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    New York, NY : Springer US | New York, NY : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585274454
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 233 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Information Systems ; Economics ; Criminology ; Social sciences. ; Electronic data processing—Management. ; Operations research. ; Criminology. ; Business. ; Management science.
    Abstract: In a world where technology is continually advancing, and problems are becoming more and more complex, established practices for decision making and problem solving are no longer effective. In this new book, however, Enid Mumford draws on her wealth of experience in management, business schools, and working with the police and other professional problem solvers to show us how to tackle complex problems efficiently. With drugs and cyber-crime as her main examples Professor Mumford shows how these topical, yet apparently permanent problems, could be approached. She does this by looking at how the criminals themselves have overcome legal obstacles, and other problems to make the drug trafficking industry the second largest in the world today, and the relative newcomer, electronic fraud, a multi-billion dollar problem already. These crimes, which in themselves lead to more crime from petty theft to support a drug habit, to international money laundering, are incredibly complex, and yet the book shows us that there is not only a way forward with these issues, but a way to approach all complex problems with efficiency and competency, wherever they occur in our lives
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401147668
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 290 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: European Studies of Population 5
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Geography ; Statistics ; Population ; Demography ; Demography. ; Population. ; Population—Economic aspects. ; Geography. ; Statistics .
    Abstract: This book is about the transition to modernity of population forecasting. In many countries interest in the future course of population was kindled by debates on the population problem since the turn of the 19th century. The debates were alternately caused by fear of the economic consequences of over-population, by anxiety regarding the strategic demographic aspects of population decline, the decline of the national elite, or by the menace of imminent race suicide. Because population debates tended to be based on emotion rather than `objective' arguments, some economists and statisticians felt the need for a better understanding of population dynamics and its effect on the development of future population. Their pursuit of objectivity in population debates resulted in the development of a forecasting methodology based on the findings of life table theory and analytical demography. The innovation of forecasting methodology was greatly helped by improved public statistics: the published data of population censuses and ever-extending time series of demographic rates. At the same time the speculative nature of the resulting studies of future population provided an obstacle to the advancement of modern population forecasting by representatives of those schools of statistics, where the focus was on the reliability and trustworthiness of public statistics in the first place. In the 1930s the innovation and propagation of knowledge of modern forecasting methodology received a new stimulus when it became clear that the new methodology could easily be applied in preliminary town planning research and urban and regional policy-making. This book recounts the history of the origin and establishment of modern population forecasting methodology and the resistance the new methodology met with. It demonstrates - using George Herbert Mead's philosophy of time - that the emergence of modern population forecasting resulted in a drastic change of the societal position of the forecaster, the consequences of which still resound today. The book uncovers the first contributions to the description and theory of the demographic transition in the publications of the early innovators of population forecasting. It lays bare the pioneering position of inter-war population forecasting in The Netherlands and clarifies why the innovative endeavours of Dutch population forecasters of that period nevertheless remained hidden in international histories. This book will be of interest to scient ...
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    New York, NY : Springer US | New York, NY : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585296012
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 265 p)
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    Series Statement: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Economics ; Sociology ; Sociology. ; Education. ; Business. ; Management science. ; Public health.
    Abstract: This book demonstrates how and why morality can result in extremist behavior and advocates what the author calls `critical idealism' as a way of life. The author discusses radical elements of the feminist, civil rights, and `medicalist' movements as examples of the contemporary drift toward intolerance and incivility and demonstrates how idealism can contribute to misleading and dangerous behavior in some cases but in the right hands can result in positive social action
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585276243
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 323 p)
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    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 11
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Economics ; Political science ; Ethics. ; Business. ; Management science. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Education, Leadership and Business Ethics: New Essays on the Work of Clarence Walton includes a history and anecdotes of Clarence Walton's professional and personal life; a discussion of the controversial introduction of ethics into the field of management studies; contributions on a variety of subjects connected to leadership and business ethics from experts in the field; and critical essays reviewing Clarence's most recent work in social criticism. The book gives a history of the rise of the fields of business and society and business ethics, details the events leading to its acceptance in academic circles and gives personal accounts by Clarence Walton, one of the people most responsible for its creation. Intended target groups are students, former academic peers, and friends of Clarence Walton, as well as anyone interested in the history of business ethics or connected to Columbia University of America, or The American College
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    Dordrecht : Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585323152
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 254 p)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 57
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics. ; Medicine—History. ; Ethics.
