Résumé Cet article souligne l'originalité et la pertinence des premiers travaux de Mikel Dufrenne (notamment publiés entre 1946 1953) pour les sciences humaines contemporaines. Sous l'influence Georges Gurvitch, s'est en effet intéressé près à l'anthropologie culturelle américaine notamment au concept « personnalité base » d'Abram Kardiner, auquel il tente donner une consistance philosophique p...

Résumé Abstract Contexte : La Cour Suprême du Canada (CSC) a décidé que le gouvernement fédéral a pour obligation d’éliminer les dispositions du Code criminel du Canada qui interdisent l’aide médicale à mourir (AMAM). La CSC a stipulé que les médecins individuels ne seront pas tenus de fournir l’AMAM s’ils ont une objection religieuse ou de conscience. Par conséquent, la réponse législative en ...

BACKGROUND Global Doctors for Choice-a transnational network of physician advocates for reproductive health and rights-began exploring the phenomenon of conscience-based refusal of reproductive healthcare as a result of increasing reports of harms worldwide. The present White Paper examines the prevalence and impact of such refusal and reviews policy efforts to balance individual conscience, au...

The central unit of anthropological linguistics is a concept as verbalized cultural sense. This article aims to study conscience in the Russian and French languages. Conscience refers socially regulatory concepts studied by various scientists, including psychologists, philosophers philologists. In order determine national specifics semantics “conscience” we use comparative analysis semantic rel...

This article presents the clinical work with an ecclesiogenic neurosis and the difficulties encountered by the therapists working with very religious patients. In contrast to the few existing studies of this topic, the Author emphasizes the necessity to take into account the difference between the conscience and the superego, if the therapy is to be effective. The article focuses on the present...

Medical school curricula and postgraduate education programmes expend considerable resources teaching medical ethics. Simultaneously, whistleblowers' agitation continues, at great personal cost, to prompt major intrainstitutional and public inquiries that reveal problems with the application of medical ethics at particular clinical "coalfaces". Virtue ethics, emphasising techniques promoting an...