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    ‘My Fitbit Thinks I Can Do Better!’ Do Health Promoting Wearable Technologies Support Personal Autonomy?John Owens & Alan Cribb - 2019 - Philosophy and Technology 32 (1):23-38.
    This paper critically examines the extent to which health promoting wearable technologies can provide people with greater autonomy over their health. These devices are frequently presented as a means of expanding the possibilities people have for making healthier decisions and living healthier lives. We accept that by collecting, monitoring, analysing and displaying biomedical data, and by helping to underpin motivation, wearable technologies can support autonomy over health. However, we argue that their contribution in this regard is limited and that—even with (...)
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    Why Health and Social Care Support for People with Long-Term Conditions Should be Oriented Towards Enabling Them to Live Well.Vikki A. Entwistle, Alan Cribb & John Owens - 2018 - Health Care Analysis 26 (1):48-65.
    There are various reasons why efforts to promote “support for self-management” have rarely delivered the kinds of sustainable improvements in healthcare experiences, health and wellbeing that policy leaders internationally have hoped for. This paper explains how the basis of failure is in some respects built into the ideas that underpin many of these efforts. When support for self-management is narrowly oriented towards educating and motivating patients to adopt the behaviours recommended for disease control, it implicitly reflects and perpetuates limited and (...)
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    Engines of social mobility? Navigating meritocratic education discourse in an unequal society.John Owens & Tania de St Croix - 2020 - British Journal of Educational Studies 68 (4):403-424.
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    Whatever suits you: unpicking personalization for the NHS.Alan Cribb & John Owens - 2010 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16 (2):310-314.
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    What Justice, What Autonomy? The Ethical Constraints upon Personalisation.John Owens, Teodor Mladenov & Alan Cribb - 2017 - Ethics and Social Welfare 11 (1):3-18.
    This article considers the ethical dimensions of attempts to ‘personalise’ health and social care services in the UK. Personalisation is identified as closely related to efforts to introduce elements of neoliberal marketisation into public service provision, particularly through the introduction of consumer choice for services users. We consider two areas of ethical concern surrounding personalisation: its contribution to social justice agendas and the enhancement of service users’ autonomy. While personalisation in general, and consumer choice in particular, has been presented as (...)
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    IEEN workshop report: aims and methods in interdisciplinary and empirical bioethics.John Owens, Jonathan Ives & Alan Cribb - 2012 - Clinical Ethics 7 (4):157-160.
    Bioethics is a diverse field that accommodates a broad range of perspectives and disciplines. The recent explosion of literature on methods in interdisciplinary and empirical ethics might appear, however, to overshadow the fact that ‘bioethics’ has long been an interdisciplinary field. The Interdisciplinary and Empirical Ethics Network (IEEN) was established, with funding from the Wellcome Trust, to facilitate critical and constructive discussion around the nature of this disciplinary diversity and shift focus away from the ‘empirical turn’, towards the ongoing development (...)
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    Creation and End-Directedness.John F. Owens - 2010 - Sophia 49 (4):489-498.
    Does the act of creation show itself anywhere within the creation? A common contemporary ontology tends to see two possibilities for those who want to defend a notion of creation. The first is to argue that an original set of materials was brought into existence out of nothing by divine action a long time ago. The second, in the tradition of Paley, posits a specific divine action that oversees the development of some of the materials into entities with an end-directedness. (...)
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    Austerity and Professionalism: Being a Good Healthcare Professional in Bad Conditions.John Owens, Guddi Singh & Alan Cribb - 2019 - Health Care Analysis 27 (3):157-170.
    In this paper we argue that austerity creates working conditions that can undermine professionalism in healthcare. We characterise austerity in terms of overlapping economic, social and ethical dimensions and explain how these can pose significant challenges for healthcare professionals. Amongst other things, austerity is detrimental to healthcare practice because it creates shortages of material and staff resources, negatively affects relationships and institutional cultures, and creates increased burdens and pressures for staff, not least as a result of deteriorating public health conditions. (...)
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    Relative Values: Perspectives on a Neuroimaging Technology From Above and Within the Ethical Landscape.Gabrielle Samuel, Alan Cribb, John Owens & Clare Williams - 2016 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 13 (3):407-418.
    In this paper we contribute to “sociology in bioethics” and help clarify the range of ways sociological work can contribute to ethics scholarship. We do this using a case study of an innovative neurotechnology, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and its use to attempt to diagnose and communicate with severely brain-injured patients. We compare empirical data from interviews with relatives of patients who have a severe brain injury with perspectives from mainstream bioethics scholars. We use the notion of an “ethical landscape” (...)
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    Emerging themes in the everyday ethics of primary care: a report from an interdisciplinary workshop.John Gardner, Andrew Papanikitas, John Owens & Hilary Engward - 2011 - Clinical Ethics 6 (4):211-214.
    We report key themes arising from a postgraduate workshop organized by the King's Interdisciplinary Discussion Society (KIDS) held in April 2011. KIDS believe that health is a phenomenon that transcends disciplinary boundaries, and therefore issues relating to health care and medical ethics are best addressed with an interdisciplinary approach. The workshop, entitled ‘Everyday Ethics and Primary Healthcare’, included poster presentations and oral presentations from participants from a range of disciplines and occupational backgrounds which highlighted the challenges faced by primary health-care (...)
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    IEEN workshop report: Teaching and learning in interdisciplinary and empirical ethics.Jonathan Ives, John Owens & Alan Cribb - 2013 - Clinical Ethics 8 (2-3):70-74.
    Bioethics is an interdisciplinary field that accommodates a broad range of perspectives and disciplines. This inherent diversity sets a number of challenges for both teachers and students of bioethics, notably in respect to the appropriate aims and methods of bioethics education, standards and criteria for evaluating performance and disciplinary identity. The Interdisciplinary and Empirical Ethics Network (IEEN) was established, with funding from the Wellcome Trust, to facilitate critical and constructive discussion about the ongoing development of bioethics as an evolving field (...)
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    Aquinas’ Fifth Way.John Owens - 2020 - New Blackfriars 101 (1096):726-739.
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  13. Competing for the Human: Nietzsche and the Christians.John F. Owens - 2011 - The Australasian Catholic Record 88 (2):191.
    Owens, John F It is about sixty years since Frederick Copleston was required by the ecclesiastical censor to insert 'some unambiguous condemnation of Nietzsche' into a new edition of his 'Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher of Culture.' Copleston thought the work 'disfigured' as a result, sensing perhaps that the addition would reinforce crude misunderstandings of his subject. He was aware of something that probably passed the ecclesiastical censor by, that whatever is to be said of Nietzsche's relation to Christianity, it is not (...)
     
