Bruce Rumbold
Biographic Data
| ID | 1260770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Rumbold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Rumbold |
| SIGNATURE | RUMBOLD B |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9582-1749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Listen up! In defence of a robust right to petition
Rights to petition occupy an unusual position in political theory. Legally speaking, few political rights are as long-established or ubiquitous. Yet, philosophers have rarely, if ever, engaged in a sustained analysis of their contents or justification. On the rare occasions when such rights have been discussed, they are also often treated with a degree of quietism, if not outright scepticism. If there is a right to petition, so the thinking goes,…
Does the Patterned View Avoid the Ideal Worlds Objection
Can we formulate a moral theory that captures the moral significance of patterns of group behaviour we cannot affect through our own action while at the same time avoiding the so-called ‘Ideal Worlds’ objection? In a recent article, Caleb Perl has argued that we can. Specifically, Perl claims that one view that does so is his Patterned View: roughly, you ought to act only in accordance with that set of sufficiently general rules that has optimal …
The ideal worlds objection
The Ideal Worlds objection is an objection that purports to identify a potentially fatal flaw in some of our most influential moral theories: including, among others, rule consequentialism, Kant's Law of Nature Formula of the Categorical Imperative and Scanlonian contractualism. In this article, I offer an account of the objection, a survey of some of the ways defenders of affected theories have sought to avoid it, and the problems that those res…
Understanding the outcomes of spiritual care as experienced by patients
In moving toward professionalising spiritual care in the healthcare system, as an equal partner in whole person care, it has become increasingly important to develop an evidence base for spiritual care interventions, their value and longer-term outcomes for those receiving this care. This study utilised hard copy questionnaires across five Australian general hospitals to investigate patient reported outcomes of in-patient spiritual care. The surv…
Spinoza’s Analysis of his Imagined Readers’ Axiology
Before presenting his own account of value in the Ethics , Spinoza spends much of E I Appendix and E IV Preface attempting to refute a series of axiological ‘prejudices’ that he takes to have taken root in the minds of his readership. In doing so, Spinoza adopts what might be termed a ‘genealogical’ argumentative strategy. That is, he tries to establish the falsity of imagined readership’s prejudices about good and bad, perfection and imperfectio…
Developing a death literacy index
Performing end-of-life care can be a catalyst for developing a capacity called death literacy. This study aimed to develop a comprehensive and useable measure of death literacy that has the potential to assess interventions with individuals, communities, and societies. Using a mixed methods approach, a Death Literacy Index was developed from personal narratives and input from practitioners and experts. Refined on a sample of 1330 Australians usin…
How is spiritual care/pastoral care understood and provided in general hospitals in Victoria, Australia? – Staff perspectives
There is strong movement worldwide towards the professionalisation of spiritual care in the healthcare system, accompanied by appropriate education pathways, defining of best-practice care models, and evidence-based practice. The aim of the study reported here was to explore the understanding and expectations of healthcare service staff, across the spectrum of staffing levels, in relation to the provision of spiritual care in their facility. It u…
What Spirituality Means for Patients and Families in Health Care
Funerals, memorials and bereavement care
A population survey finds that bereaved people draw upon diverse sources of support in their communities, from both formal services and informal networks of care. The formal service most frequently recognised by participants is provided by funeral directors. We outline some reasons for this, and explore one particular theme, memorialisation, in which funeral providers have traditionally been a lead discipline. Significant changes in memorialisati…
Memorialization Practices Are Changing
Although considerable research efforts have focused on bereavement outcomes following loss, there are few studies which address the role of memorialization, particularly as it relates to formal service provision. Currently the funeral, cemetery, and crematorium industries are observing a steady decline in traditional and formal memorialization practices. This study aims to identify current memorialization practices and emerging trends, highlight …
What sources of bereavement support are perceived helpful by bereaved people and why? Empirical evidence for the compassionate communities approach
AIMS: To determine who provides bereavement support in the community, what sources are perceived to be the most or least helpful and for what reason, and to identify the empirical elements for optimal support in developing any future compassionate communities approach in palliative care. DESIGN: A population-based cross-sectional investigation of bereavement experiences. Sources of support (informal, community and professional) were categorised a…
