CI Blog #1—Health Care: Mental Health
Health care is something most of us often take for granted. If you’re sick enough, you call the doctor’s office, schedule an appointment, you go in, get treated, and then things are fine again, or at...
View ArticleCI Blog #2—Health Care: Genomic Medicine
The genomics revolution in science has exploded and driven research exponentially since the Human Genome Project launched back in 1990, and especially since its completion in 2003. The last decade has...
View ArticleCI Blog #3—Health Care: Costs
Health care isn’t free. It isn’t cheap either. Just considering the salaries of the hundreds, possibly thousands, of employees of a hospital or hospital system you can see that things add up pretty...
View ArticleCI Blog #4—Health Care: Reform
If you read my previous Civic Issue blog, you will have a fair idea of the economic state that America’s health care system is stuck in. Or if you’ve ever dealt with being uninsured or faced egregious...
View ArticleCI Blog #5—Health Care: Influence from a Social Perspective
How would you define “disease”? What makes something a disease? We all have pretty clear ideas of things that we think are diseases—and they are—but within a sociohistorical context. Take for example...
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