Principle or Pathology? Adjudicating the Right to Conscience in the Israeli Military

American Anthropologist

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 81-94

  Weiss, Erica ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conscience; Ethics; Liberalism; Military

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSCIENCE; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; ISRAEL; LEGAL ASPECT; MORALITY; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOLDIER;

CONSCIENCE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; ISRAEL; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MORALS; POLITICS;

EID: 84858687904     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2011.01398.x     Document Type: Article

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