Towards a More Particularist View of Rights’ Stringency
For all their various disagreements, one point upon which rights theorists often agree is that it is simply part of the nature of rights that they tend to override, outweigh or exclude competing considerations in moral reasoning, that they have 'peremptory force' (Raz in The Morality of Freedom , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986, p. 192), making 'powerful demands' that can only be overridden in 'exceptional circumstances' (Miller, in Cruft, …
Privacy Rights and Public Information
Our subject is the nature and limits of individuals' rights to privacy over information that they have made public.1 Consider the following case. The UK and Republic of Ireland charity Samaritans provides a long-established and well-respected suicide-prevention telephone helpline. In 2014, Samaritans launched a web app called Radar, which aimed to detect signs of emotional distress or suicidal thoughts in Twitter posts. The idea was that you, as …
Is there a role for the funeral service provider in bereavement support within the context of compassionate communities
This is the first study to explore bereaved individuals' experiences of funeral service providers using these services' databases. A total of 839 Australians participated in a postal survey, 6-24 months into their bereavement. Funeral providers were reported to be the third most prevalent form of bereavement support after friends and family. Analysis found six themes related to perceived helpful or unhelpful support: instrumental support, profess…
Spinoza’s genealogical critique of his contemporaries’ axiology
Among Spinoza’s principal projects in the Ethics is his effort to “remove” certain metaethical prejudices from the minds of his readers, to “expose” them, as he has similar misconceptions about other matters, by submitting them to the “scrutiny of reason”. In this article, I consider the argumentative strategy Spinoza uses here – and its intellectual history – in depth. I argue that Spinoza’s method is best characterised as a genealogical analysi…
Who Needs Bereavement Support? A Population Based Survey of Bereavement Risk and Support Need
This study identifies and describes the profiles of bereavement risk and support needs of a community sample in Australia and tests the fit of the data with the three-tiered public health model for bereavement support. Family members who were bereaved 6-24 months prior to the survey and who were clients of four funeral providers participated (May-July 2013). A postal survey was used to collect information about bereaved people's experience of car…
Good Practice Chaplaincy
An assets-based approach to bereavement care
A survey of bereaved clients of four funeral providers in Australia confirms a public health model predicting that over half the group would demonstrate low risk of complicated grief, another third moderate risk, while a small minority would meet the criteria for prolonged grief disorder. The survey also shows differing patterns of need and sources of support for each of the three groups. While our findings support targeting the bereavement care …
Art as evidence
Exhibitions are frequently used to illustrate outcomes of arts therapy programmes, showcase community arts projects, and to gather research data. In this article we review some of the ethical dilemmas that arise in exhibiting client or participant artwork, and argue that attention to shared decision-making within an ethics of care framework is needed to ensure constructive ethical practice
Evidence in practice
This article examines the differing processes involved in forming evidence to guide practice in arts-based and in health-care disciplines. A social theory framework suggests that aesthetic reflexivity can link the rational and affective aspects of practice in both areas. Intentional communities of practice that incorporate both arts and health practitioners can develop evidence that will take into account both health system goals of recovery from…
Evidence in a different form
Arts and health practitioners, policy-makers and researchers were invited to a two-day search conference to talk about the nature of arts-based evidence, and ways of researching the impact of arts on health. Using a participatory enquiry process, participants shared stories of specific projects, discussed the aims, forms and politics of arts-based evidence, developed creative responses and practical strategies, and noted areas for further convers…
Bridging the Gaps in Palliative Care Bereavement Support
A review of palliative care policies and bereavement support practices in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan demonstrated 4 challenges: questions over providing universal versus targeted support; a lack of clear evidence driving service delivery; informal or no risk assessment; and limited or no evaluation of services. Bridging the gaps between the policy and practice of palliative care bereavement support requires ac…
Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare
Spirituality and healthcare is an emerging field of research. Healthcare organisations and practitioners are therefore challenged to understand and address spirituality, to develop their knowledge and implement effective policy. This reference text on the subject provides a comprehensive overview of key topics.
