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Confounded Expectations: The Law's Struggle with Personal Responsibility » Read Now
by George W. Jarecke, Nancy K. Plant. 156 pgs.

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George W. Jarecke and Nancy K. Plant present a selection of cases across a broad spectrum of American law to demonstrate that t our society relies inappropriately on the legal system to cure ill the system was not designed to address.
Jarecke an Plant note that while we in the United States worry...
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George W. Jarecke and Nancy K. Plant present a selection of cases across a broad spectrum of American law to demonstrate that t our society relies inappropriately on the legal system to cure ill the system was not designed to address.
Jarecke an Plant note that while we in the United States worry considerably about the problem on individual assumption of responsibility -- whether for personal mistakes, financial setbacks, or pure bad luck -- we appear uneasy about he concept and unclear bout what it mens on a daily basis. Not only are we incapable of accepting personal responsibility; we barely know what it mens to do so.
Mistakenly, we turn to the legal system to solve this dilemma. Yet our laws as our legislators write them, and as juries apply them send mixed messages about whether and how we should exercise personal responsibility.
Each chapter of confounded Expectation features one main case ot explain one legal theory, with other cases noted as examples of facets of each theory. To demonstrate the law that requires merchants to guarantee the quality of their product, for example, Jarecke and Plant discuss the case of the band the whose fund-raising luncheon menu included turkey salad contaminated by samonella. Peripheral cases include a horse falsely sold as a gelding, a riding mower that tipped over when used as instructed, makeup that was gerodontia to be safe but caused a rash, and pigs sick with hog cholera.
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Speaking of Personal Responsibility and Individual Accountability...., in Health and Social Work » Read Now
by Sharon M. Keigher. 8 pgs.

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...Speaking of personal responsibility and individual accountability...followed by the party mantra: personal responsibility and individual accountability...pieces of...
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Toward a Caring Society: Ideas into Action (Chap. 5 "Practicing Care and Assuming Personal Responsibility") » Read Now
by Samuel P. Oliner, Pearl M. Oliner. 240 pgs.

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The Price of Life: The Future of American Health Care (Chap. 5 "An Individual's Responsibility for Health") » Read Now
by Robert H. Blank. 220 pgs.

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How can America become a healthy nation, Blank asks, when it is beset by poverty, illiteracy, and crime? No new health care system can succeed unless or until the links between social problems and sickness are understood-and addressed. On the national level, Blank calls for a more aggressive...
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How can America become a healthy nation, Blank asks, when it is beset by poverty, illiteracy, and crime? No new health care system can succeed unless or until the links between social problems and sickness are understood-and addressed. On the national level, Blank calls for a more aggressive redistribution of social and public health resources to the poor and elderly; at the same time, he describes sanctions that would encourage individuals to be more careful about their own health, and limit or change destructive behavior.
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Personal and Social Responsibility for Health, in Ethics & International Affairs » Read Now
by Daniel Wikler. 25 pgs.

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Individual Responsibility for Health: Decision, Not Discovery, in The Hastings Center Report » Read Now
by Scot D. Yoder. 9 pgs.

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Caring and Responsibility: The Crossroads between Holistic Practice and Traditional Medicine ("Individual Responsibility" begins on p. 37, and "The Shift in Personal Responsibility for Illness and Cure" begins on p. 123) » Read Now
by June S. Lowenberg. 296 pgs.

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Boundaries and Allegiances: Problems of Justice and Responsibility in Liberal Thought (Chap. 2 "Individual Responsibility in a Global Age") » Read Now
by Samuel Scheffler. 224 pgs.

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A Progressive Approach to Personal Responsibility for Global Beneficence, in The Monist » Read Now
by David Braybrooke. 21 pgs.

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Equality and Responsibility (Chap. 3 "What We Are Responsible For") » Read Now
by Christopher Lake. 172 pgs.

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Human Motivation (Chap. Six "Social Learning Theory and Personal Responsibility") » Read Now
by Bernard Weiner. 486 pgs.

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The Shaping of Nineteenth-Century Law: John Appleton and Responsible Individualism (Chap. 7 "Personal Responsibility in the Law of Torts") » Read Now
by David M. Gold. 234 pgs.

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John Appleton was a prominent American lawyer who practiced in and around Bangor, Maine, beginning in the early 1820s and earned a national reputation as Chief Justice of Maine's supreme court. Through a study of Appleton's life and thought, Gold shows how the commitment to individual liberty and...
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John Appleton was a prominent American lawyer who practiced in and around Bangor, Maine, beginning in the early 1820s and earned a national reputation as Chief Justice of Maine's supreme court. Through a study of Appleton's life and thought, Gold shows how the commitment to individual liberty and personal responsibility helped shape 19th-century American law. By tracing Appleton's life and law practice, the book addresses an aspect of early American culture that has received little attention--the nature of American individualism as embodied in the law.
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The Persistent Activist: How Peace Commitment Develops and Survives ("Maintaining the Belief in Personal Responsibility" begins on p. 65) » Read Now
by James Downton Jr., Paul Wehr. 186 pgs.

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