Sökning: "Utilitarianism"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Utilitarianism.

1. 11. Prescribing drugs in primary health care - Thoughts, information strategy and outcome

   Författare :Ingmarie Skoglund; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Utilitarianism; prescribing medication; evidence-based medicine; general practitioner; pharmaceutical therapy; guide lines; drug information services; primary health care; multilevel models; pharmaceutical industry; attitudes; behaviour; public authority drug information; prompt and pragmatic benefit; drug and therapeutic committee; implementation;

   Sammanfattning : Aims: General aim; to investigate whether tailored evidence-based drug information provided to general practitioners can be implemented more effectively than evidence-based drug information provided as usual. Specific aims; to describe general practitioners’ (GPs) thoughts on prescribing medication and evidence-based drug information: to explore GPs’ attitudes on drug information: to investigate whether tailored evidence-based drug information can influence these attitudes differently or the prescribing behaviour more effectively than drug information provided as usual. LÄS MER

3. 12. Changing preferences : A study in preferentialism

   Författare :Krister Bykvist; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; preference utilitarianism; preferences; consequentialism; intrinsic value; timepartiality; contingent preferences; population ethics; actualism; Filosofi; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; Practical Philosophy; praktisk filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with preferentialism, a family of theories claiming that moral considerationsshould be based entirely on preferences. The emphasis is on preference utilitarianism,according to which preferences determine the values of outcomes and these values determinewhat we should do. LÄS MER

4. 13. The “Good Child” and Nation-Building in Japan: Faith, Equality and Utilitarianism in The First Japanese Primary School Reader

   Författare :Martin Nordeborg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Japanese language; education; Meiji; nation-building; identity; discourse; dialogism;

   Sammanfattning : Education is said to be one of the cornerstones of bringing a people together, of building a nation. The Fundamental Code of Education in 1872 (Gakusei) envisioned a common school for all children in Japan. Although the implemention would take time, the feudal division of learning was now to be replaced by a national network of schools. LÄS MER

5. 14. Modrande och praxis: en feministfilosofisk undersökning : Mothering and praxis : a feminist philosopphical investigation

   Författare :Ulla M Holm; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mothering; Ethics; Social pratice ; Praxis; Care; Habitus; Ruddick; Aristotle;

   Sammanfattning : This feminist-philosophical treatise on mothering is concerned with what mothers typically do in nursing children and caring for them. It inquires into the norms they follow and the values and virtues they embrace, not merely in this society but in all societies in which children are cared for. LÄS MER

7. 15. Future generations : A challenge for moral theory

   Författare :Gustaf Arrhenius; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; future generations; population theory; population ethics; axiology; welfare; moral theory; social choice theory; impossibility theorems; Filosofi; Practical philosophy; Praktisk filosofi; Practical Philosophy; Praktisk filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : For the last thirty years or so, there has been a search underway for a theory that canaccommodate our intuitions in regard to moral duties to future generations. The object ofthis search has proved surprisingly elusive. The classical moral theories in the literature allhave perplexing implications in this area. LÄS MER