Refuse

Management of treatment refusal can be legally and ethically complicated. Patients may refuse various types of treatment, including medications, group and individual psychotherapy,...

Ce livre s’inscrit dans le débat contemporain sur l’actualité de la philosophie des Lumières discutant en particulier, par le biais des images de Spinoza au XVIIIe siècle, des gran...

This chapter explores Tacitus’ reading of the question of the relationship of the individual to empire in the Agricola. Tacitus constructed an understanding of Rome’s empire as a t...

This introduction reviews the history and biography of David Drake and establishes key questions addressed in the remainder of the collection. The collection as a whole asks: Who i...

A central challenge motivates this work: How, if at all, can philosophical ethics help in the moral development of health professionals? Bandman's three-part response is to argue, ...

In this chapter, it is argued that a pivotal episode in Esther, Mordecai’s refusal to bow to Haman, is to be read literarily, as a topos, rather than literally, as a historical eve...

Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) terrified audiences through its convincing depiction of shark attacks off the coast of the New England island Amity. A great white shark terrorizes b...

A groundbreaking study about everyday antiblackness and its refusal in an officially raceblind France. What does it mean to be racialized-as-black in France on a dai...