On September 8, 2016, Deloitte LLP announced it would grant 16 weeks of paid leave to employees who provide family caregiving not only to new children, but to older children, parents, and spouses. This is an enormous improvement in the U.S. … Continue reading
In 2013, Rafael Campo–then associate professor of medicine at Harvard–won the Hippocrates Open International Prize for Poetry and Medicine. First, let us be grateful that there is such a thing, a thing to draw beauty out of what isn’t always. … Continue reading
According to a recent article in the popular press, a California based biotech firm, BioMarin Pharmaceuticals, has completed Phase 2 of a clinical trial for a drug that would partially suppress the expression of the Achondroplasia gene in a child’s … Continue reading
It may not have escaped your notice that Britain has just had a general election. The result decides the flavour of the government, probably for the next 5 years. The outcome on 8 May was widely unpredicted: the polls had … 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
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
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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
In George Cukor’s brilliant 1940 comedy The Philadelphia Story, Tracey Lord has divorced the love of her life, a recovering alcoholic who is a rich, Philadelphia blueblood like herself, and she is foolishly about to marry a shallow, social-climbing, “man … Continue reading
Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy edited by Catriona Mackenzie, Wendy Rogers, and Susan Dodds is reviewed by Joan C. Tronto at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Her conclusion: In all, though, this is a remarkably rich and important collection that will … Continue reading
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A thought-provoking piece at Slate.com. The logic behind the past push for registries rested on what seem like common sense assumptions. Among the most prominent were, first, sex offenders were believed to be at a high risk for reoffending—once a … Continue reading
