This article draws attention to the relationship between neuroethics, neuropolitics, political psycho-cultures and public and global mental health. In the hegemonic culture of neoliberalism the purpose of life has been reduced to the self-realization in economic and consumerism terms that promotes the hypercompetitive narcissistic or manic self, indifferent to the fate and suffering of others a...

I The harn10nization of information systerns that characterizes this fourth stage of the information society has made possible new types of threats to cultural rights such as the right to create. Here these new threats as experienced by avant garde and traditional artists are explored, with attention to the restriction of speech rights by differential application across the information producti...

Five arguments are presented in favour of the proposal that people who opt in as organ donors should receive a tax break. These arguments appeal to welfare, autonomy, fairness, distributive justice and self-ownership, respectively. Eight worries about the proposal are considered in this paper. These objections focus upon no-effect and counter-productiveness, the Titmuss concern about social mea...

The article analyzes the Brazilian welfare model according to elements central to the emergence and to the development of social protection systems. It is intended to discuss to what extent the absence or incompleteness of those elements weaken the model built in the 1988 Constitution. The general precepts of social protection are initially presented to characterize and discuss those issues as ...

Introduction.........................................................................................................76 Scope and purpose of the paper.......................................................................79 Sustainability, globalisation and organic agriculture ..........................................79 Dimensions of sustainability ................................................

Abstract The recent proliferation of settler colonial and Indigenous studies Palestine have addressed the historical present-day enclosure Palestinian land, yet question ‘indigeneity’ is underexamined in this literature. Claims to indigeneity straddle varied definitions: a racial category; as constructed through encounter or preceding colonialism; local relation an international juridico-politi...