Bioethicists have failed to understand the pervasively paternalistic character of research ethics. Not only is the overall structure of research review and regulation paternalistic in some sense; even the way informed consent is sought may imply paternalism. Paternalism has limits, however. Getting clear on the paternalism of research ethics may mean some kinds of prohibited research should be ...

The philosophical debate on paternalism is conducted as if the property of being paternalistic should be attributed to actions. Actions are typically deemed to be paternalistic if they amount to some kind of interference with a person and if the rationale for the action is the good of the person interfered with. This focus on actions obscures the normative issues involved. In particular, it mak...

Paternalistic practices, wherein providers confer a treatment or service upon a person or persons without their consent, ostensibly by reason of their limited autonomy or diminished capacity, are widespread in healthcare and in societies around the world. In the United States, paternalism in health and human services is widespread and probably increasing with newly emergent forms. Numerous issu...

This article discusses differences and continuity in responses to issues of slave management two texts from different periods Greek history (Xenophon's Oeconomicus the Odyssey ) compares these those owners Antebellum South, ancient Rome, Near East. In particular, it examines expressions paternalistic attitudes towards slaves (a well-studied feature slave-owning classes throughout history) that ...

The main purpose of this research article is to find out the impact of paternalistic leadership on the employee’s outcome in the banking sector of Pakistan. From the previous researches it is speculated that paternalistic leadership and employee outcome have a positive connection. For data collection questionnaire and convenient sampling method was used. 260 questionnaires were filled in total....

Eran Toch Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel [email protected] Abstract This short paper discusses the legitimacy of paternalistic privacy approaches that aim to nudge users to more privacy-oriented behavior in networks. I demonstrate that traditional theories for privacy, rooted in individualistic values, fail to justify paternalistic views. In response, I suggest tying networked priv...

For security reasons, employees of a Dutch local government department needed to wear an identifying lanyard with their employee badge, but compliance this policy was low. Two nudges increase were evaluated in pre-registered natural field experiment using pre-post design, and qualitative survey. Bayesian inference provides insufficient support for the effectiveness nudges. While more respondent...

Since the 1990s, a number of anti-corruption conventions have been adopted due to pressure from international financial institutions, donor countries and governments of major industrialised nations. One of these conventions is the Anti-corruption Protocol adopted by the Southern African Development Community. This article examines this Convention against the backdrop of the principal–agent–clie...