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...Arthur Kleinman, Farmer’s former Ph.D. dissertation advisor, said Farmer uses his awards “for publicity for the organization and to increase funding,” as he did when he received the $100,000 Austin College Leadership Award in 2007. “Farmer proves that you can do serious research and advocacy as well as having deep values about social justice that inform your research and that also inform practical programme development and clinical work,” said Kleinman, a fellow faculty member in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine...
...mixed bag of ululations and disappointments, Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, agreed to enter into a government of national unity (GNU) with fellow opposition leader Arthur Mutambara and the controversial incumbent, Robert Mugabe. Whatever the skepticism and whatever the argument, this deal is a necessary evil...
...treatments. "The right to reproduce isn't unlimited. You can't put children at risk. The field of reproductive medicine and fertility treatment has an absolute responsibility to look out for the children it is creating in new ways. And in this case it seems to have failed," says Arthur Caplan, chair of the department of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, arguing for a need for professional regulations. "[The process] should look more like adoption, requiring some evaluation of the patient, requiring some assessment of their psychological, emotional and physical abilities to raise children and some control over...
...Arthur Caplan, a medical-ethics expert at the University of Pennsylvania, takes issue with that stance. It's O.K. for doctors to say no, he says; they do it all the time. Some surgeons, for example, won't insert breast implants in women under 18. "Medicine is not a restaurant, and doctors are not waiters," Caplan says. "They don't take orders from patients...
...forgettable and fumbled exchange with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 has been relegated to a historical footnote and their subsequent reenactment assigned to the annals of White House lore. As a nation, we seem ready to both trivially group Barack Obama with Chester Arthur and Calvin Coolidge—predecessors who gave the oath another go—and direct future visitors to the White House Map Room to admire the fireplace before which history was made. This is political travesty of the first order...