Browsing Masters Theses by Author "Wein, Sheldon, 1948-"

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Conceptualizing Alzheimer's patients : issues of autonomy and personal identity

Lidstone, Faye (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2005)

The standard view of people who get Alzheimer's disease is that, while remaining the same person throughout the progression of the disease, they gradually lose their autonomy (and only cease to be the same person when they ...
From gender to equality : the ethics of equality promotion in Canadian development policy

Richard, Julie Katherine (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)

Is it every ethically acceptable to conduct development projects in countries or under conditions which enforce discriminatory policies against women? The following study examines the role of Canadian development policy ...
Morality : creating right and wrong

Smith, Gary (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2002)

It is my objective, in this thesis, to present an imagined process by which the human species could have come to objectively value certain forms of moral principles from the ground of subjective self interest and thereby ...
The pharmaceutical industry and human well being : Argentina and TRIPS

Malloy, Lindsay Anne (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)

This thesis examines the barriers intellectual property law poses for a implementing a just pharmaceutical patent system. Specifically, challenges produced by the WTO’s TRIPS agreement for developing countries, with respect ...
Protecting the civilian in zones of conflict : the case of the war in the former Yugoslavia and humanitarian relief personnel as human rights activists

Kingsland, Karen Beverley (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1998)

This thesis is a two part study of justice. The trauma of conflict in developing countries which has resulted in deprivation that increase their vulnerability to further conflict is becoming an increasing challenge to those ...