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Why the West Should Help China Reduce Unrecognized and Preventable COVID-19 Deaths

In an era marked by a ruinous war between a democratic state and a totalitarian regime, political volatility, rightward looking isolationism and nationalism, and heightened competition and disputes ... do otherwise is to tacitly accept moral-ethical failure from inaction and an indeterminate risk to global public health by giving SARS-CoV2 another opportunity to exploit our social and political

Winners and Losers in the American Political Debates of the Nation’s Health: An Ethical and Moral Dilemma

the U.S. government’s political response and the Gunn article presents an ethical perspective of the emerging promised vaccine to halt the virus.

The Confluence of Philosophy And Biology: An Excavation of Philosophical Issues in Molecular and Developmental Biology

molecular and developmental biology. This paper is an attempt to expose that philosophy is a major tool in proffering possible solutions to issues related to biology through one of the new dimension in ... Johnson Mendie University of Calabar , Calabar 1 Patrick Johnson Mendle, University of Calabar, Calabar & Emmanuel Bassey Eyo , PhD Part of the Biology Commons, Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, and

An Epidemiological View of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: COVID-19 and the Ethics of Science Denial

COVID-19 is exploiting U.S. political and cultural polarization in the first presidential election to be driven by epidemiology and public health. Medical science is on the ballot as Americans’ views ... dead, or if one’s employers and customers are ill or dead. Political leaders at multiple levels, and in particular the President, have politicized the wearing of face masks and so intentionally obscured

Political Parties, Elections and Election Systems by Etem Aziri

differences between them. Classification of political parties according to the author, can be based on different criteria ranging from philosophy and political, to the political programs of up to parliamentary ... treatment of political parties as a global phenomenon. In 2004 published the book "Political parties and democracy", while two years "Sociology of political parties" - in modified version. This book differs

The Morality of Same Sex Marriage: How Not to Globalize a Cultural Anomie

. Using the human right fad and political might, they subtly engineer the globalization of this phenomenon. This move has been strongly opposed mostly by ‘developing’ nations and some churches across ... Political Philosophy Commons, and the Other Philosophy Commons Recommended Citation Article 2 Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/ojhe Part of the Epistemology Commons, Ethics and

Ethical Considerations Surrounding Vaccine Development During A Public Health Crisis

of Medicine and Philosophy , 2 , 1 - 9 . https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhaa028 Kaur , S. P. , & Gupta , V. ( 2020 ). Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free

Reciprocity and Priority Allocation System for Organ Transplant: An Ethical Analysis

political and cultural opposition, it is unlikely that many countries can implement such a system. The RPA system may be a relatively non-controversial approach to encourage registering for organ donation ... Care model. However, further analyses incorporating specific cultural and political issues are needed to see if such a system is appropriate for each country. Furthermore, we must go beyond theoretical

Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography by Daniel Tanguay

The book ends with concluding remarks of the writer about the whole Leo Strauss’s thought. Although Leo Strauss’s philosophy is very complex especially in terms of so many different titles and ... twentieth century political philosophy but also enable to us with critical outlook about modern political philosophy and its problems. Apart from Introduction, the book consists of four main titles about Leo

An Ethical Analysis of Contemporary Healthcare Practices and Issues

The purpose of this analysis is to examine specific segments of healthcare policy and practice, applying various ethical perspectives. We examine the economic and political influences that surround ... economic and political influences that surround ethical behavior in health services, as well as how practitioners, patients, and families respond and act as a result of such influences. We then delve into

Sexual Minority Rights Are Not Just for the West: Health and Safety Considerations in Africa

heterogeneous, not homogeneous. One need only consider the social, political, and moral divide between two opposing camps within contemporary America to see the truth of this claim. To protect itself against the ... ., how has this recognition altered the everyday situation of real people living real lives. By starting with a decision to leave behind the moral arguments on LGBTQ+, South Africa decided upon a political

A Framework for Personal Respiratory Ethics

/journal.pone.0013998 Chen , H. , Yu , L. , & Huang , L.T. ( 2021 ). To mask or not to mask . Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology , 25 ( 3 ), 503 - 512 . https://philarchive.org/rec/CHETMO-22 Coleman

Agency and Health Policies

, which is frequently neglected when democracy and political freedoms are taken for granted, such as coercive public policies. Improvements in infant mortality rate can occur in the presence of coercive ... a popular deliberation process, which includes all the parties at stake. “The political community is possible only under certain circumstances: being able to organise itself, allowing political

Yet another tale of two cities: Buenos Aires and Chicago

about 2.25 times more capital per worker. Finally, Chicago’s political situation was far more stable and it was not a political capital. Human capital seems to explain the lion’s share of the divergent ... path of the two cities and their countries, both because of its direct effect and because of the connection between education and political instability. Argentine exceptionalism; Comparative development

The demand for military spending in Latin American countries

, strategic, political, and security factors. Studies that estimate demand functions for such budgetary outlays focus either on individual country case studies or on groups of countries that share some similar ... spending has been driven by both domestic and external factors. The former include the economy as well as the political characteristics of the government as these are quantified by the Polity index of

Right or Duty: A Kantian Argument for Universal Healthcare

Much of the political rhetoric about healthcare in the United States is couched in terms of healthcare as a right or entitlement. Healthcare as a right, like all welfare rights, carries with it the ... Morals, attempts to define the ethical duties of rational beings. In Kant’s philosophy, morality is derived, not from religion or tradition, but from pure rationality; and therefore, for Kant, moral agents

Path-dependent import-substitution policies: the case of Argentina in the twentieth century

dependence. We contend that the endogenous industrialization of the inter-war period generated political changes that paved the way for import-substitution industrialization during the post-war period. Even if ... economic growth, protectionist policies became entrenched. In the absence of mature political institutions, the liberalization process was delayed and, when it finally did occur, it was extremely costly

Leadership in the Health Sector: A Discourse of the Leadesrhip Model of Utilitarianism

Christopher A. Udofia University of Calabar , Nigeria Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/ojhe Part of the Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons Recommended Citation - Leadership in ... , among other advocates expounded and explored the philosophy of utilitarianism as a response to the teething problems of their socio-cultural milieu. They philosophized in England at a time when she was

Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh: Activities, Challenges, and Suggestions

services (support by donors), and the piloting of health insurance which has been piloted in three subdistricts. Political commitment for these areas is strong. However, there are barriers pertaining to the ... financing structure dating from the colonial era. While others pertain to the health sector’s implementation shortfalls including issues of human resources, political interference, monitoring, and supervision

Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh: Activities, Challenges, and Suggestions

services (support by donors), and the piloting of health insurance which has been piloted in three subdistricts. Political commitment for these areas is strong. However, there are barriers pertaining to the ... financing structure dating from the colonial era. While others pertain to the health sector’s implementation shortfalls including issues of human resources, political interference, monitoring, and supervision