Self-Regarding Duties Again

Playing with Fire: Assessing Lighter Manufacturers' Duties Regarding Child Play Lighter Fires

Self-Stigma Regarding Mental Illness

In the early 1900s Cooley’s concept of the “looking glass self” (Cooley, 1902, 1909) articulated that ideas about ourselves are profoundly shaped by how we believe others see us—that one’s self concept is socially constructed. As a result, negative judgments from others are often incorporated into one’s self concept (Allport, 1954; Crocker & Major, 1989; Link, Cullen, Struening, et al., 1989; M...

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Conflicting clinical duties.

The first three articles in the Clinical Ethics section of this issue of Journal of Medical Ethics address potential conflicting duties of physicians. The first paper, by Niklas Juth and Niels Lynöe (see page 215, Editor’s choice), reports results of an empirical study of Swedish physicians’ attitudes regarding the provision of virginity certificates or hymen restorations requested by women, of...

3 Continuity of Identity : Putting the Self Back Together Again

[I]nteractionist scholars have revealed why a comprehensive analysis of the self must go beyond consideration of how people present and realize situated identities. To provide a more complete understanding of the dynamics of selfhood, social psychologists must also consider the experience of self, particularly the experience of a biographical self that gives elements of coherence and continuity...