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Communities of complicity
Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. Ordinary people often find themselves caught between the moral frameworks of capitalism, Maoism and the Chinese tradition. This ethnographic study of the village of Zhongba (in Hubei Province, central China) is an attempt to grasp the ethical reflexivity of everyday life in rural China. Drawing on descriptions of village life, interspersed with targeted theoretical analyses, the author examines how ordinary people construct their own senses of their lives and their futures in everyday activities: building houses, working, celebrating marriages and funerals, gambling and dealing with local government. The villagers confront moral uncertainty; they creatively harmonize public discourse and local practice; and sometimes they resolve incoherence and unease through the use of irony. In so doing, they perform everyday ethics and re-create transient moral communities at a time of massive social dislocation.
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Practical ethics
\"For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when others do not have enough to eat? Should we buy meat from intensively reared animals? Am I doing something wrong if my carbon footprint is above the global average? Other questions confront us as concerned citizens: equality and discrimination on the grounds of race or sex; abortion, the use of embryos for research and euthanasia; political violence and terrorism; and the preservation of our planet's environment. This book's lucid style and provocative argumentsmake it an ideal text for university courses and for anyone willing to think about how she or he ought to live\"--Provided by publisher.
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From Revolution to Ethics
Challenging the prevalent view that the 1960s did not have any lasting effect, From Revolution to Ethics demonstrates that intellectuals and activists turned to ethics as the touchstone for understanding interpersonal, institutional, and political dilemmas. In absorbing and scrupulously researched detail Bourg explores the developing ethical fascination as it emerged among student Maoists courting terrorism, anti-psychiatric celebrations of madness, feminists mobilizing against rape, and pundits and philosophers championing human rights.
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Navigating crisis: a qualitative exploration of medical social workers’ responses to ethical issues during COVID-19
Background
Medical social workers’ (MedSWs) roles and responsibilities expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic. They experienced larger caseloads, restrictive protocols, new policies, and work outside of their professional scope, despite limited access to resources, support, or hazard compensation. As a result, MedSWs faced complex ethical situations, which they had to address in accordance with the profession’s guiding principles.
Methods
We conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews with 54 MedSWs about their professional experiences during the pandemic and used the National Association of Social Worker’s Code of Ethics (service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, and competence) as a deductive coding guide to describe MedSWs' navigation of and responsiveness to ethical situations across healthcare settings. We defined ethical situations as threats to values and ethical actions as attempts to resolve the threat in a way that aligns with professional standards. Our methodology was informed and documented via the Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ) checklist.
Results
From MedSWs' interviews, we identified six major ethical situations that aligned with the six values and ethical principles in the Code: inadequate addressing of patients’ social determinants of health by healthcare institutions (
service
), social injustices negatively impacting patients' and providers’ healthcare experiences (
social justice
), de-prioritization of patients’ wishes in high stakes situations (
dignity and worth of the person
), social isolation and related distress resulting from social distancing policies (
importance of human relationships
), encroachment on social workers’ scope of practice boundaries (
integrity
), and lack of preparedness among social workers for emergency COVID-19 situations (
competence
). We also identified several ethical actions, aligning with the six ethical principles, that MedSWs took to address these situations.
Conclusion
The ethical situations and actions that MedSWs discussed in this qualitative study align closely with the experiences of other healthcare workers during the pandemic. Despite uncertain situations, MedSWs relied on their innate understanding of social work principles to guide ad hoc decision-making. Results from this analysis indicate the need for more robust administrative and institutional support structures that would allow MedSWs to practice self-care, maintain their scope of practice boundaries, and access additional emergency preparedness training.
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Social Work in a Digital Age: Ethical and Risk Management Challenges
Digital, online, and other electronic technology has transformed the nature of social work practice. Contemporary social workers can provide services to clients by using online counseling, telephone counseling, video counseling, cybertherapy (avatar therapy), self-guided Web-based interventions, electronic social networks, e-mail, and text messages. The introduction of diverse digital, online, and other forms of electronic social services has created a wide range of complex ethical and related risk management issues. This article provides an overview of current digital, online, and electronic social work services; identifies compelling ethical issues related to practitioner competence, client privacy and confidentiality, informed consent, conflicts of interest, boundaries and dual relationships, consultation and client referral, termination and interruption of services, documentation, and research evidence; and offers practical risk management strategies designed to protect clients and social workers. The author identifies relevant standards from the NASW Code of Ethics and other resources designed to guide practice.
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What we owe the future : a million-year view
Humanity is in its infancy. Our future could last for millions of years - or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people could lead lives of great happiness or unimaginable suffering, or never live at all, depending on what we choose to do today. As we approach a critical juncture in our history, we can make profound moral decisions about how humanity's course plays out. We can create positive change on behalf of future generations, to prevent the use of catastrophic weapons and maintain peace between the world's great powers. We can improve our moral values, navigating the rise of AI and climate change more fairly for generations to come. The challenges we face are enormous. But so is the influence we have. If we choose wisely, our distant descendants will look back on us fondly, knowing we did everything we could to give them a world that is beautiful and just.
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Towards a Holistic Approach to Sustainable Development: Inner Development as a Missing Link for Sustainability Transformation
The discourse on understanding and implementing sustainable development has so far focused primarily on the external aspects, neglecting the internal dimension of people. The main purpose of our paper is to contribute to addressing this research gap. Therefore, we intend to (1) substantiate existing aspects of the Inner Development Goals (IDGs), (2) complement them, and (3) link the concept of the IDGs to normative discourses in Christian Social Ethics and Social Philosophy. Our results show that the dimensions of Being, Relating, and Collaborating in the IDG Framework can be substantiated by the normative discourse on spirituality and by reference to the social principle of personality in Christian Social Ethics, as well as by the Indian Social Philosophical Perspective of Vimala Thakar which focuses on a value-based approach. This paper suggests that the concept of the IDGs will be strengthened by adding the dimension of Caring—understood as the concern and responsibility for the wholeness in the combining of the inner and outer dimensions. By linking the concept of the Inner Development Goals to the existing normative discourses in Christian Social Ethics and Social Philosophy, our research contributes to making the concept connectable and deepens the discussions on a practical and theoretical level.
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