This is a reposting of an article from La Via Campensina: International Peasant’s Movement. Please visit their website for more information. El Salvador has had the highest rate of femicide in the world, with 2, 250 femicides between 2010 and 2013. Guatemala … Continue reading
There have been recent reports on the over-medicalization of older individuals in nursing homes and assisted living residences. This problem is not a new one. Just imagine: you are overworked and there is not enough staff to take care of … Continue reading
Okay, so no surprise that “beneath its reasonably serene surface, the website can be as ugly and bitter as 4chan and as mind-numbingly bureaucratic as a Kafka story.” And perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised that only 10% of its … Continue reading
Okay, so no surprise that “beneath its reasonably serene surface, the website can be as ugly and bitter as 4chan and as mind-numbingly bureaucratic as a Kafka story.” And perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised that only 10% of its … Continue reading
Read about it at The Daily Beast, featuring commentary from Eva Kittay: “Criminalizing these women can lead to the sort of horror stories we hear in the U.S. of pregnant addicts being forced to go cold turkey, to being locked up, … Continue reading
I was shocked when I recently learned about the existence of such a ban. As to doubling down on it now, the title of this Slate article pretty much says it all. See also these reflections from Chemicals like retabolil, but levitra … Continue reading
Students gave professors they thought were male [in online courses where gender identity was altered without students’ knowledge] much higher evaluations across the board than they did professors they thought were female, regardless of what gender the professors actually were. … Continue reading
Catholic hospitals control 1 out of every 9 hospital beds in the United States, either through direct administration or mergers with other health care systems; in eight states, they control more than 30% of beds. According to a 2013 article … Continue reading
Just in case you have not already heard about this, and are not already completely depressed about the state of world, here’s this account from The Atlantic of Rolling Stone’s retraction of its earlier story detailing the sexual assault of a young woman using … Continue reading
Just in case you have not already heard about this, and are not already completely depressed about the state of world, here’s this account from The Atlantic of Rolling Stone’s retraction of its earlier story detailing the sexual assault of a young woman using … Continue reading
This news item underlines one of the most urgent issues raised by commodified drug development and marketing, and it deserves far more attention and analysis than I am able to provide here. It has been known for sometime that drug prices … Continue reading
An excellent piece by Susan J. Brison (Dartmouth) at Time. From the essay: Those who have been raped know that if they speak out, they will be blamed for not doing whatever it is people imagine would have prevented they from being … Continue reading