    Abstract: This volume reprints in a scholar's edition the first English-language texts on bioethics, John Gregory's (1724-1773) Observations on the Duties and Offices of a Physician and on the Method of Prosecuting Enquiries in Philosophy (London, 1770) and Lectures on the Duties and Qualifications of a Physician (London, 1772). Five previously unpublished manuscripts of Gregory's lectures are also included. An introduction places Gregory's medical ethics and philosophy of medicine in their eighteenth-century contexts of Scottish Enlightenment history and culture, Baconian science and philosophy of medicine, medical practice, the feminine and feminist philosophy of the Bluestocking Circle, and moral sense philosophy, particularly David Hume's concept of sympathy, and provides a bibliography of primary and secondary sources as an aid to teaching and future scholarship. The book's index provides access to Gregory's texts, by using both historical terms and current terminology of bioethics. A volume in the subseries Classics of Medical Ethics
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    ISBN: 9780585271620
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 347 p)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 56
    DDC: 610.1
    Keywords: Medicine ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics
    Abstract: This is the first book-length scholarly study of the medical ethics of John Gregory (1724-1773), who wrote the first English-language bioethics. This book shows how Gregory invented professional medical ethics and, in the process, the concept of the profession of medicine as a fiduciary profession. Making extensive use of manuscript and other primary sources, the book provides the first complete intellectual biography of Gregory, placing his medical ethics in its eighteenth-century contexts of Scottish Enlightenment history and culture, Baconian science and philosophy of medicine, medical practice, the feminine and feminist philosophy of the Bluestocking Circle, and moral sense philosophy, particularly David Hume's concept of sympathy. A detailed examination of his texts on medical ethics is followed by a consideration of the implications of Gregory's medical ethics for contemporary bioethics, especially feminist bioethics. This book is intended for scholars, teachers, and students of bioethics, medical ethics, the history of medicine, and the history of medical ethics
    Description / Table of Contents: ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401151863
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxi, 315 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 73
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy. ; Ethics.
    Abstract: During the last two decades, applied ethics has not only developed into one of the most important philosophical disciplines but has also differentiated into so many subdisciplines that it is becoming increasingly difficult to survey it. A much-needed overview is provided by the eighteen contributions to this volume, in which internationally renowned experts deal with central questions of environmental ethics, bioethics and medical ethics, professional and business ethics, social, political, and legal ethics as well as with the aims and foundations of applied ethics in general. Thanks to a philosophical introduction and selected bibliographical references added to each chapter, the book is very well suited as a basis for courses in applied ethics. It is directed not only to philosophers and to ethicists from other disciplines but to scientists in general and to all people who are interested in the rational discussion of moral principles and their application to concrete problems in the sciences and in everyday life
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    ISBN: 9789401155304
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 312 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Philosophy ; History ; Ethics ; Medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Ethics. ; Bioethics. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; History.
