http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/6603 2026-06-26T11:06:19Z 2026-06-26T11:06:19Z Pereira, S.F. PaiVernekar, S.D. http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/7885 2026-06-15T10:54:12Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ethical dilemmas and decision-making processes in healthcare rationing within resource-scarce environments: a critical analysis Pereira, S.F.; PaiVernekar, S.D. Ethical dilemmas arise in healthcare rationing when the allocation of limited resources for care and the making of difficult decisions are involved. Similar situations occur in resource-scarce environments such as public hospitals in Goa, India. In this context, allocating clinical care resources is hindered by poor infrastructure, including a lack of consistent clinical protocols and unclear ethical guidance for healthcare practitioners in cases of potentially resource-rationing decisions. A Textual-Analytic Mixed Method (TAMM) containing secondary data from books, academic texts, policy documents, and news media. The oxygen crisis at Goa Medical College was a sobering reminder of the need to develop ethical frameworks and prepare for contingencies. Health practitioners implementing informal clinical processes based on urgency rather than formal triage criteria inevitably allow for bias and moral distress. To combat these situations, health practitioners need more formal ethical training, formal triage policies, possibly multidisciplinary review boards, and decentralized supply systems. If health practitioners are relying on institutional ethics to guide them in decision-making, the institution and the conditions of care must also be strong and ethical. Only then will health practitioners be accountable for fair decisions, and people will understand the difficulty of that accountability for care-oriented decision-making during crises when resources are limited.

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Revankar, S.S. PaiVernekar, S.D. http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/7884 2026-06-15T05:44:38Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Revankar, S.S.; PaiVernekar, S.D. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly become integral to decision-making systems across domains such as hiring, finance, education, and law enforcement. While Al promises efficiency and scalability, it also introduces several ethical challenges. This paper examines the problem of algorithmic bias, focusing on how AI systems could amplify structural inequalities embedded in historical data. Using the Amazon hiring algorithm (2018) as a central case study, the paper demonstrates that Al tools are not impartial but socially situated technologies. It explores demographic parity, equal opportunity, and merit-based fairness in AI resource allocation. The paper also addresses issues of opacity, accountability, and loss of human agency associated with AI systems. It concludes that without fairness-aware design, transparency, and regulatory intervention, AI risks automating discrimination at scale while undermining democratic principles and natural justice.

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Tharakan, K. http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/7869 2026-06-01T09:19:49Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Merleau-Ponty on the Phenomenology of the Social World Tharakan, K. The social world is the object of investigation of the social sciences or the human sciences. The common ground for any phenomenological philosophy of social sciences is the life-world (Lebenswelt). Husserl is concerned with the demonstration and explanation of the activities of consciousness of the transcendental subjectivity within which the lifeworld is constituted. Two pioneers of phenomenological philosophy of social sciences are Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Alfred Schutz. In this article, we discuss Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of the social world by relating it to the contours of Husserlian phenomenology. In doing so, we take up for discussion Merleau-Ponty's notion of the 'Primacy of Perception' and its relation to the notion of the body; self and the other; community and the role of dialogue in understanding the social world.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Tharakan, K. http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/7843 2026-04-24T07:25:22Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred Schutz and the Phenomenology of the Human Condition Tharakan, K.

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