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Pavadinimas: AIDS AND THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Autoriai: EDITOR LAWRENCE O. GOSTIN
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ISBN: 0-300-04719-3
Brūkšninis kodas: 4036701
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     The book provides an up-to-date and accessible analysis of the challenges that AIDS presents to our health care workers and institutions and thus will be an invaluable resource for meeting those challenges in a fair, compassionate, and knowledgeable manner.


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Pavadinimas: BIOETHICS IN THE CLINIC: HIPPOCRATIC REFLECTIONS
Autoriai: GRANT R. GILLETT, M.B., Ch.G., D.Phil.
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ISBN: 0-8018-7843-8
Brūkšninis kodas: 003074958413
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Pavadinimas: BIOETHICS: A RETURN TO FUNDAMENTALS
Autoriai: BERNARD GERT, CHARLES M. CULVER, K. DANNER CLOUSER
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ISBN: 0-19-511430-2
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075227365
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Pavadinimas: BIOETHICS: A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH
Autoriai: BERNARD GERT, CHARLES M. CULVER, K. DANNER CLOUSER
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ISBN: 0-19-515906-3
Brūkšninis kodas: 003076427214
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     This book is the result of more than thirty years of collaboration among its authors. It uses the systematic account of our common morality developed by one of its authors to provide a useful foundation for dealing with the moral problems and disputes that occur in the practice of medicine. The analyses of impartiality, rationality, and morality as a public system not only explain why some bioethical questions, such as the moral accept­ability of abortion, cannot be resolved, but also provide a method for determining the correct answer for those occasions when a bioethical question has a unique correct answer. This new edition includes an entire chapter that addresses the controversial issue of abortion within the authors' distinct framework....

    


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Pavadinimas: BIOGRAPHIES OF REMEDIES: DRUGS, MEDICINES AND CONTRACEPTIVES IN DUTCH AND ANGLO-AMERICAN HEALING CULTURES
Autoriai: EDITED BY M. GIJSWIJT-HOFSTRA, G. M. CAN HETEREN, E. M. TANSEY
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ISBN: 90-420-1577-2
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075227358
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Pavadinimas: BIOMEDICAL ETHICS FUNDAMENTALS OF PHILOSOPHY SERIES
Autoriai: WALTER GLANNON
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ISBN: 0-19-514431-7
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075097708
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     "Gannon`s clear and lively use of contemporary cases and policies in biomedical ethics will appeal to health care practitioners as well as to bioethicists. Most important, it will capture the interest of students who are routinely confronted with biomedical issues in their everyday personal and professional lives. Glannon will help readers set their moral compass straight enough to navigate the sometimes choppy waters of health care." - Rosemarie Tong, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
     "A well-written and informative introduction to the topic of biomedical ethics. The author is familiar not only with the philosophical literature, but is also knowledgeable about the practice of medicine as it occurs today. A refreshing change from many of the current texts used in philosophy classes." - Scott Wilson, Wright State University

     Today, advances in medicine and biotechnology occur at a rapid pace and have a profound impact on our lives. Mechanical devices can sustain an injured person's life indefinitely. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the body and brain can reveal disorders before symptoms appear. Genetic testing of embryos can predict whether people will have diseases earlier or later in life. It may even become possible to clone human beings. These and other developments raise difficult ethical questions. Biomedical Ethics is an engaging philosophical introduction to the most important ethical positions and arguments in six areas of biomedicine: the patient-doctor relationship, medical research on humans, reproductive rights and technologies, genetics, medical decisions at the end of life, and the allocation of scarce medical resources. Concisely capturing the historical, contemporary, and future-oriented aspects of the field, author Walter Glannon discusses both perennial issues in medicine, such as doctors' duties to patients, and recent and emerging issues in scientific innovation, including gene therapy and cloning. Ideal for under graduate courses in contemporary moral problems, introduction to ethics, and introduction to bioethics, Biomedical Ethics is accessible to students who have little or no background in ethical theory, medicine, or biotechnology.


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Pavadinimas: CAUSING DEATH AND SAVING LIVES
Autoriai: JONATHAN GLOVER
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ISBN: 0-14-013479-4
Brūkšninis kodas: 4036705
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     "An excellent example of the way in which moral philosophy can illuminate, and be illuminated by, practical problems" - Journal of Medical Ethics
     Questions about killing are among the most acute of moral problems. Often, however, our thinking about them is confused and clouded with emotion, so that someone who supports capital punishment may well condemn abortion, using diametrically opposed arguments in each case.
     Jonathan Glover examines the arguments we use in prohibiting or justifying the killing of others and considers the practical problems that we have to face. He looks at the moral difficulties posed by the advance of modern medicine, at the theories of capital punishment and, turning to wider social and political concerns, at the justifications advanced for assassination, revolution and war. Throughout, humanity and logic combine to make this a clear, concise and necessary book for all concerned with a broad range of vital contemporary issues.


