Health and Science
A Lecture, What Motivates Us: Sex
sex is one of the sort of dicey ones from an emotional point of view. These are difficult issues because sex is, by definition, an intimate part of our lives, and it matters a lot. Moreover, sex is fraught with moral implications. more »
Current Reading: The Patients Doctors Don’t Know
"Yet there is no requirement for any clinical training in geriatrics, even though patients 65 and older account for 32 percent of the average doctor’s workload in surgical care and 43 percent in medical specialty care, and they make up 48 percent of all inpatient hospital days." more »
Risks of Sharing Personal Genetic Information
"If you receive information on your breast cancer risk and share it with others, you might also be sharing information about your daughter’s risk for breast cancer — even though she never consented to have that information shared." more »
Book Reviews: Mother Warriors and Cancer; 50 Essential Things to Do
Mother Warriors
by Jenny McCarthy, © 2008
Plume Books/Penguin Group
Paperback: 217 pp plus 27 pp of resources
If you know anyone with a child who has received a diagnosis of autism, information about this little book, along with the author’s earli… more »






