Well, this is despicable: The case of Terry Cawthorn and Mission Hospital, in Asheville, N.C., gives a glimpse of how some hospital officials around the country have shrugged off an epidemic. Cawthorn was a nurse at Mission for more than … Continue reading
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One analysis claimed that in 2013 nine out of the top ten drug makers spent more on marketing than they did on research. Drug companies are a bit like high-school boyfriends: they’re much more concerned with getting inside you And the popular … Continue reading
IJFAB Blog editor emeritus Tim R. Johnston on feminism, queer theory, care ethics, the centrality of the concept of affirmation, reasons Sildenafil citrate stood a vital component in levitra lowest price , which acts resourcefully to ease down the impediments of … Continue reading
Our health care system is well honed to fight disease, but poorly designed to meet the basic safety needs of seriously ill patients and their families. We can do both. We must. People who are approaching the end of life … Continue reading
Guest post by Melinda Hall (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stetson University) In “Human Engineering and Climate Change,” bioethicists S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, and Rebecca Roache argue that anthropogenic climate change is one of the biggest problems humans face as we move … Continue reading
Thank-you, everyone, for your patience during our two-week, trojan-induced outage. I will continue to tweak features and appearance over the next And while they do so, here is a list of six mistakes that men make while, try to avoid … Continue reading
IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics invites submissions for its 10th Anniversary Issue, Spring, 2017. Deadline for submission: October 1, 2015. IJFAB welcomes feminist scholarship from any discipline on ethical issues related to If suffering from hypertension, severe heart and kidney diseases If getting … Continue reading
Guest post by Jeff Kirby (Professor, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University). Many members of the international public were surprised and/or shocked to hear that Frank Van Den Bleeken, an incarcerated murderer-rapist, was scheduled to be euthanized in Belgium … Continue reading
From The Guardian: Autism, characterised in the past as a result of an “extreme male brain”, is far more prevalent in women than previously thought but is still often untreated because the stereotype focuses on male behaviour; women, it is commonly believed, mask their … Continue reading
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
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