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Brazil's Zika outbreak revealed extreme health disparities and reproductive injustice across racial and socioeconomic lines.Brazil's 2015 Zika outbreak led to severe illnesses for …
What will happen when technology allows us to direct our own evolution?Transhumanists advocate for the development and distribution of technologies that will enhance human …
Several million Americans are afflicted with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementing disorder. For families, professional caregivers, policy makers, and the patients themselves, …
Since 1990, the number of mandated vaccines has increased dramatically. Today, a fully vaccinated child will have received nearly three dozen vaccinations between birth and age …
To its proponents, the ultrasound scanner is a safe, reliable, and indispensable aid to diagnosis. Its detractors, on the other hand, argue that its development and use are driven …
This collection of essays examines alternative theories about persons and personal identity at the beginning and end of life. The contributions seek to answer the important …
Helping human research protection program professionals create, implement, and evaluate quality assurance/quality improvement programs.Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement …
May discusses the fundamental features of a liberal society- chiefly, the individual's rights to make decisions for him- or herself-then applies them in the most important …
Developing best practices and ethical systems to protect and enhance patient safety.Human errors occur all too frequently in medical practice settings. One sobering recent report …
Finalist, Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, British Sociological AssociationOver a decade after medical sociologist Phil Brown called for a sociology …