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"Beyond copyright": law, conflicts and the quest for practical solutions
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Bridging Alone: Religious Conservatism, Marital Homogamy, and Voluntary Association Membership
This study characterizes social insularity of religiously conservative American married couples by examining patterns of voluntary associationmembership. Constructing a dataset of 3938 marital dyads from the second wave of the National Survey of Families and Households, the author investigates whether conservative religious homogamy encourages membership in religious voluntary groups and discourages membership in secular voluntary groups. Results indicate that couples’ shared affiliation with conservative denominations, paired with beliefs in biblical authority and inerrancy, increases the likelihood of religious group membership for husbands and wives and reduces the likelihood of secular group membership for wives, but not for husbands. The social insularity of conservative religious groups appears to be reinforced by homogamy—particularly by wives who share faith with husbands
The ethics of ‘Trials within Cohorts’ (TwiCs): 2nd international symposium - London, UK. 7-8 November 2016
On 7-8
th
November 2016, 60 people with an interest in the
‘
Trials
within Cohorts
’
(TwiCs) approach for randomised controlled trial design
met in London. The purpose of this 2
nd
TwiCs international symposium
was to share perspectives and experiences on ethical aspects of the
TwiCs design, discuss how TwiCs relate to the current ethical frame-
work, provide a forum in which to discuss and debate ethical issues
and identify future directions for conceptual and empirical research.
The symposium was supported by the Wellcome Trust and the NIHR
CLAHRC Yorkshire and Humber and organised by members of the
TwiCs network led by Clare Relton and attended by people from the
UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Canada and USA. The two-day sympo-
sium enabled an international group to meet and share experiences
of the TwiCs design (also known as the
‘
cohort multiple RCT design
’
),
and to discuss plans for future research. Over the two days, invited
plenary talks were interspersed by discussions, posters and mini pre-
sentations from bioethicists, triallists and health research regulators.
Key findings of the symposium were: (1) It is possible to make a
compelling case to ethics committees that TwiCs designs are ap-
propriate and ethical; (2) The importance of wider considerations
around the ethics of inefficient trial designs; and (3) some questions
about the ethical requirements for content and timing of informed
consent for a study using the TwiCs design need to be decided on
a case-by-case basis
Naming Names. The Transience of Individual Identity in Fifteenth-century Italian Portraiture
Richard E. Spear and Philip Sohm. Painting for Profit: The Economic Lives of Seventeenth-Century Italian Painters. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. xi + 384 pp. $85. ISBN: 978-0-300-15456-6.
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