Medical Savings Account: Implications for consumer choice, individual responsibility and efficiency

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 07-14
Author(s):  
Mukherjee Kanchan ◽  
Thomas Levine ◽  
Quazi Syed Zahiruddin ◽  
Sanjay Zodpey
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Medical Savings Account

Mostly, do no harm: Representations of morality in the television medical drama The Resident

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-178
Author(s):  
Angelique Nairn ◽  
Justin Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Moral Ambiguity ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Do No Harm ◽  
Medical Drama

Television programmes continue to impart ‘narratives, consumer choice’ and ‘moral predispositions’, although there is conjecture among scholars over the influence of television on the formation of a moral viewpoint in audiences. These components allow consumers to evaluate the content of television shows in the light of their own cultural understandings of morality and then either accept or reject them. This article uses thematic analysis to reveal patterns in the representations of moral ambiguity in the first season of the television show The Resident (2018–present), a contemporary US-based television series that is broadcast to global audiences in a number of international territories. The series explores the intricacies of hospital management, patient care and medical ethics particularly in light of increasing commercial pressures within a US context. Our analysis shows that the series grapples with four main themes: do no harm, experts and egos, money muddies morality and good versus evil, and in doing so, interrogates the basis of implicit knowledge about right, wrong and individual responsibility in western culture.

The citizen in the smart city. How the smart city could transform citizenship

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martijn de Waal ◽  
Marloes Dignum
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
City Policy ◽  
Regional Systems Of Innovation ◽  
The City

AbstractSmart city-policy makers and technology vendors are increasingly stating they want to bring about citizen-centered smart cities. Yet, it often remains unclear what exactly that means, and how citizens are envisaged as actors in smart cities. This article wants to contribute to this discussion by exploring the relation between smart cities and citizenship. It aims to do this by introducing a heuristic scheme that brings out the implied notions of citizenship in three distinct sets of smart city visions and practices: The Control Room envisages the city as a collection of infrastructures and services; The Creative City views the city from the perspective of (economic) geography and ponders on local and regional systems of innovation; The Smart Citizens discourse addresses the city as a political and civic community. These smart city discourses are mapped against two visions on citizenship and governance taken from political philosophy. A `republican' perspective with strong presence in social-democratic countries is contrasted with a libertarian one, most prominent in Silicon Valley approaches to smart city technologies. This provides a scheme to reflect on potential benefits and downsides if a specific smart city discourse would develop. Instances of smart cities may promote notions of citizenship that are based on consumer choice and individual responsibility, alternatively they could also reinforce collective responsibilities towards the common good of society.

Consumer Choice Modeling via TOPSIS

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suresh K. Bhatt ◽  
Namita Bhatnagar ◽  
S. S. Appadoo
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Choice Modeling

Decision Making Styles and Consumer Choice

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Nygren ◽  
Rebecca White ◽  
Kristi Snuttjer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Decision Making Styles

Arousal Congruency and Consumer Choice

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Di Muro ◽  
Kyle B. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Choice
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