Saxion University of Applied Sciences

About: Saxion University of Applied Sciences is a education organization based out in Enschede, Netherlands. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Health care & Context (language use). The organization has 390 authors who have published 653 publications receiving 8859 citations. The organization is also known as: Saxion University of Applied Sciences.

My Brother’s Keeper: A New Phase in the Debate on Corporate Responsibility

Abstract: In this article, we analyse whether it is possible to hold a loosely organised collective responsible for the effects it has on others. We consider the possibility of holding a loosely organised collective responsible by comparing it with a well-organised collective such as a corporation, a joint action (a collective lacking a formal organisation) and an aggregate. We explore the concept of responsibility of a loosely organised collective by analysing a concrete example: the responsibility of the major oil producers for climate change. We will argue that it is possible to apply the concept of responsibility to such loosely organised collectives. To understand this responsibility it is necessary to decouple the concept of responsibility from the concept of acting and to develop forward-looking (prospective) ethics. We will argue that individuals and organisations belonging to a loosely organised collective have a joint responsibility: to some extent, they are each other’s brother’s keeper.

Hospitable Non-verbal Staff Behaviour as a Means to Create Value to Customers

Abstract: Background and aim:Service providers need to be competent in the provision of hospitality. However, the question is, how to operationalize the experience of hospitality? Existing literature shows l...

Methodisch podotherapeutisch handelen voor voet- en/of enkelklachten bij mensen met een reumatische aandoening

Abstract: Voet-, en enkelproblemen zijn een veelvoorkomend probleem bij mensen met een reumatische aandoening. Ze leiden vaak tot pijn en beperkingen in functioneren en hebben daardoor effect op de kwaliteit van leven. Er lijkt een grote variatie te zijn in het behandelen van de voet- en enkelproblemen door podotherapeuten bij mensen met een reumatische aandoening. Om meer uniformiteit te krijgen en de kwaliteit van zorg te verbeteren, is het methodisch podotherapeutisch handelen (MPH) voor mensen met een reumatische aandoening uitgewerkt en geevalueerd in de praktijk. Podotherapeuten ervaarden het MPH als ondersteunend bij het klinisch redeneren. Barrieres zijn in kaart gebracht en dienen aangepakt te worden voorafgaande aan landelijke implementatie. Of het gebruik van het MPH ook voor de patient van meerwaarde is, moet in nader onderzoek nog worden vastgesteld.

The Uses of Reason in Times of Technical Mediation.

Abstract: The art of living idiom suits well a practice-oriented approach in ethics of technology. But what remains or becomes of the functioning and use of reason in ethics? In reaction to the comments by Huijer this reply elaborates in more detail how Foucault's art of living can be adapted for a critical contemporary ethics of technology. And the aesthetic-political rationality in Foucault's ethics is compared with Wellner's suggestions of holding on to the notion of code but with a new meaning. Foucault's fourfold scheme of subjectivation and a distinction of "below and above reason" structure the argument.