Ploughshare and pruning-hook; ten lectures on social subjects,

Great possessions. - Crime and punishment. - Christianity a danger to the state. - The salt of the earth. - The rights of majorities. - Discreditable conduct. - What is womanly? - Use and ornament. - Art and Citizenship. - Conscious and unconscious immortality.

Social environment and moral progress,

Mode of access: Internet.

Social rights and duties; addresses to ethical societies,

Some of the addresses have appeared in the International journal of ethics, the National review and the Contemporary review.

Practical philosophy of social life;

Mode of access: Internet.

Oration delivered before the biennial convention of the Alpha Delta Phi Society, at New Haven, Conn., Aug. 15, 1839, on the law and means of social advancement : published by order of the society /

Mode of access: Internet.

Social and ethical interpretations in mental development; a study in social psychology,

Mode of access: Internet.

Social morality : Twenty-one lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge /

Mode of access: Internet.

Social salvation

"The following lectures have been prepared for delivery, in March, 1902, before the students of the Divinity School of Yale University, upon the Lyman Beecher Foundation"--Pref.

Ethics of democracy; a series of optimistic essays on the natural laws of human society.

Mode of access: Internet.

Catholic ideals in social life, by Father Cuthbert.

Mode of access: Internet.

Christian ethics.

[v. 1. General ethics] tr. from the Danish by C. Spence.--[v. 2] Special part: pt. 1, Individual ethics, tr. from the author's German ed. by William Affleck; pt. 2, Social ethics, tr. from the author's German ed. by Sophia Taylor.

Predictive genetic test decisions for Huntington's disease: context, appraisal and new moral imperatives

Predictive testing is one of the new genetic technologies which, in conjunction with developing fields such as pharmacogenomics, promises many benefits for preventive and population health. Understanding how individuals appraise and make genetic test decisions is increasingly relevant as the technology expands. Lay understandings of genetic risk and test decision-making, located within holistic life frameworks including family or kin relationships, may vary considerably from clinical representations of these phenomena. The predictive test for Huntington's disease (HD), whilst specific to a single-gene, serious, mature-onset but currently untreatable disorder, is regarded as a model in this context. This paper reports upon a qualitative Australian study which investigated predictive test decision-making by individuals at risk for HD, the contexts of their decisions and the appraisals which underpinned them. In-depth interviews were conducted in Australia with 16 individuals at 50% risk for HD, with variation across testing decisions, gender, age and selected characteristics. Findings suggested predictive testing was regarded as a significant life decision with important implications for self and others, while the right not to know genetic status was staunchly and unanimously defended. Multiple contexts of reference were identified within which test decisions were located, including intra- and inter-personal frameworks, family history and experience of HID, and temporality. Participants used two main criteria in appraising test options: perceived value of, or need for the test information, for self and/or significant others, and degree to which such information could be tolerated and managed, short and long-term, by self and/or others. Selected moral and ethical considerations involved in decision-making are examined, as well as the clinical and socio-political contexts in which predictive testing is located. The paper argues that psychosocial vulnerabilities generated by the availability of testing technologies and exacerbated by policy imperatives towards individual responsibility and self-governance should be addressed at broader societal levels. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Surgical Theatre, Gifted Performances: The Changing Moral Economy of Surgical Training

Fred Hollows and his work to reduce blindness in Indigenous communities is an obvious example of benevolence of doctors and nurses towards patients while the role of the staff of burns units around Australia in treating the victims of the Bali bombing is another. Some different stories about benevolence in medicine, concerning the benevolence of patients towards trainee clinical staff are suggested.