The genre of storytelling in the form of case studies is an effective way of teaching and learning. Contemporary research on the case method is absent in the academic discipline of communication. This issue needs to be addressed and research on the effectiveness of the case method needs to be done in the academic area of communication. This paper discusses the reasons behind the popularity of t...

Are doctors and nurses bound by just the same constraints as everyone else in regard to honesty? What, anyway, does honesty require? Telling no lies? Avoiding intentional deception by whatever means? From a utilitarian standpoint lying would seem to be on the same footing as other forms of intentional deception: yielding the same consequences. But utilitarianism fails to explain the wrongness o...

The Liar Paradox arises when a person stands up and says, “This assertion is false.” Is the speaker telling the truth or telling a lie? At first blush, it seems that the situation is paradoxical: if he is telling the truth, then he is not; if he is not telling the truth, then he is. In fact, that first blush lasted for almost two thousand years. First formulated by the ancient Greeks, the puzzl...

The author draws on an Australian study using multiple qualitative methods to investigate truth telling in aged care. Thematic analysis of data from five nursing homes involving 23 personal care assistants revealed participants' role understanding as influencing their perceptions about truth telling in practice. Five themes emerged: role as the happy comfort carer, division of labor, division o...

With a cell phone camera a person can take pictures and immediately transmit them to larger repositories using telecommunication channels. This provides the potential for anywhere, anytime picture sharing and story telling. It can also increase awareness among peers within a social network. But while we enjoy telling stories around this informal content, the necessary act of downloading, organi...

guidance clinic, a reception centre, the management committee of a mental hospital, and the Marriage Guidance Council?-to give answers to the questions of puzzled and confused young people of all classes. In these experiences, the foreword says that she found herself tracing distress and disaster to their source in unhappy or broken homes. And the effect of the book would be to help young peopl...