Search results for "paternalism"
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Tension between freedom and dependence-A challenge for residents who live in nursing homes.
2017
Aims and objectives To present results from interviews of older people living in nursing homes, on how they experience freedom. Background We know that freedom is an existential human matter, and research shows that freedom remains important throughout life. Freedom is also important for older people, but further research is needed to determine how these people experience their freedom. The background for this article was a Scandinavian study that occurred in nursing homes; the purpose of the study was to gain knowledge about whether the residents felt that their dignity was maintained and respected. Design The design was hermeneutic, with qualitative research interviews. Method Twenty-eigh…
On Justifying Legal Paternalism
1990
. Paternalism, understood as coercive intervention with the behavior of a person in order to prevent her from causing harm to herself, is a highly controversial issue, because it implies a departure from the widely recognized principle of harm to others. Some conceptual differences between legal paternalism and other forms of state coercion that also depart from the principle of harm to others will be indicated. This is followed by an analysis of the arguments that are usually brought forth against legal paternalism. And finally, the possibility of determining ethically justifiable types of legal paternalism is explored.
Les trois âges du paternalisme. Cantines et alimentation ouvrière au Creusot (1860-1960)
2014
L’evolution des formes prises par l’organisation de l’alimentation constitue un observatoire privilegie pour penser le paternalisme et ses reconfigurations entre le milieu du XIXe siecle et la periode dite des « Trente Glorieuses ». Au Creusot, le paternalisme des Schneider s’est globalement montre hostile au dispositif de la cantine qu’il n’a adopte que de mauvaise grâce pendant les periodes de crises exceptionnelles, notamment les deux guerres mondiales. Durant les periodes de paix sociale, l’entreprise privilegie le repas a domicile et un modele familial fonde sur le role nourricier des menageres. La cantine est surtout destinee aux travailleurs etrangers, aux jeunes celibataires et aux …
Indisponibilità dei diritti fondamentali: un problema di interpretazione
2018
In this article, I will argue that a liberal-egalitarian theory can easily justify the fact that the holder of a fundamental right cannot legitimately transfer or surrender a fundamental right. A liberal-egalitarian theory can justify the fact the exercise of a fundamental right is mandatory, when what is protected is a real interest of the right holder, like the rights of workers to wages or paid holidays. On the contrary, a liberalegalitarian theory is incompatible with the fact that the exercise of the fundamental right is considered mandatory, the holder must exercise the right, when the interest protected is an ideal or objective interest, like the objective value of life, not a real o…
IoT Contracts. An Empirical Research
2015
An empirical research on the contracts used in the Internet of Things to point out the most relevant contractual issues and the main dangers for customers of IoT products. In my opinion, in the IoT the notion itself of product changes and therefore there will be a revival of the product liability regime, which from now on will apply not only to hardware, but also to software and service.
Privacy nudges as policy interventions: comparing US and German media users’ evaluation of information privacy nudges
2017
ABSTRACTThe protection of individuals’ online privacy is one of the main challenges for Internet policy. As the informed consent paradigm has largely failed to ensure privacy protection online, we examine nudging as a tool of soft paternalism as an alternative intervention to sensitize users towards online privacy. Building upon the criticism that nudging is considered being manipulative and reducing people’s autonomy in decision-making, we inquire how media users themselves evaluate nudges’ effectiveness and intrusiveness. In particular, we distinguish nudges either as targeting heuristic decision-making (system 1) or deliberate decision-making through education and information (system 2).…
La problematica incriminazione dell'istigazione e aiuto al suicidio. Possibilità e limiti del principio di solidarietà.
2018
Il contributo intende indagare le possibili connessioni tra il principio di solidarietà ed i contenuti ed i limiti delle fattispecie incriminatrici, e fa ciò concentrandosi sulla norma di parte speciale relativa all’istigazione e aiuto al suicidio. Tale disposizione, infatti, presenta una struttura ed una ratio che tradiscono la visione corporativa del legislatore del ’30, che caricava l’atto suicida di disvalore basandosi su una visione della vita del singolo indicizzata ad un interesse statale preminente. Con l’affermarsi della Costituzione e del principio personalista la visione del legislatore codicistico deve considerarsi del tutto abbandonata, ciò nonostante l’incriminazione in commen…
Il paternalismo giuridico tra principio del danno e moralismo giuridico. Alcune riflessioni a partire dal libro di Giorgio Maniaci
2021
Nell’articolo si sostiene che il paternalismo giuridico non costituisce un autonomo principio di criminalizzazione. A tal fine, si analizza il ruolo dell’immoralità dell’atto nel funzionamento dei tre princìpi di criminalizzazione del moralismo giuridico, del principio del danno e del paterna- lismo giuridico: la tesi è che, al di là delle apparenze, tutti e tre questi princìpi suppongano che l’immoralità dell’atto costituisca l’oggetto intenzionale di una criminalizzazione legittima. Que- sta tesi è sostenuta, dapprima, con riferimento specifico al principio del danno, del quale si pro- spettano diversi possibili tipi di moralizzazione, e poi, più diffusamente, con riferimento al pa- terna…
Communication skills in medicine: where do we come from and where are we going?
2015
The physician-patient relationship has changed throughout history, as the role of physician has been transformed. Modern physicians need to be educated on how to use highly specialized knowledge when approaching the patient as a unique and whole person living in a given psychological, social, and material context. This relationship evolved from a paternalistic model to a cooperative-deliberative one, representing a meeting between two “experts:” the physician as the medical expert and the patient as the expert on himself. According to this model, communication between patients and physicians must be based on common understanding in a caring and dynamic relationship that also involves the pa…
The two faces of Nordic management? Nordic firms and their employee relations in the Baltic States
2009
This study examines Nordic management styles in union and non-union industrial enterprises in the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) through case studies of nine Nordic subsidiary companies, based on on-site interviews with management and employees.1 This analysis construes the ‘Nordic model’ of management style as ‘bargained constitutional’ or ‘sophisticated consultative’, following Purcell and Ahlstrand's (1994) matrix of management styles in the highly unionized countries of origin, characterized as coordinated market economies. The case studies reveal that in the Baltic liberal-market environment, Nordic employers exhibit a variety of management styles, ranging from sophisticate…