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... to citizen representatives and their potential to impede the ability of agencies to meet social a... urge citizens to serve as community advocates. Staff felt the most effective role for citizens w...Science, Technology & Human Values, 25, 3-29. . Sewell, W.R.D., & Phillips, S....
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... around the world regularly use the term human dignity when deciding cases about freedom of speec...Inherent dignity focuses on human potential--not the exercise of such potential. It does not j..., as the examples below demonstrate, advocates of this view will often suggest that it best respe...
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... turning our attention to the potentially perverse impact of transnational corporations, ins...Transnational advocates participating in these three processes have been p...
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By Angela Carter Register Staff
HARTFORD -- Individuals who live in nursing facilities, but prefer to receive long-term care at home, require affordable housing arrangements coupled with any needed medical or social services, experts said Wednesday.
... John Rio, senior program associate with Advocates for Human Potential, and Lisa Sloane, senior assoc...
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Human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research has been touted for over a decade due to its potential to provide great improvements in healthcare, including finding cures for millions of people with debilitating and degenerative diseases. However, this research comes at a perceived moral price because it requires scientists to destroy embryos, the beginnings of human life. Newer scientific methods can be even more controversial because they involve creating embryos specifically for research purposes and mixing human and animal genes. Nations have divided sharply in their approaches toward allowing, funding, and regulating various aspects of hESC research. The United States takes a conservative approach, allowing moral concerns to drive much of its policy. The current framework in the United ...
....'65 The National Academies of Science advocates that therapeutic cloning may actually be more ethi...
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To avoid extinctions and other harms to ecological health from escalating climatic change, scientists, resource managers, and activists are considering and even engaging in "assisted migration" -- the intentional movement of an organism to an area in which its species has never existed. This article explores the profound implications of climate change for American natural resource management through the lens of this controversial adaptation strategy. It details arguments regarding the scientific viability and legality of assisted migration under the thicket of laws that govern natural resources in the US. The article explains why contemporary natural resource law's fidelity to historic baselines, protecting preexisting biota, and shielding nature from human activity is increasingly unte...
... odds over whether the uncertainties and potential ecological risks of assisted migration prevent it ...For conservation advocates, it is likely to be particularly disconcerting. Ma...
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...DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Servic... should be sent to James Winarski; Advocates for Human Potential; 323 Boston Post Road; Sudbury...
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...Some ecological thinkers argue that humanity, or "civilization," is soon to face massive ecolog... ideals of freedom, but as environmental advocates have long argued, sustainability may ultimately de...The potential for increasingly destructive competition among sta...
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...Advocates of regionalism suggest that fragmented governments... or conflicting interests among potential partners in a joint venture. . Thus a network repr... as well (Ring and van de Ven 1994; Human and Provan 2000), suggesting that sharing informat...
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... other states and that it also honors basic human rights. But it is constitutionally nonliberal in t... quite different from that presumed by advocates of the cosmopolitan ideal. A proper grasp of the d...The problem is not that it is potentially too interventionist as it might be thought. On the...