    Abstract: 1 Everything Includes Itself in Power: Power and Coherence in Engelhardt’s Foundations of Bioethics -- 2 Not All Peace is Peace: Why Christians Cannot Make Peace With Engelhardt’s Peace -- 3 Medicine’s Monopoly: From Trust-Busting to Trust -- 4 Engelhardt’s Communitarian Ethics: The Hidden Assumptions -- 5 Monopoly with Sick Moral Strangers -- 6 Beyond Forbearance as the Moral Foundation for a Health Care System: An Analysis of Engelhardt’s Principles of Bioethics -- 7 Engelhardt’s Analysis of Disease: Implications for a Feminist Clinical Epistemology -- 8 The Magic Mountain: A Prelude to Engelhardt’s Phenomenology of Illness -- 9 Persons, Property or Both? Engelhardt on the Moral Status of Young Children -- 10 Tris Engelhardt and the Queen of Hearts: Sentence First; Verdict Afterwards -- 11 The Foundations of The Foundations of Bioethics: Engelhardt’s Kantian Underpinnings -- 12 Engelhardt, Historicism and the Minimalist Paradox -- 13 The Unjustifiability of Substantive Liberalisms and the Inevitability of Engelhardtian Procedural Liberalism -- 14 Secular? Yes; Humanism? No: A Close Look at Engelhardt’s Secular Humanist Bioethics -- 15 The Foundations of Bioethics and Secular Humanism: Why Is There No Canonical Moral Content? -- About the Authors -- About the Editors -- Publications by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Everything Includes Itself in Power: Power and Coherence in Engelhardt’s Foundations of Bioethics2 Not All Peace is Peace: Why Christians Cannot Make Peace With Engelhardt’s Peace -- 3 Medicine’s Monopoly: From Trust-Busting to Trust -- 4 Engelhardt’s Communitarian Ethics: The Hidden Assumptions -- 5 Monopoly with Sick Moral Strangers -- 6 Beyond Forbearance as the Moral Foundation for a Health Care System: An Analysis of Engelhardt’s Principles of Bioethics -- 7 Engelhardt’s Analysis of Disease: Implications for a Feminist Clinical Epistemology -- 8 The Magic Mountain: A Prelude to Engelhardt’s Phenomenology of Illness -- 9 Persons, Property or Both? Engelhardt on the Moral Status of Young Children -- 10 Tris Engelhardt and the Queen of Hearts: Sentence First; Verdict Afterwards -- 11 The Foundations of The Foundations of Bioethics: Engelhardt’s Kantian Underpinnings -- 12 Engelhardt, Historicism and the Minimalist Paradox -- 13 The Unjustifiability of Substantive Liberalisms and the Inevitability of Engelhardtian Procedural Liberalism -- 14 Secular? Yes; Humanism? No: A Close Look at Engelhardt’s Secular Humanist Bioethics -- 15 The Foundations of Bioethics and Secular Humanism: Why Is There No Canonical Moral Content? -- About the Authors -- About the Editors -- Publications by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
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    New York, NY : Springer US | New York, NY : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585346496
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 476 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Economics ; Political science ; Sociology ; Labor economics. ; Sociology. ; Economics. ; Political science.
    Abstract: As China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia become world economic powers, questions arise regarding the fate of workers in these countries. This book examines the difficult road traveled by human rights movements in these nations when trying to create independent labor organizations free from governmental interference. The in-depth treatment includes: a worker's rights/labor standards model individumental interference comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle ally crafted for each of these nations comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle China's problems as it moves from complete state economic control to a modified form of capitalism
    Description / Table of Contents: PrologueChina -- The Political and Economic Background -- The Industrial Relations Scene: The Players, Problems, and Prospects -- The ACFTU, Labor Law, and Labor Reform -- The Law, Contracts, Strikes, and Dispute Settlement -- Worker Rights Issues -- Indonesia -- A Political, Economic, and Demographic Overview -- Unions, Employers, and Labor Market Developments -- The Legal Framework -- Labor Disputes and International Pressures -- Thailand -- The Institutional Background -- The Labor Law Framework -- Labor-Management Relations -- Worker Rights Issues -- International Developments -- Malaysia -- Political Events, Economic Facts, and Demographic Variables -- The Law and the Reality -- Labor Relations: Structure, Process, and Practice -- Unresolved Issues -- Malaysia and the World Scene -- Epilogue.
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    New York, NY : Springer US | New York, NY : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585304526
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 271 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Archaeology ; Archaeology.
