The Limits of State Autonomy: Post-Revolutionary Mexico

Sounds of the Modern Nation: Music, Culture, and the Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (review)

Autonomy: the need for limits.

This essay addresses the issue of the autonomy of the National Health Service (NHS) patient in the UK. It is argued, with reference to clinical examples, that some patients abuse their rights to medical care to the detriment of other patients and the service providers. A case is made for limiting the rights of patients in order to improve the service for all who use it. A range of mechanisms ar...

Gender Analysis of Social Security Policies in Post- Revolutionary Iran

Introduction: Due to the fact that gender is important as the most basic pillar of individuals ’identities in all social relations, it is helpful to identify current deficiencies in policymaking. Method: The method used is qualitative content analysis in the  gender analysis approach. To this end, the documents and approvals of the main womenchr(chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))39chr(chr('39')39chr('3...

LVADs and the limits of autonomy.

MayJune 2008 To the Editor: Charity Scott’s “Belief in a Just World” (Jan-Feb 2008) contains valuable insight about the shape of public ethical discourse in America. However, she is so concerned with how to “sell” social reform in the short term that her essay misses an opportunity to subject the so-called belief in a just world (“you deserve what you get, and you get what you deserve”) to crit...

Gender Analysis of Social Security Policies in Post- Revolutionary Iran

Introduction: Due to the fact that gender is important as the most basic pillar of individuals ’identities in all social relations, it is helpful to identify current deficiencies in policymaking. Method: The method used is qualitative content analysis in the  gender analysis approach. To this end, the documents and approvals of the main womenchr(chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))39chr(chr('39')39chr('3...