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Humanly possible : the great humanist experiment in living
The bestselling, prizewinning author of 'How to Live' and 'At the Existentialist Café' explores 700 years of writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human. It takes us on an irresistible journey, and joyfully celebrates open-mindedness, optimism, freedom and the power of the here and now - humanist values which have helped steer us through dark times in the past, and which are just as urgently needed in our world today.
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Disrupted dialogue : medical ethics and the collapse of physician-humanist communication (1770-1980)
Medical ethics changed dramatically in the past 30 years because physicians and humanists actively engaged each other in discussions that sometimes led to confrontation and controversy, but usually have improved the quality of medical decision-making. Before then medical ethics had been isolated for almost two centuries from the larger philosophical, social, and religious controversies of the time. There was, however, an earlier period where leaders in medicine and in the humanities worked closely together and both fields were richer for it. This volume begins with the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment when professors of medicine such as John Gregory, Edward Percival, and the American, Benjamin Rush, were close friends of philosophers like David Hume, Adam Smith, and Thomas Reid. They continually exchanged views on matters of ethics with each other in print, at meetings of elite intellectual groups, and at the dinner table. Then something happened, physicians and humanists quit talking with each other. In searching for the causes of the collapse, this book identifies shifts in the social class of physicians, developments in medical science, and changes in the patterns of medical education. Only in the past three decades has the dialogue resumed as physicians turned to humanists for help just when humanists wanted their work to be relevant to real-life social problems. Again, the book asks why, finding answers in the shift from acute to chronic disease as the dominant pattern of illness, the social rights revolution of the 1960’s, and the increasing dissonance between physician ethics and ethics outside medicine. The book tells the critical story of how the breakdown in communication between physicians and humanists occurred and how it was repaired when new developments in medicine together with a social revolution forced the leaders of these two fields to resume their dialogue.
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Correlation between ethical sensitivity and humanistic care ability among undergraduate nursing students: a cross-sectional study
Background
In nursing practice, a high level of ethical sensitivity and humanistic care ability must always be maintained. A limited number of studies have investigated the correlation between the level of ethical sensitivity and humanistic care ability of nursing students.
Methods
A survey study was conducted from November 2023 to January 2024 among 656 undergraduate nursing students using the General Information Questionnaire, Ethical Sensitivity Questionnaire For Nursing Students, and Humanistic Care Ability Inventory.
Results
The total ethical sensitivity score of nursing students (36.01 ± 6.31) was positively correlated with the total humanistic care ability score (
r
= 0.426,
P
< 0.01), and the results of the multivariate linear regression analysis showed that grade, relationship with parents, liking of the nursing major, willingness to work in nursing, experiences in learning nursing ethics, experience of caring for patients, and humanistic care ability are the main influencing factors of nursing students’ ethical sensitivity.
Conclusion
The ethical sensitivity of undergraduate nursing students is at a moderate level, which shows a moderate and significant correlation with their humanistic care ability. College nursing educators and administrators should focus on integrating humanistic care ability education while increasing ethical education to cultivate excellent nursing students with comprehensive abilities.
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The moral circle : who matters, what matters, and why
Today, human exceptionalism is the norm. Despite occasional nods to animal welfare, we prioritize humankind, often neglecting the welfare of a vast number of beings. In 'The Moral Circle', philosopher Jeff Sebo challenges us to include all potentially significant beings in our moral community, with transformative implications for our lives and societies.
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The current status and influencing factors of humanistic care ability among dental specialty nurses: a cross-sectional study
Background
Existing research indicates that Chinese nurses generally have a low level of humanistic care competence, and the humanistic care services provided to patients are often insufficient. In dental specialty settings, which primarily operate on an outpatient basis with limited inpatient services, nurses have fewer opportunities to deliver humanistic care, potentially reducing patient satisfaction. This study aims to investigate the current status and influencing factors of humanistic care competence among dental specialty nurses, providing a theoretical basis for developing targeted training programs.
Methods
This cross-sectional study was conducted from April to May 2025 using a convenience sampling method. Nurses from a tertiary stomatological hospital in Xiamen, were recruited. Data were collected using a general information questionnaire, the Caring Ability Inventory (CAI), and the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES). The descriptive analysis, independent samples t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson correlation tests, spearman correlation tests, multiple linear regression analysis were employed in data analysis.
