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    Preventing Obesity through Schools
    with Allison Nihiser and Caitlin Merlo
    Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 41 (s2): 27-34. 2013.
    This paper describes highlights from the Weight of the Nation 2012 Schools Track. Included is a summary of 16 presentations. Presenters shared key actions for obesity prevention through schools. The information provided at the Weight of the Nation can help school health practitioners access tools, apply evidence-based strategies, and model real-world examples to successfully start obesity prevention initiatives in their jurisdiction.
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    Human Stem Cell Research: NIH Releases Draft Guidelines for Comment
    Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 28 (1): 81-83. 2000.
    In December 1998, two groups of scientists announced that they had successfully isolated and cultured human pluripotent stem cells. This news was greeted with both tremendous enthusiasm and concern. Because these cells can develop into most types of cells or tissues in the human body, they hold great promise for scientific research and medical advances. For example, stem cells can potentially be used to:Generate cells and tissues for transplantation and therapy for conditions such as Parkinson’s…Read more
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    Enhancing Moral Agency: Clinical Ethics Residency for Nurses
    with Ellen M. Robinson, Angelika Zollfrank, Martha Jurchak, Debra Frost, and Pamela Grace
    Hastings Center Report 44 (5): 12-20. 2014.
    One antidote to moral distress is stronger moral agency—that is, an enhanced ability to act to bring about change. The Clinical Ethics Residency for Nurses, an educational program developed and run in two large northeastern academic medical centers with funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration, intended to strengthen nurses’ moral agency. Drawing on Improving Competencies in Clinical Ethics Consultation: An Education Guide, by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanitie…Read more
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    In the prison of the mind : punishment, social order, and self-regulation
    In Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas & Martha Merrill Umphrey (eds.), Law as Punishment/Law as Regulation, Stanford Law Books. 2011.
    This chapter examines the relationship between punishment and regulation as represented in Richard Price's 1992 novel, Clockers. In particular, it considers how obedience to regulation promises avoidance of punishment, even as regulation is often imposed as part and parcel of punishment. It explores how that variable relationship acts on individual subjects and considers how it is replicated and elucidated through narrative construction.
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    Recent Developments in Health Law
    Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 28 (1): 81-83. 2000.
    In December 1998, two groups of scientists announced that they had successfully isolated and cultured human pluripotent stem cells. This news was greeted with both tremendous enthusiasm and concern. Because these cells can develop into most types of cells or tissues in the human body, they hold great promise for scientific research and medical advances. For example, stem cells can potentially be used to:Generate cells and tissues for transplantation and therapy for conditions such as Parkinson’s…Read more
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    A World Abandoned by God: Narrative and Secularism
    Bucknell University Press. 2005.
    This is a literary and philosophical study that links the idea of secularism to the form of the novel. It offers a groundbreaking critical foundation both for understanding the move toward a secular culture and for examining the role of the individual in modern ethical, political, and spiritual contexts
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    The existing market-oriented valuation techniques for forest states, having public good features, are subject to some conceptual limitations. Multiple forest values are closer to the concept of ‘social states’ than market price or monetary value, and the decisions related to SFM are decisions of ‘social choice’ and not decisions to be guided by conventional benefit–cost analysis, based on monetization of all costs and benefits. Authors have proposed a non-market oriented stated preference techni…Read more