    Abstract: This volume presents an insightful critical analysis of the culture history approach to Americanist anthropology. Reasons for the acceptance and incorporation of important concepts, as well as the paradigm's strengths and weaknesses, are discussed in detail. The framework for this analysis is founded on the contrast between two metaphysics used by evolutionary biologists in discussing their own discipline: materialistic/populational thinking and essentialistic/typological thinking. Employing this framework, the authors show not only why the culture history paradigm lost favor in the 1960s, but also which of its aspects need to be retained if archaeology is ever to produce a viable theory of culture change
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    New York, NY : Springer US | New York, NY : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585256573
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 216 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences. ; Public health.
    Abstract: By assuming it is possible to understand regression analysis without fully comprehending all its underlying proofs and theories, this introduction to the widely used statistical technique is accessible to readers who may have only a rudimentary knowledge of mathematics. Chapters discuss: -descriptive statistics using vector notation and the components of a simple regression model;-the logic of sampling distributions and simple hypothesis testing; -the basic operations of matrix algebra and the properties of the multiple regression model; -testing compound hypotheses and the application of the regression model to the analyses of variance and covariance, and -structural equation models and influence statistics
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    New York, NY : Springer US | New York, NY : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585295626
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 320 p) , ill., maps
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    Series Statement: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Archaeology ; Archaeology.
    Abstract: Chesapeake Prehistory is the first book in almost a century to synthesize the archaeological record of the region offering new interpretations of prehistoric lifeways. This up-to-date work presents a new type of regional archaeology that explores contemporary ideas about the nature of the past. In addition, the volume examines prehistoric culture and history of the entire region and includes supporting lists of radiocarbon assays. A unique feature is a reconstruction of the dramatic transformation of the regional landscape over the past 10-15,000 years
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1 Archaeology and the Chesapeake""; ""Chapter 2 The Idea of the Past""; ""Chapter 3 Natural History of the Chesapeake Region Past and Present""; ""Chapter 4 The Paleoindian Period Deep Time and the Beginning of Prehistory""; ""Chapter 5 The Archaic Adjustment and Experiment""; ""Chapter 6 The Woodland Period Expansion, Chiefdoms, and the End of Prehistory""; ""Chapter 7 Old Traditions and New Directions""; ""References""; ""Index""
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401103992
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 274 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 8
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Industrial management ; Ethics. ; Management.
    Abstract: Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as private business since business activities have widespread and sometimes far-reaching impacts on the community. The side-effects of entrepreneurial decision making - increasing unemployment, for instance, or pollution - increasingly expose corporations to the public gaze, with management in the limelight. Facing Public Interest opens up new vistas on business policy and corporate communications facing public interest. The relationship between private enterprise and public interest is subjected to an ethical examination, highlighting the role of the general public as a locus of morality for business and the guiding concept of a corporate dialogue between management and the concerned public. Instructive case studies are also presented. The volume not only proposes corporate dialogue: it puts into practice. Business leaders, representatives of citizens' groups, public affairs consultants, and academics discuss the topics thoroughly and thoughtfully in the best contributions to the seventh conference on the European Business Ethics Network, held at the University of St. Gallen in September 1994
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    ISBN: 9780585274447
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 238 p)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 49
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; History ; Ethics. ; History. ; Medicine—History. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: The Codification of Medical Morality, the second volume in a two-volume survey of pre-twentieth century modern medical ethics, presents fresh historical research and philosophical analyses of the evolution of medical ethics in nineteenth century America and the development of a different, but parallel, tradition of medical jurisprudence in nineteenth century Britain. These original papers are supplemented by reprints of: the first American Code of medical ethics, the Boston Medical Police of 1808; and an unabridged version of the American Medical Association's 1847 Code of Ethics; and the second (1886) edition of Jukes Styrap's Code of Ethics - a Code which, although officially rejected by the British Medical Association, nonetheless defined the `done thing' for British practitioners in the last decades of the nineteenth century
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    New York, NY : Springer US | New York, NY : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585275741
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 414 p) , ill. (some col.), maps
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Archaeology ; Archaeology. ; Anthropology.
    Abstract: This well-illustrated book reflects upon two decades of excavation and research at the Turner Farm site in Maine, and details its rich diversity of organic and cultural remains spanning 5,000 years of coastal occupation
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