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29 Monday Aug 2011

Posted by Marnina Norys in Ethics, Marnina Norys, Philosophy, Taoism

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There’s a passage in the book of Tao that reads: “Failing Tao, man resorts to virtue Failing Virtue, man resorts …

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Marnina Norys

Has a PhD in Social and Political Thought at York University. Her dissertation is about the impact of technological rationality on professional caregiving, with an eye to psychiatric care specifically. The content here is varied, ranging from philosophy to pedagogical strategies, with entries on relationships and relatedness along the way.

Above the title you will find links to Norys’ public talks and below are links to download some of her papers and a sample course outline.

1. PhD Thesis "Mere Sources of Error": Workers, Patients and the Reductive Logic of Rationalized Healthcare

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Book reviews

A Hole in the Head
Happy Pills in America From Miltown to Prozac
Open Love, Sex and Life in an Open Marriage
Relative Stranger Piecing Together a Life Plagued by Madness

Course Outline

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Papers (Hover over titles for paper description)

Adolf Meyer and American Psychiatry
Beautiful Women Without Pity: An critical analysis of histrionic personality disorder
Deriving oughts from is's in psychiatry
Kathleen Wilkes on Thought Experiments in Philosophy
Nozick's take on the JTB conception of knowledge
Phronesis and Taoism
Psychopathy: Madness or Badness?
Welfare vs. Autonomy: The Scott Starson Case

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