An ethical appraisal of living-anonymous kidney donation using Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.08.015
Abstract: Ethical debates continue to shape organ transplant policies, particularly for kidneys. Facing organ shortages, governments have created incentives targeting prospective living-anonymous donors - socially and biologically unrelated to the recipient. However, these policies may transform… read more here.
Keywords: living anonymous; kidney donation; smith; anonymous kidney ... See more keywords
Adam Smith on usury: An esoteric reading
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.08.031
Abstract: Abstract In this paper I approach one of Smith's most discussed exceptions to the liberty principle. Numerous authors have treated the tension between Smith's endorsement of a ceiling on interest rates and his system of… read more here.
Keywords: adam smith; ceiling; usury esoteric; smith usury ... See more keywords
Introduction: Advances in Palaeogeography
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DOI: 10.1017/s0016756818000390
Abstract: This special issue of Geological Magazine is dedicated to the memory of Dr Alan Gilbert Smith, Fellow of St John's College and Emeritus Reader in Geology at the University of Cambridge, who passed away on… read more here.
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Democracy and the Death of Shame: Political Equality and Social Disturbance. By Jill Locke. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 218p. $99.99 cloth, $28.99 paper.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592718000567
Abstract: through similar educational experiences; both lost their fathers early; both suffered mental crises brought on by excessive study; and both emerged with a sceptical attitude towards the power of reason. Hume had the more outgoing… read more here.
Keywords: smith; hume; publication; book ... See more keywords
Equality Beyond Debate: John Dewey’s Pragmatic Idea of Democracy. By Jeff Jackson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 306p. $105.00 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592719001646
Abstract: capacity to render us sociable (p. 151); and most innovatively, he reconstructs what a “legitimate” governmentmight look like for Smith, using arguments from the Lectures on Jurisprudence (pp. 204–10). Although Sagar’s debts to István Hont… read more here.
Keywords: rousseau; debate john; equality beyond; beyond debate ... See more keywords
Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision Making. By Morgan L. W. Hazelton and Rachael K. Hinkle. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2022. 275p. $32.95 paper.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592723000476
Abstract: Senator Claire McCaskill on sexual assault to her experiences both in college and in the military. Smith notes that Ernst, though “rated the second most conservative member of the Senate in 2019” (p. 112), proved… read more here.
Keywords: military service; war; quasi military; congress ... See more keywords
MtDNA mutations and aging—not a closed case after all?
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DOI: 10.1038/s41392-021-00479-6
Abstract: In a recent paper in Nature Cancer, Smith et al. demonstrate that mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations can confer a growth advantage to intestinal tumors by remodeling cell metabolism, particularly toward elevated de novo serine synthesis.… read more here.
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Smith’s practicality requirement meets dual-process models of moral judgment
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DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2017.1333093
Abstract: Abstract In The Moral Problem, Michael Smith argues that only motivational internalists can offer an adequate explanation of why changes in moral judgment tend to be accompanied by changes in motivation in morally virtuous people.… read more here.
Keywords: process models; smith; judgment; models moral ... See more keywords
“Just like a natural man”: The B.D. styles of Gertrude “Ma” Rainey and Bessie Smith
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DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2019.1562284
Abstract: Abstract This article pays homage to the antique term “B.D. (bulldyke) Woman” of the 1920s and 1930s, at a moment when the rise of a universal queer subject threatens to erase specific lesbian histories. Characterized… read more here.
Keywords: bessie smith; smith; rainey bessie; like natural ... See more keywords
Brian Stanley Smith (1932–2018)
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DOI: 10.1080/23257962.2019.1664440
Abstract: Brian Smith, former County Archivist of Gloucestershire, Secretary of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, and Chairman of the Society of Archivists, died on 3 November 2018, aged 86. He contributed significantly to the archives… read more here.
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Neil Smith's Scale
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DOI: 10.1111/anti.12254
Abstract: In this essay, part of a special issue acknowledging the scholarship of Neil Smith, we trace his contributions to conceptualizing scale. From his important foundational text, Uneven Development, to his later works that fashioned a… read more here.
Keywords: smith scale; neil smith; smith;