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As well as being a philosophy professor, Almond sought to present her particular view of individual rights to a wider public. She argued regularly for maintenance of the “welfare of the child provision” when legislation was crafted to reflect the changing technologies of birth and raised ethical
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on the difficult balance of health and safety over risk and freedom. “What is clear”, she wrote, “is that in the absence of a vaccine or cure, the virus will increasingly move towards the centre of the world stage”. Almond went on to write a book setting out key debates in the area called
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in 1983 part of a conscious strategy of moving philosophy away from abstract and abstruse debates towards issues that affect people in their everyday lives. Almond’s writing highlights issues like health and family and social relations. In 1987, at a time when
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Almond argued that ultimately the freedom to opt out of the education system altogether must be protected, as well as the freedom to choose a religious education in a secular state, or a secular education in a religious state in
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In later years, Almond moved on to issues such as biotechnologies and even debates about who and what constituted a “legitimate target” during a war. In an opinion piece for the magazine
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