On Rights

There appears to me to be a lot of confusion surrounding our concept of Rights, and much of this seems to me to have to do with a failure of understanding and communication, both individually and collectively. Because there seems to me to be a great deal of imprecision when people refer to Rights, with…
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Practicalities and criticism

I wish I could remember where I first heard of Matthew Arnold. I recall encountering a long quotation from what is likely his most famous work, Culture and Anarchy,1 when reading another book and being drawn to it. (I thought it was quoted in Albert Camus’ The Rebel.2 However, I found from its re-read that…
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AI art and culture

I’m certainly no fan of AI art.i To most concisely capture my opinion on the matter, you can borrow the sentiment I’ve repeatedly seen circulating on social media, attributed to one Joanna Maciejewska: “I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do…
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Patient-centred care in Opioid Agonist Therapy

Over the past few years of pharmacy practice, I’ve felt increasingly unheard and unsupported in my attempts at best practice.i This feeling has been pronounced when attempting to advocate for my patients, most strongly when involving my patients on Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT).ii The problem as I best understood it upon reflection had a lot…
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