Taking Responsibility for Responsibility

Beyond Bristol: taking responsibility.

Cigarette advertising to women: taking responsibility.

Taking responsibility for complexity - ODI Briefing Papers 68

• It is crucial to recognise when policy and programming faces complexity, rather than sweeping it under the carpet • Traditional approaches to implementation do not apply when it comes to complex problems, and can have serious sideeffects • Appropriate responses need to work with the constraints on where, when and how knowledge and decision making can be linked Many of the problems that face p...

Harnessing opportunities and taking responsibility for our future.

As I start my presidential address today, I want the AOTA [American Occupational Therapy Association]—which is you, the member—to hold your leadership to a high level of accountability. Last year I stated some goals. Today I want to highlight some of the accomplishments. I would like to attribute most of these accomplishments to our very, very talented staff. To begin, would all the National Of...

Taxing Meat: Taking Responsibility for One’s Contribution to Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic use in animal farming is one of the main drivers of antibiotic resistance both in animals and in humans. In this paper we propose that one feasible and fair way to address this problem is to tax animal products obtained with the use of antibiotics. We argue that such tax is supported both by (a) deontological arguments, which are based on the duty individuals have to compensate socie...