The Ethics of Powerlessness
Between April -June 2019, EoP delivered CDP training modules on ‘Moral Distress’ to hospices across the East of England (St Helena, Colchester; St Francis, Romford; St Lukes, Basildon; Arthur Rank, Cambridge). These modules have been highly rated by staff across a wide range of roles within the hospice setting. For more details, or if you would like to register your interest, see: https://powerlessness.essex.ac.uk/moral-distress
A Joint Technical Report of The Essex Autonomy Project & The Ethics of Powerlessness Project, University of Essex
Prof. Béatrice Han-Pile recently appeared on the BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’ with Melvyn Bragg. A podcast of the programme is available here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00017vl
Béatrice Han-Pile, our principal investigator, has given an interview about the Ethics of Powerlessness for David Maclean in IAI news.
Our 2018 end of year conference, ‘Virtues of Powerlessness? Faith, Love and Hope in a Secular World’ took place at Senate House, London on Friday and Saturday 15th and 16th of June, 2018.
In this Green Paper we shall provide an overview of the difficulties involved not only in responding effectively to addiction but in understanding the nature of the condition. In particular, we shall focus our attention on a major question in the literature: to what extent, if at all, are addicts disempowered by their addiction?