Priority-setting and rationing in healthcare
Shaping the future of integrated care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Priority-setting and rationing in healthcare
Developing a death literacy index
Performing end-of-life care can be a catalyst for developing a capacity called death literacy. This study aimed to develop a comprehensive and useable measure of death literacy that has the potential to assess interventions with individuals, communities, and societies. Using a mixed methods approach, a Death Literacy Index was developed from personal narratives and input from practitioners and experts. Refined on a sample of 1330 Australians usin…
Is there a role for the funeral service provider in bereavement support within the context of compassionate communities
This is the first study to explore bereaved individuals' experiences of funeral service providers using these services' databases. A total of 839 Australians participated in a postal survey, 6-24 months into their bereavement. Funeral providers were reported to be the third most prevalent form of bereavement support after friends and family. Analysis found six themes related to perceived helpful or unhelpful support: instrumental support, profess…
Privacy Rights and Public Information
Our subject is the nature and limits of individuals' rights to privacy over information that they have made public.1 Consider the following case. The UK and Republic of Ireland charity Samaritans provides a long-established and well-respected suicide-prevention telephone helpline. In 2014, Samaritans launched a web app called Radar, which aimed to detect signs of emotional distress or suicidal thoughts in Twitter posts. The idea was that you, as …
Does the Patterned View Avoid the Ideal Worlds Objection
Can we formulate a moral theory that captures the moral significance of patterns of group behaviour we cannot affect through our own action while at the same time avoiding the so-called ‘Ideal Worlds’ objection? In a recent article, Caleb Perl has argued that we can. Specifically, Perl claims that one view that does so is his Patterned View: roughly, you ought to act only in accordance with that set of sufficiently general rules that has optimal …
Bridging the Gaps in Palliative Care Bereavement Support
A review of palliative care policies and bereavement support practices in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan demonstrated 4 challenges: questions over providing universal versus targeted support; a lack of clear evidence driving service delivery; informal or no risk assessment; and limited or no evaluation of services. Bridging the gaps between the policy and practice of palliative care bereavement support requires ac…
The Spirituality of Compassion
The recent revival of interest in spirituality in later life marks a significant step forward in the person-centred care of ageing people. The benefits will, however, be of limited value if we do not attend to the settings in which spirituality is to be lived. In contemporary society many aged people are located in environments unsympathetic to spiritual belief and practice. Health care settings focus on professionally-assessed physical needs and…
Shaping the future of integrated care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare
Spirituality and healthcare is an emerging field of research. Healthcare organisations and practitioners are therefore challenged to understand and address spirituality, to develop their knowledge and implement effective policy. This reference text on the subject provides a comprehensive overview of key topics.
Priority-setting and rationing in healthcare
Bridging the Gaps in Palliative Care Bereavement Support
A review of palliative care policies and bereavement support practices in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan demonstrated 4 challenges: questions over providing universal versus targeted support; a lack of clear evidence driving service delivery; informal or no risk assessment; and limited or no evaluation of services. Bridging the gaps between the policy and practice of palliative care bereavement support requires ac…
Art as evidence
Exhibitions are frequently used to illustrate outcomes of arts therapy programmes, showcase community arts projects, and to gather research data. In this article we review some of the ethical dilemmas that arise in exhibiting client or participant artwork, and argue that attention to shared decision-making within an ethics of care framework is needed to ensure constructive ethical practice
Evidence in practice
This article examines the differing processes involved in forming evidence to guide practice in arts-based and in health-care disciplines. A social theory framework suggests that aesthetic reflexivity can link the rational and affective aspects of practice in both areas. Intentional communities of practice that incorporate both arts and health practitioners can develop evidence that will take into account both health system goals of recovery from…
Evidence in a different form
Arts and health practitioners, policy-makers and researchers were invited to a two-day search conference to talk about the nature of arts-based evidence, and ways of researching the impact of arts on health. Using a participatory enquiry process, participants shared stories of specific projects, discussed the aims, forms and politics of arts-based evidence, developed creative responses and practical strategies, and noted areas for further convers…
Who Needs Bereavement Support? A Population Based Survey of Bereavement Risk and Support Need
This study identifies and describes the profiles of bereavement risk and support needs of a community sample in Australia and tests the fit of the data with the three-tiered public health model for bereavement support. Family members who were bereaved 6-24 months prior to the survey and who were clients of four funeral providers participated (May-July 2013). A postal survey was used to collect information about bereaved people's experience of car…
Good Practice Chaplaincy
An assets-based approach to bereavement care
A survey of bereaved clients of four funeral providers in Australia confirms a public health model predicting that over half the group would demonstrate low risk of complicated grief, another third moderate risk, while a small minority would meet the criteria for prolonged grief disorder. The survey also shows differing patterns of need and sources of support for each of the three groups. While our findings support targeting the bereavement care …
Spinoza’s genealogical critique of his contemporaries’ axiology
