Alternative Rule-Making within European Bioethics – Necessary and Therefore Legitimate?

Making the cut: analytical and empirical bioethics.

This issue of the journal includes papers across both analytical and empirical schools within bioethics. In his feature article, ‘The kindest cut? Surgical castration, sex offenders and coercive offers’, John McMillan asks whether surgical castration can be ethically provided as medical treatment for sex offenders (see page 583, Editor’s choice). While surgical castration has previously been av...

Creating online discursive spaces that legitimate alternative ways of knowing

Although educators have long recognised prior learning and life experience in their pedagogical strategies epistemological or cultural difference has not generally been legitimated. Knowledge originating from within non-western cultural groups, whether indigenous or migratory has not been valued. Such hegemony has created negative consequences for members of minority groups and has led to the e...

Improvisation within management : oxymoron , paradox , or legitimate way of achieving ?

This paper considers the evolving literature on Organizational Improvisation, considering a number of different perspectives relating to its use and acceptance within a typology of modern management styles. Cunha et al.’s (1999) work is identified as a starting point, and particular attention is given to the gradual integration of improvisational working styles into the lexicon of management th...

Legal implications and law making in bioethics and experimental medicine.

Governing Networks and Rule-Making in Cyberspace