Understanding the ethical dimension of life

Sayer, Andrew

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511734779.005

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“…The findings of this study resonate with recent work in social theory by Andrew Sayer, who has argued ‘people's relation to the world is one of concern’ (Sayer 2011: 1) because ‘we are sentient beings who can flourish or suffer’ (Sayer 2011: 3). According to Sayer, the act of valuing, or making evaluations of everyday experiences, is foundational to being human and what matters to people should be central to analysis of social behaviour.…”

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confidence: 87%

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Participation in advanced age: enacting values, an adaptive process

2016

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The concept of participation, introduced through models such as the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, has become increasingly important in health and social care. However, it has not been consistently defined or operationalised, and there is very limited research into participation in the context of advanced age and disability. This article reports a study which explored participation from the perspectives of communityliving people aged over 80 years with physical rehabilitation needs. Using a grounded theory methodology, 11 participants aged 81 to 96 years were recruited from a National Health Service Trust in the United Kingdom. The main finding was that participation was experienced as the enacting of values. Values provided the motivation for specific ways of participating in life, guided actions and behaviours, and were the means through which participation was interpreted. Commonly enacted values were: connecting with others; maintaining autonomy; affirming abilities; doing the best you can; being useful; maintaining self-identity, and pursuing interests. A process was evident whereby participation was challenged by deteriorating health and losses and the participants adapted (or not) to overcome these challenges. To promote participation in advanced age, health and social care policy and practice must consider the values important to older people. Interventions should be congruent with these values and promote strategies through which they can be enacted.

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confidence: 87%

“…The relation between values and particular valuations is thus recursive. (Sayer 2011: 25)It is possible for health and social care professionals to gain access to an individual's personal values – what matters to them. Values are not arbitrary but stem from reasoned responses to the challenges of everyday living.…”

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confidence: 99%

Participation in advanced age: enacting values, an adaptive process

2016

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“…More generally, the topic of existing moralities in capitalist society is increasingly recognized as a key topic in anthropology and sociology (Heintz 2009;Hitlin and Vaisey 2010;Sayer 2011;Fassin 2012), as well as in economics and moral psychology (Gintis et al 2006;Doris et al 2010). Yet, research which empirically investigates moral matters with reference to the everyday economic practices and related issues of class relations, surplus appropriation, power and poverty remain rare (Browne and Milgram 2009;Mandel and Humphrey 2002), especially outside debates about consumption, Fair Trade or cases such as organ transplants (Sanal 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

Money Talks: Moral Economies of Earning a Living in Neoliberal East Africa

Wiegratz

Česnulytė

2015

New Political Economy

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“…Though a notoriously slippery concept (Hayry 2004 ; Mattson and Clark 2011 ) it derives, in part at least, from receiving full due respect for one’s contributions to any endeavour. Sayer, for example, argues that dignity is associated with, amongst other conditions, ‘respect, pride, recognition, worth and standing or status’ and is negatively related to ‘shame, stigma…lack of recognition or trust’ ( 2011 , p. 192). A relational notion of dignity suggests ‘the idea of dignity as something crucial yet fragile which depends on how people act and how others treat them; indeed, as if it depended on its being recognised’ ( 2011 , p. 192).…”

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Rendered invisible? The absent presence of egg providers in U.K. debates on the acceptability of research and therapy for mitochondrial disease

Haimes

Taylor

2015

Monash Bioeth. Rev.

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Techniques for resolving some types of inherited mitochondrial diseases have recently been the subject of scientific research, ethical scrutiny, media coverage and regulatory initiatives in the UK. Building on research using eggs from a variety of providers, scientists hope to eradicate maternally transmitted mutations in mitochondrial DNA by transferring the nuclear DNA of a fertilised egg, created by an intending mother at risk of transmitting mitochondrial disease, and her male partner, into an enucleated egg provided by another woman. In this article we examine how egg providers for mitochondrial research and therapy have been represented in stakeholder debates. A systematic review of key documents and parliamentary debates shows that the balance of consideration tilts heavily towards therapeutic egg providers; research egg providers have been ignored and rendered invisible. However, mapping the various designations of therapeutic egg providers shows that their role is so heavily camouflaged that they have only an absent presence in discussions. We explore this puzzling ambivalence towards egg providers whose contributions are necessary to the success of current mitochondrial research and proposed therapies. We suggest that labels that diminish the contributions of egg providers serve certain governance objectives in managing possible future claims about, and by, therapeutic egg providers. We demonstrate that the social positioning of research egg providers is entangled within that of therapeutic egg providers which means that the former can also never receive their due recognition. This article contributes to the wider literature on the governance of new technological interventions.

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Understanding the ethical dimension of life

Cited by 89 publications

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Participation in advanced age: enacting values, an adaptive process

Participation in advanced age: enacting values, an adaptive process

Money Talks: Moral Economies of Earning a Living in Neoliberal East Africa

Rendered invisible? The absent presence of egg providers in U.K. debates on the acceptability of research and therapy for mitochondrial disease

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