Speaking as one, but not speaking up: Dealing with new moral taint in an occupational online community

Speaking Up in the Operating Room:

This paper examines learning in interdisciplinary action teams. Research on team effectiveness has focused primarily on single-discipline teams engaged in routine production tasks and, less often, on interdisciplinary teams engaged in discussion and management rather than action. The resulting models are of limited use for explaining differences in learning in interdisciplinary action teams. Me...

Towards an enactive account of action: speaking and joint speaking as exemplary domains

Sense-making, within enactive theories, provides a novel way of understanding how a comprehensible and manageable world arises for a subject. Elaboration of the concept of sense-making allows a fundamental reframing of the notion of perception that does not rely on the pick up of information about a pre-given world. In rejecting the notion of the subject as an input/output system, it is also ne...

Speaking up for the Clerks 1

At the end of his essay " Pragmatism, pluralism, and postmodernism " (1998), Richard Rorty writes: " Many of my fellow philosophers use the term " post-modernist relativism " as if it were a pleonasm, and as if utilitarians, pragmatists, and philosophical pluralists in general had committed a sort of " treason " of the clerks, as Julien Benda puts it. 1 Has Rorty betrayed the clerks? Well, it i...

Views of healthcare professionals dealing with legal termination of pregnancy up to 12 WA in French-speaking Switzerland.

BACKGROUND In 2002, by popular vote, Swiss citizens accepted to legalise termination of pregnancy (TOP), up to the 12th week of amenorrhoea (WA). As a result, the cantons formulated rules of application. In 2002, medical TOP was authorised. Health institutions then had to modify their procedures and practices. QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY/PRINCIPLES What are the views of healthcare professionals on ...

Speaking with the Gospel