, translation process, and evaluation tool will impact social change through the empowerment of the clinical staff, patients, and caregivers to provide the best pain control and comfort at end of life, a vulnerable time for all patients. comfort care practitioners dying evidence-based practice EBP death theory concept guideline transdisciplinary multidiciplinary ethical end-of-life care EOLC Appropriate Opioid Use hospice hospice care palliative care palliate palliation end-of-life EOL actively dying opioid epidemic opioid crisis opioids prescribing opioids and practitioners pain control pain management clinical practice guideline hospice guidance Ethics and Political Philosophy Nursing
197	From Self-Doubt To Inner Peace: An Ethnographic Narrative Fabro, Dakota 01 January 2019 (has links) In the midst of honing my craft as an educator, this ethnographic narrative was done for the purposes of taking an introspective look at the many moving parts of becoming an effective educator as well as developing an ethnographic view of the students who will pass through my classroom during my tenure as an educator. This ethnographic narrative examines my individual background, the educational spaces within which I find myself, communities I serve, and the students I was given the privilege of building relationships with within the classroom. This project serves as an in-depth analysis of the implicit biases one might hold as a teacher and a vehicle for continual introspection on my part as an effective and culturally-aware educator. Accessibility Asian American Studies Asian History Child Psychology Curriculum and Instruction Curriculum and Social Inquiry Developmental Psychology Educational Leadership Educational Psychology Elementary Education Elementary Education and Teaching Ethics and Political Philosophy Ethnic Studies Feminist Philosophy Gender Equity in Education Gifted Education History of the Pacific Islands Liberal Studies Multicultural Psychology Philosophy of Mind School Psychology Social Psychology Special Education and Teaching Theory and Philosophy United States History Women's Studies
198	Stay Woke Williams, Langston A 20 December 2017 (has links) Throughout the pages of my thesis, I comprehensively analyze the processes, intentions, and production of my thesis film Stay Woke. My examination will exhaustively probe every stage of the film from development to preproduction to production to postproduction and beyond. Individual aspects of this process including writing, casting, locations, production design, cinematography, directing, budgeting, scheduling, and postproduction workflows will be detailed. As I make elaborations in each section, I will explain my learning experiences from each day’s new tasks, challenges, and lessons. All of these things will be framed with regards to the overall goal and themes of the film. Short film Stay Woke police brutality Langston Williams Spike Lee Radio African American Studies American Film Studies American Popular Culture Broadcast and Video Studies Civic and Community Engagement Civil Rights and Discrimination Communication Technology and New Media Critical and Cultural Studies Ethics and Political Philosophy Ethnic Studies Film and Media Studies Film Production Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Other Film and Media Studies Politics and Social Change Race and Ethnicity Screenwriting Social and Cultural Anthropology Television Visual Studies
199	Stasi Brainwashing in the GDR 1957 - 1990 Solbrig, Jacob H., Solbrig, Jacob Hagen 20 December 2017 (has links) This thesis examines the methods used by the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), more commonly known as the Stasi, or East German secret police, for extraction of information from citizens of the German Democratic Republic for the purpose of espionage and covert operations inside East Germany, as it pertains to the deliberate brainwashing of East German citizens. As one of the most efficient intelligence agencies to ever exist, the Stasi’s main purpose was to monitor the population, gather intelligence, and collect or turn informants. They used brainwashing techniques to control the people of the GDR, keeping the populace paralyzed with fear and paranoia. By surrounding themselves with a network of informants they prevented actions against the dictatorial communist regime. Using the video testimonies of former prisoners, and former confidential informants who worked closely with and collaborated with Stasi agents, in combination with periodicals and previous historical studies, this work argues that the East German Police State’s brainwashing techniques had long and lasting consequences both for German citizens, and for the psychiatric health of former GDR citizens. The scope and breadth of the techniques and data compiled for use by the Stasi were exhaustive, and the repercussions of their use are still being felt and discovered twenty five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. This study aims to show the lasting effects brainwashing had on former informants and the Stasi’s victims. Stasi brainwashing cold war spy kgb psychological Applied Ethics Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms Bioethics and Medical Ethics Continental Philosophy Cultural History Eastern European Studies Ethics and Political Philosophy European History European Languages and Societies Experimental Analysis of Behavior Intellectual History Modern Literature Multicultural Psychology Oral History Other German Language and Literature Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Other Political Science Philosophy of Mind Political History Politics and Social Change Psychiatry Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Psychological Phenomena and Processes Social and Cultural Anthropology Social History Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Theory and Criticism Theory and Philosophy
200	The Buddhist Coleridge: Creating Space for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner within Buddhist Romantic Studies Pacheco, Katie 27 June 2013 (has links) The popularization of academic spaces that combine Buddhist philosophy with the literature of the Romantic period – a discipline I refer to as Buddhist Romantic Studies – have exposed the lack of scholarly attention Samuel Taylor Coleridge and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner have received within such studies. Validating Coleridge’s right to exist within Buddhist Romantic spheres, my thesis argues that Coleridge was cognizant of Buddhism through historical and textual encounters. To create a space for The Rime within Buddhist Romantic Studies, my thesis provides an interpretation of the poem that centers on the concept of prajna, or wisdom, as a vital tool for cultivating the mind. Focusing on prajna, I argue that the Mariner’s didactic story traces his cognitive voyage from ignorance to enlightenment. By examining The Rime within the framework of Buddhism, readers will also be able to grasp the importance of cultivating the mind and transcending ignorance. Romanticism Romantic poets Buddhism Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner dualism Ecocriticism Zen meditation transcendence albatross animal rights environmental rights green anthropocentrism prajna wisdom enlightenment ignorance ethics ahimsa Buddha Buddhist Arts and Humanities Chinese Studies Christianity Comparative Methodologies and Theories English Language and Literature Ethics and Political Philosophy Ethics in Religion Literature in English, British Isles Other Arts and Humanities Other English Language and Literature Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Other Religion Philosophy Philosophy of Mind Practical Theology Religion

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