Index Catalog // ScholarsArchive@OSU

Ethics and Human Biomedical Enhancement : A Case for Compatibilism

Creator:: White, Benjamin A.
Abstract:: This thesis explores some of the ethical issues pertaining to the use of so-called radical enhancement technology. Key concepts analyzed include “normal function”, “human being”, and “personhood.” I argue that the use of these key concepts in the debate thus far has lacked philosophical rigor, and that a reexamination of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Allen Thompson This thesis explores some of the ethical issues pertaining to the use

A Practical, Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Shale Gas Extraction Process

Creator:: Bullock, Claude George, III
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction process through a pluralistic philosophical approach. Rather than defending traditional values in nature, such as intrinsic value, I defend a metaphilosophical pragmatism centered on policy implications. I argue that different philosophical positions will, most of the time,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturine and the Shale Gas Extraction Process. Abstract approved Allen

Selected phases of England's arts and crafts program applied to industrial arts in the United States

Creator:: Godard, Lauren Francis
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: applied to industrial arts in the United States AN ABSTRACT OF TE THESIS OF Lauren Francis Godard for

Democracy as exemplified by the western powers and by the Soviet Union in the reorientation of youth in occupied Germany

Creator:: Cate, Donald Francis
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: r A ABSTRACT OF TI TISIS OF Donald Francis Cate forthe

Towards meaningful intercultural interactions: a case study of service-learning in a business writing classroom

Creator:: Sprague, Allen
Abstract:: The following thesis presents a case study analyzing a service-learning project implemented in a second-year level Writing in Business course at Oregon State University. The classroom project required business writing students to serve as cultural ambassadors and conversation partners with international students through INTO OSU's Cultural Ambassador Conversant Program. Relying...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Allen Sprague for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented

Allocation in Health Care : Antecedent Conditions and Catholic Insights

Creator:: Hosford, Laura L.
Abstract:: This research was aimed at providing the foundation for changing standards of care in a critical care setting using Catholic concepts of respect for human dignity, subsidiarity, common good, and solidarity as a matter of social justice. I first unpacked the nature of ICU care and the inevitability of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: unpacked by Allen Verhey and “Who Shall Live When Not All Can Live” by James Childress. I also relied

Little houses on the prairie : a predictive model of French-Canadian settlement in Oregon's Willamette Valley

Creator:: Kinoshita, Jun R.
Abstract:: Using GIS, this study creates a predictive model of a distinct population of French-Canadian settlers, highlighting shared environmental characteristics of known sites that may have factored into their decision-making process as they chose locations for their farmsteads. While traditional historic and archaeological research has been conducted on French Prairie, the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: received a great deal of attention in archaeological circles (Allen et al. 1990; Darsie et al. 1985; Judge

Civic agriculture : the successes, trials, and future of the local food movement in the Willamette Valley

Creator:: Klingensmith, Thomas S.
Abstract:: This study investigated the local and sustainable food movements in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The aim of the research was to better understand the current condition of the phenomenon, what it means to the communities studied and the future role it will play in the state. Other research objectives...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: for this kind of radical innovation to take place (Allen 2004). Many of these movements are still in

The expansion of Catholicism : an exploration of St. Joseph's College, the first Catholic boarding school for boys within the Oregon territory

Creator:: Hill, Cayla L.
Abstract:: St. Joseph's College was located within St. Paul, Oregon, the first Roman Catholic mission in the Pacific Northwest. The St. Paul mission was finally established in 1839 by Father Francois Blanchet, four years after the French-Canadian settlers in the area, appropriately known as French Prairie, had requested the presence of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: River, in order to establish the agreed-upon mission, St. Francis Xavier, located north of the

Reproductive decision-making in young women breast cancer survivors

Creator:: Everson, Courtney Louise
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to use an integrated biocultural perspective to examine the decision-making processes of young survivors as they navigate breast cancer treatment and reproductive health care options. This retrospective study utilizes a mixed-methods approach that integrates quantitative survey data (Phase I) with interview (Phase II) and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: treatment decision-making (Baucom et al. 2005, 2006; Duffy, Allen and Clark 2005; Partridge et al. 2004

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Ethics and Human Biomedical Enhancement : A Case for Compatibilism

A Practical, Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Shale Gas Extraction Process

Selected phases of England's arts and crafts program applied to industrial arts in the United States

Democracy as exemplified by the western powers and by the Soviet Union in the reorientation of youth in occupied Germany

Towards meaningful intercultural interactions: a case study of service-learning in a business writing classroom

Allocation in Health Care : Antecedent Conditions and Catholic Insights

Little houses on the prairie : a predictive model of French-Canadian settlement in Oregon's Willamette Valley

Civic agriculture : the successes, trials, and future of the local food movement in the Willamette Valley

The expansion of Catholicism : an exploration of St. Joseph's College, the first Catholic boarding school for boys within the Oregon territory

Reproductive decision-making in young women breast cancer survivors

Limit your search

Academic Affiliation

Advisor

Commencement Year

Committee Member

Creator

Date

Decade

Degree Field

Degree Level

Degree Name

File Format

Language

License

Non-Academic Affiliation

Peer Reviewed

Resource Type

Rights Statement

Subject

Search Constraints

Search Results

Limit your search