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Pavadinimas: CONTEMPORARY READINGS IN BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
Autoriai: WALTER GLANNON
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ISBN: 0-15-507544-6
Brūkšninis kodas: 003074958437
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     Ethics, as a branch of philosophy, can be traced back at least as far as the ancient Greeks, and so, too, can biomedical ethics be said to have its beginning with Hippocrates, the first physician. But Hippocrates would be astounded at the advances in medical science, at the ethical dilemmas now confronting the practitioners of modern medicine.
     While acknowledging the tradition, Walter Glannon's book makes us fully aware that biomedical ethics is a new field of study that is subject to many changes. The result is this new collection of readings, capturing the essence of the field here and now.
Major features include:
� Contemporary emphasis. 37 of the 42 selections were published in the 1990's
� Six major areas of biomedical ethics are covered:

  1. The Physician-Patient Relationship
  2. Research Involving Human Subjects
  3. Reproductive Rights and Technologies
  4. Genetics
  5. Death and Dying
  6. The Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources

� Significant coverage of feminist and cross-cultural perspectives
� The general introduction surveys the history of western medicine and the evolution of biomedical ethics
� Discussion questions, legal cases, and suggestions for further reading are meant to enlarge the student's understanding


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Pavadinimas: CULTURES OF CHILD HEALTH IN BRITAIN AND THE NETHERLANDS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Autoriai: EDITED BY MARIJKE GIJSWIJT-HOFSTRA AND HILARY MARLAND
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ISBN: 90-420-1044-4
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075227167
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     The health and welfare of children became an area of concern and action in the early decades of the twentieth century. This concern would develop an ever broader remit during the course of the century, moving from anxiety about high death rates, physical health and the 'unfit', to embrace all children and the mental health and the psychological well-being of individuals.
     This volume emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch Workshop held at the University of Warwick in July 1999, and is the first book to explore child health in the twentieth century in a comparative perspective, focussing on such issues as the link between child health and citizenship, the impact of ideas concerning degeneracy, socialisation, consumerism and children's rights, and the role of the family, state and experts in mediating child health.
     The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine provides a regular and active forum for the publication of research into the history of medicine and health care in  all their branches in various cultures and all time periods.


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Pavadinimas: CULTURES OF NEURASTHENIA FROM BEARD TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Autoriai: EDITED BY MARIJKE GIJSWIJT-HOFSTRA AND ROY PORTER
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ISBN: 90-420-0921-7
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075227228
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     Neurasthenia, meaning nerve weakness, was 'invented' in the United States as a disorder of modernity, caused by the fast pace of urban life. Soon after, from the early 1880s onwards, this modern disease crossed the Atlantic. Neurasthenia
became much less 'popular' in Britain or the Netherlands than in Germany. Neurasthenia's heyday continued into the first decade of the twentieth century. The label referred to conditions similar to those currently labelled as chronic fatigue syndrome. Why this rise and fall of neurasthenia, and why these differences in popularity? This book, which emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch-German conference held in June 2000, explores neurasthenia's manysided history from a comparative perspective.


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Pavadinimas: CURRENT CONTROVERSIES IN THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Autoriai: KAREN F. GREIF, JON F. MERZ
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ISBN: 978-0-262-572392
Brūkšninis kodas: 003076433970
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     Why write this book? Technological advances in biology have enormous potential impacts on our lives, and there is a need for citizens and policymakers alike to under­stand the scientific, political, and ethical issues that underlie the policy decisions that might be made. Many issues arising from new advances in biology do not have simple answers. Conflicting goals and beliefs influence the discussions that are asso­ciated with the development of policy, and compromise between conflicting views may be difficult. This book is intended as an introduction to science policy. Addi­tional readings are suggested for those who wish to dig deeper into their areas of interest...

