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Unethical Brotherly Love: Zell Kravinsky and Maximum Human Utility
2014
The case of American investor and philanthropist Zell Kravinsky (1956-) presents numerous ethical challenges regarding our social responsibility to others. In 2003, after disbursing the bulk of his forty-five-million-dollar fortune to various charities, Kravinsky made the decision to donate one of his kidneys to an impoverished African-American woman he had met only once. In doing so he courageously saved a life, but also incurred the wrath of his family, friends, and many observers in the media who questioned his sanity. To Kravinsky, however, refusal to donate would have been tantamount to murder, constituting a violation of his belief in ‘maximum human utility’ – a concept that insists o…
Sui nomina ‘consequentia ... rebus’ in I. 2.7.3
2019
Moving from the comparison between I. 2.7.3 e C. 5.3.20, the A. questions the meaning of the short passage ‘nos ... consequentia nomina rebus esse studentes constituimus ...’ reported in I. 2.7.3, from which the maxim ‘nomina sunt consequentia rerum’ would reasonably be derived.
Support for culture via crowdfunding in question: beyond motivations, an analysis of the barriers to participate
2017
In a context of strong budgetary pressure for non-market cultural organizations and of relative slowdown of crowdfunding campaigns in this sector, this reflection aims to provide a critical analysis of these new forms of financial support for culture. After drawing up a state of the art on the levers and obstacles to participation in such financing operations, the results of a qualitative study based on 43 individuals (donors and non-donors, familiar or not with cultural practices) will be exposed to highlight the diversity of misgivings about crowdfunding, beyond the traditional barriers attached to cultural gift, and the paradoxes that these calls for generosity arouse.
Binding communication at the service of organ donations
2010
International audience; Le but du projet était de diminuer le taux de refus des dons de cornées par les familles des personnes décédées, lors des demandes effectuées au téléphone par les coordinateurs des greffes d'un Centre Hospitalier Universitaire français. La démarche s'est déroulée en plusieurs étapes : 1/ recherche d'un consensus, par les coordinateurs des greffes, sur une > d'entretien téléphonique avec les familles des personnes décédées ; 2/ optimisation de cette pratique à la lumière du paradigme de la communication engageante. La différence essentielle entre > et > tient aux actes > (un versus deux) que les coordinateurs doivent s'efforcer d'obtenir de la part des familles avant …
Attiecības ar lietām: Latvijas labdarības veikalu gadījuma analīze
2022
Šajā maģistra darbā tika pētītas cilvēku un materiālo lietu attiecības izmantojot Latvijā esošo labdarības veikalu tīkla “Otra Elpa ” gadījuma analīzi. Par galveno pētniecisko jautājumu tika izvirzīts: kādi ir biežāk sastopamākie attiecību veidi starp cilvēkiem un to vai kāda cita izmantotām materiālām mantām. Lai atbildētu uz pētniecisko jautājumu, darba ietvaros tika apzināta esošā literatūra, veiktas aptaujas un intervijas, lai noskaidrotu kādi ir biežāk sastopamākie iemesli, domas un apeja ar materiālām lietām, kuras tie ziedo vai iegādājas “Otra Elpa” labdarības veikalu tīklā. Ar attiecībām starp cilvēku un materiālām lietām šī darba ietvaros tiek saprasts plašs īpašību kopums, kuru ci…
Testaments et pratique testamentaire dans le royaume franc (vie-viiie siècle)
2005
Les testaments merovingiens ont de longue date attire l'attention des diplomaties, des historiens du droit et de la societe. U. Nonn a montre la continuite entre testaments romains et merovingiens, mais on s'interroge toujours sur la diffusion de ces actes dans la societe et sur les conditions de leur disparition au IX e siecle. Un reexamen de la question (avec listes du materiel disponible) donne a penser que differents types d'actes a cause de mort etaient utilises dans la societe merovingienne et que les testaments aristocratiques - les seuls connus-, conserves de maniere preferentielle par les heritiers ecclesiastiques qu'ils instituaient, ne sont pas representatifs d'une pratique sans …
Decisioni sul termine della vita e donazione degli organi. Spunti comparatistici per una futura disciplina
2021
The essay focuses on organ donation as a possible choice for those patients seeking euthanasia or assisted suicide whose informed and free consent has to be carefully preserved. In that case, indeed, concern for the welfare of others, on the one hand, and dying for having relief from illness, on the other hand, could confusedly converge in the will of a vulnerable person receiving medical treatments. The Dutch and the Belgian statutory frameworks governing organ donation after euthanasia can shed light on this such ethical theme involving human dignity that should be ignored by the Italian legislator anymore.
Food Assistance
2018
Food assistance and food charity refer to practices where public, private, or third sector actors provide food (or resources to acquire food) to individuals or households that face hunger or food shortage. The food is provided for free or for a minimal cost and the provision is conducted through varying services like food banks. Domestic food assistance practices are realized in relations between a collective (the provider or donor) and individuals (the recipients of the assistance). For those international practices of food aid that take place between collectives, typically nations or global food aid organizations and recipient countries, see the entry for Food aid. Currently, approximatel…
Vascularized composite allotransplantation - a Council of Europe position paper
2017
After more than 120 hand-upper extremity and 37 face transplant procedures performed worldwide, vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) now falls under the scope of organ transplant legislation in Europe and the United States. While in the USA, VCA has been considered as standard care since 2014, VCA in Europe is still performed through clinical research trials, except in United Kingdom. However, after two decades of favourable experience with upper extremity transplantation (UET), professionals in Europe are proposing hand allotransplantation as “controlled standard” care, as opposed to face transplantation (FT), which is still a challenging activity. The European Committee on Org…
Philoscphies of the gift: Uses and abuses of contemporary ethics donation
2013
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el concepto de donación en la ética contemporánea. Este análisis se realiza en tres momentos: el primero se sitúa en la introducción y muestra que es un concepto importante en el que convergen la fenomenología, el personalismo y la hermenéutica. Esta convergencia no solo supone un uso frecuente del concepto sino un abuso del mismo cuando se construye de espalda a las mediaciones objetivas o institucionales que lo condicionan. El segundo presenta una antropología del don y muestra su relación con los objetos, la reciprocidad, la deuda y la libertad. En el tercer momento se describe la filosofía de la donación de Paul Ricoeur, donde se comprueba un uso…