Events
Tissues, embryos, and cells … oh, my! An exploration of bodily rights in the 21st century
The Center for Public Health Media and Research and the Armstrong Master of Public Health program present a panel [Read More]
Rwanda: From genocide to IT and communication hub
This lecture examines the rise of Rwanda from a war-torn nation to a major center of technology and communication. What [Read More]
‘The Business of Being Born’
The Center for Public Health Media and Research, the Delta Omega Honor Society in Public Health, and the Armstrong [Read More]
Research
Philosophy, television inform health care reform
The second House M.D. research project by Jack Simmons and CPHMR co-founder Leigh E. Rich, “Heidegger and ‘House’: The twofold task in working out the question of [Read More]
Editorials
Oh, pluck it
A friend once called me and, before I had a chance to say hello, asked rapidly, “What [Read More]
On demons and doctors
American sportswriter Red Smith once said, “There’s nothing to writing. All you do is [Read More]
Aliens and archaeology
Sometimes I feel like a humorless Jerry Seinfeld, asking a not-nearly-drunk-enough crowd [Read More]
Film
‘Eggsploitation’
In one sense, so-called “third-party reproduction” that uses gametes contributed by anonymous (or known) “donors” is no longer novel (Murphy 2009; Sargent 2007; Sauer [Read More]
Books
Friedan, feminism and fun
Coming soon ... a look back at Betty Friedan’s classic text that launched Second Wave [Read More]
Authors sign book in blood
Horror authors Christopher Leppek and Emanuel “Mani” Isler never thought “chaos” [Read More]
Prepared or panicked?
In the mid-1300s, the “Great Mortality” decimated nearly one-third of Europe’s [Read More]
Articles
The elusive but useful epidemic
When it comes to many of today’s epidemics, perhaps, as FDR warned during the height of the Great Depression, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” This is the message epidemiologist Philip Alcabes examines in his recent book, Dread: How Fear and Fantasy [Read More]
Hope, history and hype
The Democrats touted their 2008 gathering in Denver as “a convention of firsts,” with its live high-definition [Read More]
Convening for change
This November change is the only option, say the Georgia Democrats, who promise they can’t—and won’t—finish what [Read More]
Critical care
Four hours before DNC Chairman Howard Deans banged the gavel and began the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, [Read More]