What Happens When Fetal Rights Trump Women ’ s Human Rights
I’m breaking my hiatus to point out that this is exactly what it looks like when states value the fetus’s potential for life over the consent, expressed wishes, and bodily autonomy of women.
In her husband’s words:
Though Mr. Muñoz did not speak at the hearing, he said in court papers that it has been painful to watch his wife deteriorate from the woman he knew to what he described as a corpse being kept alive against his wishes.
“Over these past two months, nothing about my wife indicates she is alive,” he said in an affidavit.
“When I bend down to kiss her forehead, her usual scent is gone, repl...
Source: Women's Health News - January 26, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Ethics Government Laws, Legislation, & Courts Pregnancy marlise munoz right to die Texas women as incubators Source Type: blogs
Speed of Light
When I looked at my phone and saw that someone from Neurology had left me a message a few minutes earlier, I thought it was a coincidence. But no, it was Dr. B: “… Your MRI of the cervical spine looks much better, with significant improvement in the swelling and in the scar that you had compared to before. So it seems that the Cytoxan is doing what it’s supposed to with reduced inflammation, so my suggestion would be to continue the treatment…” (Source: T. Scott)
Source: T. Scott - January 9, 2014 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: T Scott Source Type: blogs
Not all research comes from noble birth
The idea of research can be a bit intimidating, as if the purpose is to always discover a great truth. And sometimes it looks like that on the surface, like a fancy illuminated manuscript from the British Library, for example. But sometimes research begins simply because you’re curious about the way other people manage things. And so you call them up and say, “Hey, I was wondering something.” And suddenly you realize that an illuminated manuscript, with all its beauty, can really be just a simple thing with an impressive presentation.
I think about this concept quite a bit when I conceive research ideas. My i...
Source: Organization Monkey - January 2, 2014 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: library Source Type: blogs
Neurologists Get The High Tech Tools
I was eager for him to reach for the safety pin. (Source: T. Scott)
Source: T. Scott - December 19, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: T Scott Source Type: blogs
The Magical Thinking of Professor Harnad
One watches with awe the relentlessness of the hedgehog mind. Would that I were as certain of anything as Professor Harnad is of his vision of the open access future. Surely one can be sympathetic to his frustration at those who bring up irrelevant issues or divergent points of view. To his laser-like vision they are so obviously wrong. Again and again (and again!) he tirelessly trots out his facts – that it is only fear that keeps academics from depositing articles into local repositories and so we must have mandates which will almost instantly (because academics love mandates) result in nearly 100% OA, at whi...
Source: T. Scott - December 12, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: T Scott Source Type: blogs
