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SUMMARY:Applied Ethics Graduate Discussion Group
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DESCRIPTION:2 presentations\, 1h each: \n\nStudent presenter: Noriko Katay
 ama (Uehiro St Cross Scholar/ PhD student University of Tokyo)\nTitle: Pat
 ient-to-Staff Violence and Relational Safety in Japan: An Ethical Challeng
 e in Post-Paternalistic Medicine\nAbstract: This presentation introduces a
  work-in-progress paper that forms part of the introductory chapter of my 
 doctoral thesis and is being developed for journal publication. The paper 
 examines patient-to-staff violence in healthcare as an ethical and social 
 issue in Japan.\nPatient violence against healthcare professionals is wide
 ly recognised as a growing problem\, yet existing approaches have addresse
 d it primarily through the lens of occupational safety. This presentation 
 proposes a different framing: patient violence is an ethical challenge con
 stitutively connected to the transformation of the patient–healthcare pr
 ofessional relationship in post-paternalistic medicine. Drawing on a longi
 tudinal literature review and historical analysis centred on Japan\, I arg
 ue that the emergence of this problem in the 1990s is inseparable from the
  shift toward patient-centred care—a genuine moral achievement that has 
 nonetheless left the burden of managing violence disproportionately on hea
 lthcare professionals. Engaging with Miranda Fricker’s concept of episte
 mic injustice\, I further examine why healthcare professionals’ experien
 ces remain systematically underacknowledged in public discourse. The prese
 ntation concludes by arguing for a relational ethics that takes seriously 
 vulnerability\, mutual recognition\, and responsibility within the patient
 –healthcare professional relationship.\n \nStudent presenter: Cristiano 
 Leon (UOI visiting student/ PhD student Sapienza University of Rome)\nTitl
 e: Sidgwick’s Disharmonious Utilitarianism\nAbstract: Henry Sidgwick is 
 generally regarded as one of the greatest moral philosophers of the ninete
 enth century. His reputation rests primarily on The Methods of Ethics\, a 
 work that has often been considered the most rigorous statement of classic
 al utilitarianism and that remains central to contemporary discussions of 
 moral philosophy. Consequently\, scholarship on Sidgwick has largely focus
 ed on his contributions to ethical theory\, particularly his intuitionism\
 , his non naturalism\, and his formulation of the dualism of practical rea
 son. In this paper\, I argue that such a reading is incomplete. Sidgwick w
 as not only a moral philosopher but also a political philosopher and an ec
 onomist. Alongside The Methods of Ethics\, he published two substantial wo
 rks\, The Elements of Politics and The Principles of Political Economy. Ye
 t these writings have rarely been integrated into a comprehensive interpre
 tation of his philosophy.
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