    


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Pavadinimas: DEFINING RIGHT AND WRONG IN BRAIN SCIENCE: ESSENTIAL READINGS IN NEUROETHICS
Autoriai: EDITED BY WALTER GLANNON, PH.D
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ISBN: 1-932-59425-6
Brūkšninis kodas: 003076434106
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Pavadinimas: ETHICAL ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL MEDICINE A GUIDE TO SELF-EVALUATION
Autoriai: GLENN C. GRABER, PH.D. ALFRED D. BEASLEY, M.D. JOHN A. EADDY, M.D.
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ISBN: 0-8067-0711-9
Brūkšninis kodas: 29035
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     The textbook that has been written by this expert team is highly practical to physicians in its approach and content. It is not only a philosophical exercise in critical reasoning and a lexicon of human values, but it is infused with a personal dedication that emanates warmth as well as light from its pages. Such works may help us physicians in our efforts to make caring decisions for our patients and ourselves.


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Pavadinimas: ETHICS AND EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE: FALLIBILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY IN CLINICAL SCIENCE
Autoriai: KENNETH W. GOODMAN
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ISBN: 0-521-79653-9
Brūkšninis kodas: 003076433666
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     "At its core, evidence-based practice rests on a supposition which, while probably true, itself has unclear evidentiary support."

     A quarter-century of outcomes research, systematic reviews and research syn­thesis have reshaped medicine and other health professions, even as they have been subjected to vigorous and vehement criticism. The growth of evidence-based medicine has occurred against a backdrop of health care reform, managed care, cost contain­ment and quality improvement, and clinicians have been urged to adopt the rigors of science while remaining true to their "clinical judgment." This tension - between efforts to make medical practice more scientific and the suspicions of many clinicians - has caused one of the greatest practical and ethical challenges in the history of the health professions. This incisive book reviews the history and conceptual origins of evidence-based practice and discusses key ethical issues that arise in clinical practice, public health and health policy.

     Essential reading for all physicians, and practitioners in epidemiology and public health, it will also be suitable as a text in medical and public health school courses on evidence-based practice.


Pavadinimas: EXPANDING HORIZONS IN BIOETHICS
Autoriai: EDITED BY ARTHUR W. GALSTON, CHRISTIANA Z. PEPPARD
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ISBN: 1-4020-3061-4
Brūkšninis kodas: 003076427245
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     What are the resources and needs, the strengths and the vulnerabilities of patients, of society, or of nature? How do we evaluate the societal potential of scientific discovery?

     It is fairly well assured that we are influencing the terms of existence of many inhabitants of this planet, from flora to fauna to humans. Moreover, history has shown that while technologies can be used neutrally, they can be (and have been) used to the great benefit - or the great detriment - of human life and the fate of the world as a whole. How various types of knowledge and technological ability will be deployed is up to us, individually and collectively. How such information and ability should be deployed, and for what reasons, are questions at the core of bioethical inquiry. These are the "expanding horizons in bioethics" to which this volume refers....

    


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Pavadinimas: EXPANDING HORIZONS IN BIOETHICS
Autoriai: EDITED BY ARTHUR W. GALSTON, CHRISTIANA Z. PEPPARD
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ISBN: 1-4020-3061-4
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075227402
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Pavadinimas: GUT FEELINGS CHRONIC ILLNESS AND THE SEARCH FOR HEALING PROBING BOUNDARIES
Autoriai: CATHERINE GARRET
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ISBN: 90-420-1654-X
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075227099
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     What does 'healing' mean for people who have chronic illnesses without a known cure? Gut Feelings shows readers a new way to explore the problem of suffering, seeking answers in sociology, philosophy and theology. Catherine Garrett's autobiographical narrative links physical, emotional and spiritual experience with intellectual discovery. It is written for people in pain and for all who hope to alleviate suffering. As a profound meditation on life with illness, this book shows that academic and personal wisdom, offered in the form of stories, can make healing itself more widely accessible....
    


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Pavadinimas: MORAL PROBLEMS IN MEDICINE second edition
Autoriai: Edited by SAMUEL GOROVITZ, RUTH MACKLIN, ANDREW L. JAMETON, JOHN M. O`CONNOR, SUSAN SHERWIN
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ISBN: 0-13-600742-2
Brūkšninis kodas: 2932383
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Anotacija:      Taking care of the hateful patient? Should doctors tell the truth? Active and passive euthanasia. Genetic screening: For better or worse? A definition of irreversible coma. The right to health care. Organ transplants: Ethical and legal problems.
     These are but a few examples of the broad range of writings that make up the extensively revised, up-to-date second edition of this important collection. They represent the thinking of early as well as current philosophers, lawyers, theologians, medical doctors, psychologists, and sociologists and deal with the inescapable ethical problems resulting from the changing nature of medical practice today and in the future.
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Pavadinimas: NEUROSCIENCE AND THE LAW: BRAIN, MIND, AND THE SCALES OF JUSTICE
Autoriai: EDITED BY BRENT GARLAND
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ISBN: 1-932594-04-3
Brūkšninis kodas: 003076427191
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PART   I Neuroscience and the Law: A Report

