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CONNECTING VALUES TO ACTION

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CONNECTING VALUES TO ACTION: NON-CORPOREAL ACTANTS AND CHOICE

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CHRISTOPHER M. HARTT

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Acknowledgements

This work would not exist without my wife Gretchen Pohlkamp (co-author of Chapter 8). She supports my work not just emotionally but also through reading, commenting, suggesting improvements and most importantly, pointing out the parts that are incomprehensible. It is likely that no one would understand my ideas without her input.

In addition, I’d like to thank all the co-authors who have become friends. Each has come aboard the project in the manner of a team: reviewing and making suggestions on each other’s chapters and the volume as a whole. They bought into my vision of a coherent tome, not quite one voice but voices in conversation. Special mention should be given to Jean Helms Mills who mentored me through the Sobey PhD program and along with Gabie Durepos, Amy Thurlow and Albert Mills helped me understand where my ideas came from and how they fit in the literature.

As I worked on this project over the past couple of years I realised that the impetus for the line of thought may come from something my boss from 1986 to 1996 at The Victoria General Hospital who would say, ‘Logic is not a useful tool’. Since logic was my primary tool, this frustrated me but over time I began to realise that decisions are rarely made solely on logos. Ethos (character) and pathos (emotions) play a significant and frequently larger role, so thank you to all of the illogical decision makers in our health care system.

Finally, I thank my children Joshua and Noah Pohlkamp-Hartt. Parenting is an experience which provides many opportunities to recognise the lack of logic in our decisions. Our boys have provided me with insight into the illogical decisions of others by recognising the complete lack of careful thinking in many of my own. Reflexive analysis of my own stupidity has been a great learning experience. Providentially, they are resilient; and I am the proud father of two grown men, generally immune from my decisions, enrolling their own NCAs and reflecting on their own choices.

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