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This Element offers a broad perspective on responsibility for health. This includes responsibilities in the prevention of disease and accidents, and in the creation of healthcare for all. The professional responsibilities of physicians and nurses are explored, and so are the responsibilities that we all have for our own health. Many of the central problems in healthcare ethics are discussed from a responsibility perspective, for instance pater...

Richard Eden's Decades (1555) has long been recognised as a landmark in the translation and circulation of information concerning the Americas in England. What is often overlooked in Eden's book is the presence of the first two Tudor voyage accounts to have been committed to print, assembled in haste and added late in the printing process. Both concern English commercial ventures to the West African coast, undertaken despite vehement Portugues...

An exploration of the history of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration from Thatcher's preparations until the present day, C. L. Lim offers an accessible, highly readable account of the intricate legal issues that continue to hold great significance. Using British archival sources, the book considers the ongoing debate over the Joint Declaration.

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This Element aims to critically examine the philosophical thought of Im Yunjidang (1721-93), a female Korean Neo-Confucian philosopher from the Chosæon dynasty (1392-1910), and to present her as a feminist thinker. Unlike most Korean women of her time, Yunjidang had the exceptional opportunity to be introduced to a major philosophical debate among Korean Neo-Confucians, which was focused on two core questions - whether sages and commoners shar...

Persistence realism is the view that ordinary sentences that we think and utter about persisting objects are often true. Persistence realism involves both a semantic claim, about what it would take for those sentences to be true, and an ontological claim about the way things are. According to persistence realism, given what it would take for persistence sentences to be true, and given the ontology of our world, often such sentences are true. A...

A Survey. Law, Human rights, International relations, international organisations

A Survey. Law, Human rights, International relations, international organisations

Forms of foreign intervention around elections differ markedly in terms of when and why they occur, and their legality. This book examines their potential to influence what the authors see as a critical, but understudied, audience: citizens in the countries where elections are held.

The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, edited by Eleonore Stump and her friend and former teacher Norman Kretzmann (1998), appeared almost thirty years ago. In the time since the publication of that volume, an enormous amount of research on Aquinas's thought has appeared. The time is right, then, for a redoing of that Companion volume. But because so much time has elapsed since the first Companion volume appeared, it was not feasible just to revi...

Combines natural science and philosophy to attract academic and general readers interested in philosophical questions about who we are and how we are connected. By investigating current trends in genomic research, Our Genes illustrates the potential and the limitations of genes to inform our sense of identity.

This book is the first systematic account of China's great-power diplomacy launched under President Xi Jinping. Revealing the foreign policy motive and patterns of the world's leading rising power and second largest economy, it will appeal to scholars of Chinese foreign policy, international relations, and Chinese politics.

This book is the first systematic account of China's great-power diplomacy launched under President Xi Jinping. Revealing the foreign policy motive and patterns of the world's leading rising power and second largest economy, it will appeal to scholars of Chinese foreign policy, international relations, and Chinese politics.

Embark on a captivating language journey with "Ud¿benik bosanskoga jezika, " a dynamic textbook specially designed to engage children and young adults in the exciting process of learning the Bosnian language. Whether your young learners are new to the language or already have some basics, this comprehensive and visually appealing textbook makes language acquisition an enjoyable experience.