- Framing the Issues

- Monitoring and Imaging the Brain

- Modifying the Brain

- Crosscutting Legal Issues

- Future Directions

PART   II Commissioned Papers

- Free Will in the Twenty-first Century:

- A Discussion of Neuroscience and the Law

- Neuroscience Developments and the Law

- Prediction, Litigation, Privacy, and Property: Some Possible Legal and Social Implications of Advances in Neuroscience

- New Neuroscience, Old Problems


Pavadinimas: NEW DIMENSIONS IN BIOETHICS SCIENCE, ETHICS AND THE FORMULATION OF PUBLIC PUBLICY
Autoriai: EDITED BY ARTHUR W. GALSTON, EMILY G. SHURR
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ISBN: 0-7923-7249-2
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075102839
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     In the last three decades bioethics has matured into a field of study with several areas of concentration including medical ethics, environmental ethics and. more recently, genetic ethics. For reasons related to both the developmental history of the subject and to the poignancy of the problems presented, most textbooks and collections of essays have dealt with only a single area, medical ethics. In fact to many not in the field, the word bioethics has become synonymous with medical ethics. The aim of this collection of essays, entitled NEW DIMENSIONS IN BIOETHICS: Science. Ethics and the Formulation of Public Policy is to enlarge this restrictive vision of the field as it is usually studied at universities. By combining essays relevant to medical ethics with companion essays on environmental ethics and genetic ethics the book emphasizes similarities in the methods of analysis used in diverse bioethical problems whether dealing with genes, with people or the environment. In this way NEW DIMENSIONS IN BIOETHICS: Science. Ethics and the Formulation of Public Policy hopes to contribute to the intellectual unity of the subject and to suggest changes in the way bioethics can be taught and studied at both the graduate and undergraduate level.


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Pavadinimas: NO SMOKING THE ETHICAL ISSUES
Autoriai: ROBERT E. GOODIN
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ISBN: 0-226-30300-4
Brūkšninis kodas: 4202184
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     "An excellent study of exceptionally broad interest. It speaks to issues at the intersection of political theory, law, empirical social science, and philosophy; and it does so by focusing on a concrete policy question, one that ranks among the most interesting and sharply disputed of our time. Hands down, the best work yet on the complex issues raised by government regulation of smoking." - Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School.


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Pavadinimas: REASONABLE CARE GRANT GILLET
Autoriai: GRANT GILLET
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ISBN: 1-85399-072-8
Brūkšninis kodas: 4202176
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     If any discipline poses questions of life and death it is medical ethics. Where the availability of treatment is limited, who should get priority? Should doctors force treatment on unwilling patients? How can we judge whether a life is worth living, and who should decide?
     Reasonable care helps us approach these questions by offering a survey and critique of contemporary medical ethics, but it does so by drawing heavily on actual practice and the problems faced by doctors, nurses and their patients.


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Pavadinimas: THE ETHICS OF MEDICAL INVOLVEMENT IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION
Autoriai: JOSEPH B.R. GAIE
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ISBN: 1-4020-1764-2
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075047826
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     This book examines the extremely important issue of the consistency of medical involvement in ending lives in medicine, law and war. It uses philosophical theory to show why medical doctors may be involved at different stages of the capital punishment process. The author uses the theories of Emmanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill, combined with Gerwith's principle of generic consistency, to concretize ethics in capital punishment practice. This book does not discuss the moral justification of capital punishment, but rather looks at the possible forms of involvement and shows why consistency would demand medical involvement. The author takes a general approach, using arguments that may apply universally. The book broaches different academic fields, such as medicine, ethics, business, politics and defense. The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Capital Punishment is of interest to students, teachers, lecturers and researchers working in the areas of capital punishment, medical, legal and business ethics, and political philosophy.


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Pavadinimas: THE LAW OF BIOETHICS: INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY AND SOCIAL REGULATION
Autoriai: MARSHA GARRISON, CARL E. SCHNEIDER
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ISBN: 0-314-25221-5
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075097616
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Pavadinimas: WHAT IS A PERSON
Autoriai: Edited by MICHAEL F. GOODMAN
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ISBN: 0-89603-034-2
Brūkšninis kodas: 4036682
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     "Reflects the perspectives of nursing, philosophy, medicine, history, theology, law and public health. The authors have avoided use of discipline-specific technical language. Thus, these essays are accessible to those in various disciplines as well as interested laypersons." - Journal of Moral Education.


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