Essays about: "ethic issue"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words ethic issue.

  1. 1. My Oh My Myoma! : An Autoethnographical Experiment of Thinking My Personal Reproductive Struggles with Haraway’s Planetary Ethic of Making Kin, Not Babies

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Anika Richter; [2021]
    Keywords : reproduction • child wish • response-ability • kinship • making kin • reproductive politics • autoethnography;

    Abstract : In this thesis I explore Donna Haraway’s planetary ethic of making kin, not babies (2016) and how it could be put into practice by way of my own struggles with myoma (common muscle knots in the uterine tissue) and the question of having children or not. The personal reflections herein are based on my own thoughts and concerns, drawn from diary entries and personal conversations, on the issue of birthing and raising children on “a damaged earth” (Haraway, 2016, p. READ MORE

  3. 2. Revisiting and re-evaluating same-sex sexual acts in Christian ethics – four evaluations and a suggestion

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Simon Hedlund; [2016]
    Keywords : Christian ethics; Samuel W. Kunhiyop; Richard B. Hays; Lisa Sowle Cahill; Peter Coleman; same-sex sexual acts; same-sex sexuality; homosexuality; ethics; Bible; Scripture; Kristen etik; Samuel W. Kunhiyop; Richard B. Hays; Lisa Sowle Cahill; Peter Coleman; samkönade sexuella handlingar; samkönad sexualitet; homosexualitet; etik; Bibeln; Skriften;

    Abstract : This paper investigates three questions; how an exegetically sound basis for a biblical ethics concerning same-sex sexual acts might be construed, what role the Bible, and other sources of ethical insight, should play in construing Christian ethics, and what a Christian ethic founded on the answers to those questions would say concerning same-sex sexual acts today. To perform these investigations, the hermeneutical issue regarding biblical texts, as well as the relation between revelatory and non-revelatory ethical sources within Christian ethics, is discussed, and the construed Christian ethics concerning same-sex sexual acts and sexuality of Lisa Sowle Cahill, Samuel W. READ MORE

  4. 3. Valuing nature : ethical considerations of biodiversity in sustainability science

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Jonathan Bartling; [2016]
    Keywords : biodiversity; sustainability science; ecosystem services; valuation; anthropocentrism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Species extinction rates have during the last centuries reached levels leading scholars to proclaim a sixth mass extinction, even referred to as defining element of the Anthropocene. How humanity relates to nature and biodiversity has thus become part of how we delineate and describe the geological epoch we live in. READ MORE

  5. 4. Caring for the Caregiver

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Miriam Gottschalk; [2013]
    Keywords : Patient support; Patient- family centered care; Care giving; Heterotopia; Female ethic of care; Maori value system; Belonging; Travel; Ethics; Centre and Periphery; Ethnology; Ethnographics; Etnologi; Etik; Vård; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : When a person becomes a patient in the Auckland City Hospital, the largest public hospital in New Zealand, they often bring one or more family members with them for mental and physical support. This thesis focuses on these support persons, who in this thesis are referred to as the patient caregivers and their perspectives on staying at Te Whare Awhina (TWA). READ MORE

  6. 5. How about the Low Performers? : A study on below average salesmen

    University essay from Avdelningen för företagsekonomi

    Author : Faraz Farhang; Mehdi Hasely; [2013]
    Keywords : Salespeople performance; low performing salespeople; sales units; business ethic; personnel turnover; job engagement;

    Abstract : Sale in essence, is the revenue generator of the company which ensures the existence and maintains the profitability of the business. Here upon, regular measuring the performance of the sales department and being aware of people’s performance in the department is required for companies as to reach certain preset goals and being assured of sales department’s productivity and profitability. READ MORE