Results
A total of 181 nurses participated in the study (179 female, 2 male), with a questionnaire response rate of 90.5%. The overall score of humanistic care competence among dental nurses was 175.44 ± 21.51 (range: 101–240). Sub-dimension scores included cognition (59.83 ± 11.07), courage (68.33 ± 11.76), and patience (47.28 ± 5.13). The average GSES score was 28.85 ± 6.68 (range: 14–40). Multiple linear regression analysis revealed that senior staff nurse (
β
= 16.371,
P
< 0.001), nurse supervisor (
β
= 18.336,
P
< 0.001), no humanistic care training (
β
=-24.416,
P
< 0.001), and self-efficacy (
β
= 0.518,
P
= 0.009) were independent predictors of humanistic care ability.
Conclusion
Humanistic care competence among dental specialty nurses is at a relatively low level. Clinical training programs should incorporate humanistic awareness as a core element, and effective strategies should be implemented to enhance nurses’ self-efficacy in order to improve their ability to provide humanistic care.
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TRANSFORMING WATER
This Essay calls for a critical transformation in humanity’s relationship with water, shifting away from the dominant western paradigm of sustainable integrated water resources management (IWRM) to water justice ethics, a life-affirming ethical relationship with water.
The sustainable IWRM paradigm is superior to earlier twentieth century versions of water resources management because it acknowledges water and aquatic ecosystems are intimately connected to human welfare and utilizes a participatory process for water decisions. Nonetheless, the roots of the paradigm are a fundamentally flawed anthropocentric utilitarian ethical perspective, an even more fatally flawed neoliberal economic model, and an unrealistic sense of human abilities to predict and control nature. Further, that paradigm depends on pluralistic consultation processes to provide sustainable outcomes, which is unrealistic in a world of severe wealth inequality and continuing marginalization of Indigenous peoples and other minorities. Most significantly, the paradigm has failed miserably; it simply does not provide all life with sufficient, high-quality water.
Instead, we argue that humanity must transform its relationship with water and adopt a life-affirming ethical relationship with water, which we term water justice ethics. We must collectively learn from secular and faith-based formulations of water justice ethics. We must also learn from the Indigenous values and practices of reverence, respect, and protection of water. At the core, water justice ethics seeks to assure that people, fish, wildlife, and plants have the quintessential requirement of life: water to support their populations, communities, and ecosystems.
To embed water justice ethics in our societies, we must make transformative changes in several spheres: individual awareness and conscience; social norms and political expectations; economic incentives; and institutional structure. This Essay suggests strategies in these diverse spheres to accomplish the mission of transforming water.
The Essay ends on a note of hope, suggesting that the ascendance of environmental justice in our society is creating conditions that may allow water justice ethics to emerge as the new paradigm for human relationships with water.
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Raising a Humanist
The world is immensely divided and broken. We have lost the art of having conversations with those who are different from us. While we cannot change the world, we can take small remedial steps starting with our homes and communities. The authorscommunication scholarswith a vast experience of working with parents, teachers and youth engage you in a conversation that is bound to leave a lasting impression on you, your children, and our world. Using critical questions, pragmatic tips and interesting anecdotes, they touch upon the deep divisive issues of our society and provide fascinating ways to use art, technology and media to provide our children with a nurturing community. Bold and provocative at times, this empowering book is your companion in raising a humanist.
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Posthuman Ethics
Posthuman theory asks in various ways what it means to be human in a time when philosophy has become suspicious of claims about human subjectivity. Those subjects who were historically considered aberrant, and our future lives becoming increasingly hybrid show we have always been and are continuously transforming into posthumans. What are the ethical considerations of thinking the posthuman? Posthuman Ethics asks not what the posthuman is, but how posthuman theory creates new, imaginative ways of understanding relations between lives. Ethics is a practice of activist, adaptive and creative interaction which avoids claims of overarching moral structures. Inherent in thinking posthuman ethics is the status of bodies as the site of lives inextricable from philosophy, thought, experiments in being and fantasies of the future. Posthuman Ethics explores certain kinds of bodies to think new relations that offer liberty and a contemplation of the practices of power which have been exerted upon bodies. The tattooed and modified body, the body made ecstatic through art, the body of the animal as a strategy for abolitionist animal rights, the monstrous body from teratology to fabulations, queer bodies becoming angelic, the bodies of the nation of the dead and the radical ways in which we might contemplate human extinction are the bodies which populate this book creating joyous political tactics toward posthuman ethics.
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