This article probes the ethicality of standard electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) research, examining the politics of the questions asked, the criteria used, and the treatment of participants. In the process it walks the reader...
As robot reasoning becomes more complex, debugging becomes increasingly hard based solely on observable behaviour, even for robot designers and technical specialists. Similarly, non-specialist users have difficulty creating...
This paper explores the ethics of archival research by reflecting on the challenges of doing research with highly descriptive and gruesome archived testimonies of torture. This reflection leads me to unpack the character of...
In this article, we ask critical questions and reflect upon ethics and praxis for racialized practitioners working alongside Indigenous communities in the human services field. Acknowledging the lack of scholarship across the...
This article tells the story of our movement towards using participatory approaches in an action research project aiming to understand the experiences and impacts of belonging to learning communities that span prison...
Informed consent (IC), as the process of sharing information between patients and clinicians before undertaking a medical treatment, signals a number of ‘good intentions’. IC, in its theoretical formulation, can be seen...
The idea of God in Levinas is resonant of the First Testament: a voice fromhigher above that clamors: Thou shall not kill; the unsettling call of the Infinitethat commands us to leave the familiar towards the unknown, like...
A salient if under researched feature of the new age of global inequalities is the rise to prominence of entrepreneurial philanthropy, the pursuit of transformational social goals through philanthropic investment in projects...
As robot reasoning becomes more complex, debugging becomes increasingly hard based solely on observable behaviour, even for robot designers and technical specialists. Similarly, non-specialist users have difficulty creating...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to greatly improve the delivery of healthcare and other services that advance population health and wellbeing. However, the use of AI in healthcare also brings potential...
A salient if under researched feature of the new age of global inequalities is the rise to prominence of entrepreneurial philanthropy, the pursuit of transformational social goals through philanthropic investment in projects...
In this paper I examine how dominant social work discourses use representational violence to maintain binary helper/helped identities, often through evacuating relational or partially shared narratives that might instead be...
Bazaars are often seen as a type of market where there is little scope to engage in moral behaviour. Yet salesmen in Aleppo’s bazaar before the current conflict were not amoral actors who related to their customers in narrowly...
Participatory governance is upheld as a fundamental organizing principle in community entrepreneurship. This paper brings new insights from a case study that investigated how governance structures, processes, and practices, and...
In this paper, I examine Kearney's call for an ethical imagination from a specifically Levinasian perspective. I begin by reviewing Kearney's proposal, querying the structure of his ethical imagination. I then give a brief...
Risk pervades contemporary discourses surrounding and describing homeless youth. Deemed to be at risk and vulnerable to a range of dangers related to living on the street as well as risky due to their delinquent behaviours...
BACKGROUND: There is growing awareness of the burden of post-TB morbidity, and its impact on the lives and livelihoods of TB affected households. However little work has been done to determine how post-TB care might be delivered...