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  14. 8. Diessenting from Reality: The Denials of Evil.John F. Owens - 2004 - Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 7 (4).
     
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    Diessenting from Reality.John F. Owens - 2004 - Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 7 (4):133-149.
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    IEEN workshop report: Professionalism in interdisciplinary and empirical bioethics.John Owens, Jonathan Ives & Alan Cribb - 2014 - Clinical Ethics 9 (4):109-112.
    The Interdisciplinary and Empirical Ethics Network was established in 2012 with funding from the Wellcome Trust in order to facilitate critical and constructive discussion around the nature of the disciplinary diversity within bioethics and to consider the ongoing development of bioethics as an evolving field of interdisciplinary study. In April 2013, the Interdisciplinary and Empirical Ethics Network organized a workshop at the Centre for Public Policy Research, King’s College London, which discussed the nature and possibility of professionalism within interdisciplinary and (...)
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    Rorty, Religion, and Metaphysics.John Owens - 2019 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    This book examines Richard Rorty’s position that religious and metaphysical beliefs should simply be abandoned, and it proposes that Rorty’s position is contradicted by what is a fundamental part of every human life: the phenomenon of human recognition of other people.
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  18. Thinking about political things: An Aristotelian approach to Pacific life [Book Review].John F. Owens - 2016 - The Australasian Catholic Record 93 (3):381.
     
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    The God Whereof We Speak.John F. Owens - 2004 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 78 (1):83-97.
    D. Z. Phillips holds that we cannot ask a general philosophical question about the existence of God because we discover what it means for God to exist only from within particular linguistic contexts, especially those of prayer and worship. This raises the suspicion that God’s existence therefore depends on a particular language-use, as does the existence of cultural objects like prices or the equator. The article suggests that Phillips’s position overlooks the peculiar status of other persons in our discourse, and (...)
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    The Obligations of Irony: Rorty on Irony, Autonomy, and Contingency.John Owens - 2000 - Review of Metaphysics 54 (1):27 - 41.
    RICHARD RORTY’S IDEAL CHARACTER, THE “IRONIST,” is simultaneously committed to two different projects. The first is the repudiation of metaphysics, implying the abandonment of all philosophical or theological efforts “to achieve universality by the transcendence of contingency.” This first project is not so remarkable anymore, the twentieth century having seen any number of attempts to bring metaphysics to a close. But the second project has been gathering speed only in the last few decades. It is described as the attempt to (...)
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    The sign and its trespass: Signs, presence, and metaphysics in Kevin Hart.John Owens - 1999 - Sophia 38 (2):36-53.
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    Conflict in Medical Co-Production: Can a Stratified Conception of Health Help? [REVIEW]John Owens & Alan Cribb - 2012 - Health Care Analysis 20 (3):268-280.
    This paper considers proposals for developing ‘co-productive’ medical partnerships, within the UK National Health Service (NHS), concentrating in particular on the potential problem involved in combining professional and lay conceptions of health. Much of the literature that advocates the introduction of co-productive healthcare partnerships assumes that medical professionals and patients share, or can easily come to share, a common set of beliefs about what is valuable with regard to health interventions and outcomes. However, a substantial literature documents the contestability of (...)
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