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Category: Public Health, Medicine, and Science
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How do we define family relationships in regard to giving caregivers leave from work? Nancy Polikoff looks at what she thinks is the fairest option.
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Carole Joffe looks at the myriad challenges women face in our current health care system and the ways Congress can level the playing field.
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Today's post is from David W. Moore, author of The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind the Polls (out in hardcover now, paperback with a new afterword available this fall). Moore is a senior fellow of the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, and he is a former senior editor of…
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Today’s post is from Jennifer Culkin, author of A Final Arc of Sky: A Memoir of Critical Care. Culkin, winner of a 2008 Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, is a writer and longtime neonatal, pediatric, and adult critical care nurse. Her work has appeared in many literary magazines, including the Georgia Review and Utne Reader, and…
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Meredith Hall's Without a Map continues to resonate with readers. A Q&A with homeschooling expert Robert Kunzman addresses some of the criticism his book has received from conservative bloggers. Kathryn Joyce uncovers the dark side of Christian adoption agencies. The Ethicurean looks at Nancy Gift's A Weed by Any Other Name (Gifted posted here today).…
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Our Skeptical Pollster David W. Moore looks at bias in the seemingly objective world of polling.
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Polling expert David W. Moore looks at the paradox of why people apparently support the specifics of Obama’s health plan but not the actions he’s taking to carry it out.
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Midwife Patricia Harman looks at her hometown, where the relatively unemployment figures belie the financial struggles her patients face.
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Dr. Carole Joffe reflects on the work of Dr. George Tiller and his tragic murder.
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Lillian Rubin looks at the societal and psychological damage caused by torture.
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