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I will indicate how privacy as life, liberty, property defines such a dynamic solution to the problems of commodification of human bodily material and slippery information in insurance markets....
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PMID: 20799054
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Previous research on heterosexuals' attitudes toward gays is characterized by a focus on negative attitudes and minimal use of behavioral dependent variables. In an attempt to rectify this situation, the present study explored the psychological antecedents of heterosexuals' pro-gay activism behavior...
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PMID: 20665329
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This article explores the violence reduction potential in the intersection between health, criminal justice, and development. It emphasizes public health, rule of law, and equality-driven socioeconomic development as principal concerns in preventing violence. In parts of Latin America, violence has...
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PMID: 20602073
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Last month Richard Griffith and Cassam Tengnah considered how current discrimination law affects district nurse practice. This month they outline the proposals in the Equality Bill, which is being introduced to simplify and extend discrimination law to include socioeconomic factors, discrimination b...
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PMID: 20559167
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Maccabi Healthcare Services (MHS), the second largest HMO in Israel, has chosen to implement a multi-annual strategy to promote equality and equity in healthcare. Within the strategy's framework, MHS will maintain an ongoing process of studying the variability of its members characteristics for the...
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PMID: 20812491
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We discuss the theoretical implications of our data for the anchoring and adjustment literature and the practical implications for legal professionals....
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PMID: 19462225
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In 1942 over 110,000 Japanese Americans were evacuated from the West Coast to ten inland, barbed wire-enclosed relocation centers in the name of national security. Agriculture was a key component of the eight arid to semi-arid centers located in the western United States. Each center's agricultural...
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PMID: 20419893
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Few charitable organizations have achieved the status of global recognition enjoyed by UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, which embodies the international effort to provide for needy children the world over. Created because of its synchronicity with the United Nations' stated purpose—to m...
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PMID: 20939149
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This article identifies and critically analyses the difficulties faced by deaf students studying in higher education settings and the potential support that they require. Deaf students face significant barriers in gaining access to information and learning in the classroom. At the same time, the num...
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PMID: 20606616
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Cultural explanations of economic phenomena have recently enjoyed a renaissance among economists. This article provides further evidence for the salience of culture through an in-depth case study of one of the fastest-growing economies in the world during the last 50 years-Botswana. The unique cultu...
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PMID: 20617585
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In the fall of 1732, William Cosby, a member of the British aristocracy, became the colonial governor of New York. As an incompetent, tyrannical and self-serving ruler, he quickly alienated the citizens of New York and, as a result, a core group instigated a broad-based popular uprising against him....
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PMID: 20491370
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This article explores how religion as a political force shapes and deflects the struggle for gender equality in contexts marked by different histories of nation building and challenges of ethnic diversity, different state-society relations (from the more authoritarian to the more democratic), and di...
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PMID: 20857564
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The experience, "voice," and perceptions of the "individual refugee" is conspicuous by its virtual absence from academic research. The few studies dealing with black adn minority ethnic experiences from an emic perspective in relation to mental health do not specifically refer to refugees or asylum...
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PMID: 20524246
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We collected information in a semi-structured interview focused on issues pertinent to the rights of the aged and the elderly Data were analyzed with the technique of thematic content analysis. The results are presented in categories under the Constitution are interpreted Federal Civil Code and the...
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PMID: 20586212
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Existing theory has identified the capacity of political revolutions to effect change in a variety of social institutions, although relationships between revolution and many institutions remain unexplored. Using historical data from twenty-two European and four diaspora countries, the author examine...
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PMID: 19999826
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With regard to the use of bio materials, there is a great need for clarification of the legal ramifications. And since procuring and storing bio materials is becoming an increasingly important point for answering molecular-genetic questions within medical research, finding an answer soon for the rel...
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PMID: 20425938
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The person from whom body materials were collected, first becomes their owner in analogy to section 953 German Civil Code. This applies also if the body materials were taken within the framework of a treatment contract and remain there after the treatment/diagnosis have ended. Only if an explicit co...
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PMID: 20425939
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A jury simulation study was designed to replicate and extend prior research on attributional decision-making sequences in a litigation context. Although previous studies implicated injury severity, causality, responsibility, and punishment, a maximum of three stages in various combinations were test...
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PMID: 19810440
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Although the overall trend is toward lower rates of binge drinking among youths, likely a result of a higher legal drinking age and other changes in alcohol policy, little improvement has occurred for college students, and increases in binge drinking among women has offset improvements among youths....
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PMID: 19465879
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The assessment of the psychological consequences of an accident is a complex and sophisticated challenge for physicians. Pre-traumatic personality traits and the post-traumatic course must be assessed with care. The evaluation of pre-traumatic personality traits is often an issue of particular debat...
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PMID: 19544716
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Advances in medicine have increased the survival rates of children with complex medical conditions, including those who are dependent on technology such as ventilators and tracheostomies. The process of integrating children dependent on medical technology into public schools requires the collaborati...
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PMID: 19363104
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Harriet A Washington,
Robert B Baker,
Ololade Olakanmi,
Todd L Savitt,
Elizabeth A Jacobs,
Eddie Hoover,
Matthew K Wynia,
Writing Group on the History of African Americans and the Medical Profession,
Janice Blanchard,
L Ebony Boulware,
Clarence Braddock,
Giselle Corbie-Smith,
LaVera Crawley,
Thomas A LaVeist,
Randall Maxey,
Charles Mills,
Kathryn L Moseley and
David R Williams
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Between 1910 and 1968, the National Medical Association (NMA) repeatedly clashed with the American Medical Association (AMA) over the latter organization's racial bars to membership and other health policy issues. The NMA, founded in 1895 as a nonexclusionary medical society to provide a voice for d...
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PMID: 19585919
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Of 210 adjudications extracted from the database, 23 (11.0%) specifically discussed the right to some sort of social security. No specific reference was made in the remaining 187 decisions (89.0%), and plaintiffs' claims were rejected. Whereas the "right to nursing care" was specifically discussed i...
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PMID: 19663269
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I heard President John F. Kennedy quote Toynbee in a 1963 speech which argued for the enactment of Medicare. Toynbee concluded from his research that you could predict the greatness and the durability of any society by the manner in which it cared for its vulnerable populations: the aged, the childr...
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PMID: 19626964
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This Note explores the conflict over whether a prisoner must suffer more than de minimis injury to sustain an Eighth Amendment excessive force claim. It examines this conflict against the backdrop of the various standards the U.S. Supreme Court adopted in its Eighth Amendment prison conditions juris...
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PMID: 19618553
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After the watershed 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision Lawrence v.Texas, courts are faced with the daunting task of navigating the bounds of sexual privacy in light of Lawrence's sweeping language and unconventional structure. This Note focuses on the specific issue of state governments regulating sex...
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PMID: 19618552
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From 1993 to 2003, 128 people died in police custody in Germany. The autopsy records allowed a more detailed analysis in 60 of these cases. The most frequent cause of death was cerebro-cranial trauma followed by alcohol, drug and medication poisoning. 24 (40%) of those 60 cases led to preliminary pr...
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PMID: 19301237
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