Among Spinoza’s principal projects in the Ethics is his effort to “remove” certain metaethical prejudices from the minds of his readers, to “expose” them, as he has similar misconceptions about other matters, by submitting them to the “scrutiny of reason”. In this article, I consider the argumentative strategy Spinoza uses here – and its intellectual history – in depth. I argue that Spinoza’s method is best characterised as a genealogical analysi…
What sources of bereavement support are perceived helpful by bereaved people and why? Empirical evidence for the compassionate communities approach
AIMS: To determine who provides bereavement support in the community, what sources are perceived to be the most or least helpful and for what reason, and to identify the empirical elements for optimal support in developing any future compassionate communities approach in palliative care. DESIGN: A population-based cross-sectional investigation of bereavement experiences. Sources of support (informal, community and professional) were categorised a…
Towards a More Particularist View of Rights’ Stringency
For all their various disagreements, one point upon which rights theorists often agree is that it is simply part of the nature of rights that they tend to override, outweigh or exclude competing considerations in moral reasoning, that they have 'peremptory force' (Raz in The Morality of Freedom , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986, p. 192), making 'powerful demands' that can only be overridden in 'exceptional circumstances' (Miller, in Cruft, …
Privacy Rights and Public Information
Our subject is the nature and limits of individuals' rights to privacy over information that they have made public.1 Consider the following case. The UK and Republic of Ireland charity Samaritans provides a long-established and well-respected suicide-prevention telephone helpline. In 2014, Samaritans launched a web app called Radar, which aimed to detect signs of emotional distress or suicidal thoughts in Twitter posts. The idea was that you, as …
Is there a role for the funeral service provider in bereavement support within the context of compassionate communities
This is the first study to explore bereaved individuals' experiences of funeral service providers using these services' databases. A total of 839 Australians participated in a postal survey, 6-24 months into their bereavement. Funeral providers were reported to be the third most prevalent form of bereavement support after friends and family. Analysis found six themes related to perceived helpful or unhelpful support: instrumental support, profess…
Funerals, memorials and bereavement care
A population survey finds that bereaved people draw upon diverse sources of support in their communities, from both formal services and informal networks of care. The formal service most frequently recognised by participants is provided by funeral directors. We outline some reasons for this, and explore one particular theme, memorialisation, in which funeral providers have traditionally been a lead discipline. Significant changes in memorialisati…
Memorialization Practices Are Changing
Although considerable research efforts have focused on bereavement outcomes following loss, there are few studies which address the role of memorialization, particularly as it relates to formal service provision. Currently the funeral, cemetery, and crematorium industries are observing a steady decline in traditional and formal memorialization practices. This study aims to identify current memorialization practices and emerging trends, highlight …
How is spiritual care/pastoral care understood and provided in general hospitals in Victoria, Australia? – Staff perspectives
There is strong movement worldwide towards the professionalisation of spiritual care in the healthcare system, accompanied by appropriate education pathways, defining of best-practice care models, and evidence-based practice. The aim of the study reported here was to explore the understanding and expectations of healthcare service staff, across the spectrum of staffing levels, in relation to the provision of spiritual care in their facility. It u…
What Spirituality Means for Patients and Families in Health Care
Spinoza’s Analysis of his Imagined Readers’ Axiology
Before presenting his own account of value in the Ethics , Spinoza spends much of E I Appendix and E IV Preface attempting to refute a series of axiological ‘prejudices’ that he takes to have taken root in the minds of his readership. In doing so, Spinoza adopts what might be termed a ‘genealogical’ argumentative strategy. That is, he tries to establish the falsity of imagined readership’s prejudices about good and bad, perfection and imperfectio…
Developing a death literacy index
Performing end-of-life care can be a catalyst for developing a capacity called death literacy. This study aimed to develop a comprehensive and useable measure of death literacy that has the potential to assess interventions with individuals, communities, and societies. Using a mixed methods approach, a Death Literacy Index was developed from personal narratives and input from practitioners and experts. Refined on a sample of 1330 Australians usin…
Understanding the outcomes of spiritual care as experienced by patients
In moving toward professionalising spiritual care in the healthcare system, as an equal partner in whole person care, it has become increasingly important to develop an evidence base for spiritual care interventions, their value and longer-term outcomes for those receiving this care. This study utilised hard copy questionnaires across five Australian general hospitals to investigate patient reported outcomes of in-patient spiritual care. The surv…
Does the Patterned View Avoid the Ideal Worlds Objection
Can we formulate a moral theory that captures the moral significance of patterns of group behaviour we cannot affect through our own action while at the same time avoiding the so-called ‘Ideal Worlds’ objection? In a recent article, Caleb Perl has argued that we can. Specifically, Perl claims that one view that does so is his Patterned View: roughly, you ought to act only in accordance with that set of sufficiently general rules that has optimal …
The ideal worlds objection
The Ideal Worlds objection is an objection that purports to identify a potentially fatal flaw in some of our most influential moral theories: including, among others, rule consequentialism, Kant's Law of Nature Formula of the Categorical Imperative and Scanlonian contractualism. In this article, I offer an account of the objection, a survey of some of the ways defenders of affected theories have sought to avoid it, and the problems that those res…
Political science (16 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Health care (10 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (9 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Public relations (8 works)