Syftet med studien är att undersöka socialarbetares position genom deras upplevelser av hur lagstiftning, kommunala riktlinjer samt egna värderingar harmonierar i arbetet med missbruksärenden. I studien besvaras frågor gällande hur socialarbetare upplever att deras värderingar och kompetens harmonierar med lagstiftning och kommunala riktlinjer men även hur socialarbetare hanterar eventuella spänningsförhållanden mellan lagstiftning, kommunala riktlinjer, egna värderingar samt klienters förväntningar. Uppsatsen bygger på sex semistrukturerade intervjuer med socialarbetare som i sitt dagliga arbete handlägger missbruksärenden och det insamlade materialet analyserades med hjälp av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Studiens resultat ger inte en lika negativ bild av socialarbetarnas upplevelser som tidigare forskning pekar på. Studien visar att socialarbetare upplever olika situationer där deras värderingar inte överensstämmer med kommunala riktlinjer eller lagstiftning. Exempel på situationer där socialarbetare upplever konflikter är hög arbetsbelastning, begränsat handlingsutrymme samt den rådande tvångslagstiftningen gällande missbruk. Beroende på vilken motstridighet som upplevs varierar hanteringen av denna. Hanteringen av motstridigheterna handlar i denna studie om hur socialarbetaren i situationen väljer att agera genom att exempelvis vara lojal och anpassa sig, protestera i någon form eller det sista alternativet, göra en sorti, vilket innebär att man lämnar organisationen. / The purpose of the study is to examine the position of social workers through their experiences of how legislation, municipal guidelines and their own values ​​harmonize in the work with substance abuse cases. The study answers questions not only regarding how social workers feel about their values ​​and skills harmonizing with legislation and municipal guidelines, but also how social workers handle any tensions between legislation, municipal guidelines, their own values ​​and clients' expectations. The essay is based on six semi-structured interviews with social workers who in their daily work handle substance abuse cases and the collected material was analyzed with the help of a qualitative content analysis. The results of the study do not give us a negative picture of the social workers' experiences as previous research points out. The study shows that social workers experience different situations where their values ​​do not comply with municipal guidelines or legislation. Examples of situations where social workers experience conflicts are a high workload, limited room for maneuver and the current coercive legislation regarding abuse. Depending on the contradiction experienced, the handling of this varies. The management of the contradictions in this study is about how the social worker in the situation chooses to act by, for example, being loyal and adapting, protesting in some form or the last alternative, making a sortie, which means leaving the organization.

This thesis discusses the issues of public guardianship in the current practical and legal context. It deals with human rights, the question of the limitation of incapacitation, and the conditions that must be met. I present here, what the different types of guardians are, or what are the rights and obligations of a guardian. I think about the ethical issues in conjunction with guardianship, that relate to human dignity and freedom. In conclusion, through talks I'm trying to look into practice of public guardianship and determine what problems the public guardians deal with.

My work analyses the legislation changes in the area of social and legal protection of children in the Czech Republic that have been introduced over the last two years. This work focuses on impacts of these changes in the practice of transferring children to substitute care as well as ethical aspects directly connected with this process. Laws impacting the social and legal protection of children are being compared in order to understand the legal rights of children. The consequences of the legislative changes have a direct effect on the processes of handing children to substitute care. The work is not only concerned with the practical impacts, but also with the ethical side of the problem which was identified as the most important in my thesis. Case reports from my own practice provide a complementary evidence to the reader to better understand the process of placement of children into substitute care both at professional and ethical levels.

