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Okay, it’s not quite as provocative as an Anne Rice novel…no vampires or anything, and not anywhere as long, but if you want to read about what our colleague Lisa Eckenwiler is doing at George Mason University, the Washington Examiner will tell you.
Summer Johnson, PhD
In early 2016, I wrote a blog for Bioethics Today (formerly bioethics.net) that examined the rise of the Trump movement as a testament to the work of cultural critic Neil Postman. Specifically, Postman’s work Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business predicted that our screen culture, with its obsession with superficial entertainment, […]
In the United States, 6 million people take insulin to control their type 2 diabetes. In recent years, the high price of insulin has been widely covered in the media. Disturbing stories of insulin rationing and patient deaths have been widely reported. A Yale study from 2018 found that 1 in 4 patients with diabetes […]
This editorial appears in the November 2024 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Seeing language barriers as a significant threat to the health of patients calls for a response from health-care institutions and providers at all levels. Failing to respond allows an arbitrary social circumstance to deny full opportunity for a healthy life to particular persons. […]
Unlike its SARS-CoV-1 predecessor a decade prior, SARS-CoV-2—frequently called COVID-19 to lessen alarm—has been an on-going, global crisis starting soon after its emergence in December 2019. The tenth wave of this Level 3 biohazard is starting and the injustices continue. Official global deaths reported by governments total 7 million. Data scientists, demographers, and economists closely […]
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