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Transplantation and the Nature of the Immune Self
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-02)There are many theories regarding the nature of the immune self. However, existing theories have not accounted for the clinical experience of transplantation. Kidney transplantation provides a unique opportunity to examine ... -
Understanding “What Could Be”: A Call for ‘Experimental Behavioral Genetics’
(Springer, 2018-08-13)Behavioral genetic (BG) research has yielded many important discoveries about the origins of human behavior, but offers little insight into how we might improve outcomes. We posit that this gap in our knowledge base stems ... -
Utilitarian Cops: Jeremy Bentham and The Rise of Modern Policing
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-29)It is widely accepted that modern policing first came into existence with a bill passed in 1829, establishing the Metropolitan London Police under British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel. It is Peel after all, who has been ... -
Values and Co-production: Examining the Interface of Indigenous Peoples’ Understandings and Scientific Understandings
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-31)In this thesis I will examine the role values play in the co-production of knowledge between traditional knowledge and science. In order to understand the role values play, I will first develop clearer definitions of ... -
Virtue Ethics and Rational Disabilities: A Problem of Exclusion and the Need for Revised Standards
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-05)When we develop accounts of the good life we inevitably need to work with simplified images of human beings so as to limit the ideas our account must grapple with. Yet, in the process of this simplification we often exclude ... -
White Paper: Measuring Research Outputs Through Bibliometrics
(University of Waterloo, 2016)This White Paper provides a high-level review of issues relevant to understanding bibliometrics, and practical recommendations for how to appropriately use these measures. This is not a policy paper; instead, it defines ...