D’une juridiction à l’autre, les modèles législatifs encadrant la procréation médicalement assistée (PMA) diffèrent, allant de l’absence de directives nationales à des agences réglementaires supervisant les cliniques de fertilité. De 2010 à 2015, le Québec finançait les services de PMA pour ses résidents sans définir de critères d’accessibilité. Alors que l’adoption de critères d’accessibilité représente un défi éthique complexe, les candidats souhaitant obtenir des services de PMA peuvent être confrontés à un refus par des professionnels sur la base d’une évaluation subjective. Déterminer les critères présentement utilisés par les professionnels en l’absence de directives législatives peut éclaircir les décisions difficiles auxquelles ils font face quotidiennement. Un tel travail peut aussi informer la réflexion éthique quant à l’étude normative de directives dans ce domaine. La présente étude décrit les critères d’accessibilité utilisés par les professionnels travaillant dans des cliniques de fertilité, privées ou publiques, au Québec. Des entrevues semi-dirigées ont été réalisées avec quatre médecins et quatre psychologues. Une recension des écrits a permis de regrouper les critères reportés dans la littérature selon leurs similitudes, puis d’analyser les entrevues selon ces regroupements. De façon générale, les professionnels du Québec utilisent des critères similaires à ceux des professionnels d’autres pays, mais des critères non recensés dans la littérature ont aussi été utilisés par les participants. Les critères utilisés les plus communs étaient la relation conjugale, l’état de santé mentale ainsi que l’âge des candidats. Une découverte importante est que les professionnels n’utilisaient pas un seul critère pour refuser un candidat, mais plutôt une combinaison de facteurs en tenant compte de son contexte de vie. Une autre découverte intéressante est l’utilisation du « rejet temporaire », c’est-à-dire le report des traitements à un meilleur moment pour les candidats selon le professionnel. Les entrevues ont permis de déterminer que les professionnels agissent en tant que gatekeepers et doivent souvent prendre des décisions qui dépassent l’évaluation clinique en se basant sur un jugement personnel. Ce rôle n’est pas facile et les participants ont exprimé des doutes et des remises en question de leurs propres décisions. / From 2010 to 2015, Quebec offered comprehensive public funding for assisted reproductive technologies (ART), allowing access to any female resident ‘of reproductive age’ without specifying eligibility criteria. Other jurisdictions have different models ranging from absence of criteria to regulatory agencies overseeing fertility clinics. While establishing eligibility criteria is an ethically daunting task, candidates wishing to access ART may be confronted with professionals who reject them based on subjective criteria. Exploring what criteria are used in practice, in the absence of regulatory guidance, can shed light on the challenges faced by professionals and their decision-making needs. It can also inform our ethical reflection regarding the normative positions required for establishing guidelines in this sensitive area. This qualitative study describes eligibility criteria used by healthcare professionals working in fertility clinics in Quebec, based on semi-structured interviews conducted with four physicians and four psychologists working in both public and private clinics. An extensive literature review on the topic allowed the separation of criteria into groups under overarching themes, which were then used to analyze the interviews. Findings suggests that overall, professionals in Quebec are using similar criteria to those used by professionals in other countries. They also referred to criteria not found in the literature, which required the creation of new groups for analysis. Among the criteria used by interviewees, the researchers found that the relationship status was the most common, followed by candidates’ mental health and their age. A major finding was that professionals never considered one isolated criterion to reject candidates, but rather based their decision on a combination of factors while considering the context of the candidate’s life. Another important element was the repeated phenomenon of “temporary rejection”, i.e. a professional postponing treatment until a later date describing it as a “better time” for candidates who did not seem ready to undergo treatments. Overall, decisions were made by analyzing the context in which candidates were living and in which the prospective child would be raised. The interviews lead to the conclusion that professionals act as gatekeepers and often need to make normative decisions that go beyond a clinical assessment, based on a personal judgement call. These decisions were not easily taken and participants expressed doubts and decisional conflict.

Unmanned aircraft vehicles were primarily used for military purposes and are still used for them. Not only for this reason is their introduction for humanitarian aims disputable, raising various dilemmas. Supporters of humanitarian drones put emphasis on/emphasize their speed, security, data amount and the possible employment of new technology in extreme environments. Critics of humanitarian technologization stress the loss of neutrality and impartiality, politicization and militarization of humanitarian aid. Consensus does not even exist amongst academics in the field. Contemporary literature is primarily targeted on the controversy of dual-usage of UAVs and on potential technical advantages with emphasis on immediate assistance. The literature dealing with ethical issues of humanitarian drones in connection to humanitarian and development practice outside the conflict zone is almost absent, and only marginally or indirectly treats the issue. The aim of this paper is to analyse potential advantages and disadvantages of humanitarian drones' proliferation within the theoretical framework of The Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations in Disaster Relief, which deals with basic dilemmas in humanitarian aid. This thesis does not...