Why Tolerate Conscience?

Why Tolerate Conscience?

In Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter argues against the special legal status of religion, claiming that religion should not be the only ground for exemptions to the law and that this form of protection should be, in principle, available for the claims of secular conscience as well. However, in the last chapter of his book, he objects to a universal regime of exemptions for both religious and...

Turning Down the Volume: Why Some Genes Tolerate Less Noise

Why Managers Tolerate Workarounds - The Role of Information Systems

Workarounds are deviations from defined routines in business processes and challenge standardization and thus the performance improvements expected from information systems. Researchers study the phenomena of workarounds across different domains and industries with varying conclusions. Literature associates workarounds predominantly with performance losses, facades of compliance, or inferior pr...

An essential prescription: why pharmacist-inclusive conscience clauses are necessary.

Why do patients with congestive heart failure tolerate the initiation of beta-blocker therapy?

BACKGROUND Despite its negative inotropic effects, the initiation of beta-adrenergic blockade is tolerated by patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Accordingly, we examined the acute hemodynamic effects of beta-adrenergic blockade on systolic and diastolic left ventricular (LV) function and ventriculo-arterial coupling. In addition, isolated myocardium from patients with CHF shows selec...