Today physicians and scientists have a detailed understanding of human biology and have developed diagnostic and therapeutic tools that were unimaginable a century ago. Yet physicians have provided care and counsel for more than 3000 years. Some, such as Hippocrates and Osler, remain exemplars of the excellent physician. They did not have our scientific knowledge or tools, but they knew somethi...

The aim of this paper is to bring together temporal and spatial notions into a different set of axiologic pairs, and to trace examples in which such a set of pairs might be illuminating in accounts of how environmental issues are perceived in various social science disciplines. The paper begins with a division of time into reified clock time (chronos) and timely kairos time, together with a spa...

We propose a reawakening of interest in the role artistic knowing for managerial education, presenting pedagogy that is sensitive to cultural context and aimed at enabling phronetic management paradox. Inspired by fado, iconic Portuguese popular music, especially ways which it embodies stresses society, we develop strategies learning based on engagement with art fosters sensitivity contribute i...

This article builds on Mannion and Exworthy’s account of the tensions between standardization and customization within health services to explore why these tensions exist. It highlights the limitations of explanations which root them in an expression of managerialism versus professionalism and suggests that each logic is embedded in a set of ontological, epistemological and moral commitments wh...

This article reports on a practice-based research project that examined the various orientations of practice to ethical deliberation. The aim was produce film captured debate between two creative practitioners as they walked through their local streets. would be catalyst for staff and students at an arts institution think about own practices. approach taken based Aristotelian notions phronesis ...

Abstract The aim of this article is to provide an overview various discourses relevant developing a construct collective phronesis , from (neo)-Aristotelian perspective, with implications for professional practice in general and business ethics education particular. Despite the proliferation interest practical wisdom within more areas both psychology philosophy, focus has remained mostly on at ...