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Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited

Routledge, 2013

Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs a firmer conceptual and empirical footing.

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Manual of Geriatric Anesthesia

Springer, 2012

The Manual of Geriatric Anesthesia is a practical guide for physicians, residents, and students interested in the care of the elderly patient undergoing surgery. Although primarily written for anesthesiologists, other perioperative physicians and nurses will also find the information highly valuable. Highlights of the text include concise and...

The Dark Side of Leadership: An Institutional Perspective

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Contrary to the notion that leaders contribute to positive behaviour within organisations, this book reflects growing interest in the ‘dark side’ of leadership: the unethical and immoral personalities that can reside in positions of power. Drawing on empirical and theoretical analysis, the author examines immorality...

Nietzsche's Protestant Fathers: A Study in Prodigal Christianity

Routledge, 2018

Nietzsche was famously an atheist, despite coming from a strongly Protestant family. This heritage influenced much of his thought, but was it in fact the very thing that led him to his atheism? This work provides a radical re-assessment of Protestantism by documenting and extrapolating Nietzsche’s view that Christianity dies...

Debating Equal Pay for All: Economy, Practicability and Ethics (Palgrave Debates in Business and Management)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Philosophical questions, when first encountered by the uninitiated, often seem either silly or meaningless. Why is there something rather than nothing? Do physical objects continue to exist when nobody is perceiv- ing them? Does it make sense to say “this sentence is false”? What is beauty? This book boldly adds a new...

The Moral Media: How Journalists Reason About Ethics (Lea's Communication Series)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

The Moral Media provides readers with preliminary answers to questions about ethical thinking in a professional environment. Representing one of the first publications of journalists' and advertising practitioners' response to the Defining Issues Test (DIT), this book compares thinking about ethics by these two groups with the...

Medical Ethics Today: The BMA's Handbook of Ethics and Law

BMJ Books, 2012

This is your source for authoritative and comprehensive guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Ethics Department covering both routine and highly contentious medico-legal issues faced by health care professionals. The new edition updates the information from both the legal and ethical perspectives and reflects...

Financial Accounting

South-Western College, 2006

This revision of Financial Accounting is the most significant in the book’s long history. The substantial changes we have made are geared to meeting the needs of today’s students, who not only face a business world increasingly complicated by ethical issues, globalization, and technology, but who also have more demands on their...

The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics

Oxford University Press, 2019

Economics and ethics are both valuable tools for analyzing the behavior and actions of human beings and institutions. Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, considered them two sides of the same coin, but since economics was formalized and mathematicised in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the fields have largely followed separate...

Ethics of Big Data: Balancing Risk and Innovation

O'Reilly, 2012

What are your organization’s policies for generating and using huge datasets full of personal information? This book examines ethical questions raised by the big data phenomenon, and explains why enterprises need to reconsider business decisions concerning privacy and identity. Authors Kord Davis and Doug Patterson provide...

Understanding Ethics in Applied Behavior Analysis: Practical Applications

Routledge, 2019

Drawing upon combined 35 years of clinical experience as well as the reflections of colleagues in the field, Understanding Ethics in Applied Behavior Analysis provides the foundation for a lifelong journey of ethical practice in service for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities....

Managerial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses

Cengage Learning, 2007

Now you can focus on the concepts, methods, and uses of managerial accounting that will prepare you to become an effective manager in today's business world. This classic MBA text balances managerial accounting coverage with a strong emphasis on management decision-making. You learn how to truly use the financial information, rather than...

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