Faculty Bibliography

Modern medicine has learned how to use drugs to stimulate egg production. Women who reach menopause can no longer produce eggs. But even older women who can still make eggs with hormone therapy often encounter problems getting pregnant. Pregnancies from older eggs show much higher rates of birth defects and spontaneous abortion

Modern medicine has learned how to use drugs to stimulate egg production. Women who reach menopause can no longer produce eggs. But even older women who can still make eggs with hormone therapy often encounter problems getting pregnant. Pregnancies from older eggs show much higher rates of birth defects and spontaneous abortion

Modern medicine has learned how to use drugs to stimulate egg production. Women who reach menopause no longer can produce eggs. But even older women who can still make eggs with hormone therapy often encounter problems getting pregnant. Pregnancies from older eggs show much higher rates of birth defects and spontaneous abortion

Modern medicine has learned how to use drugs to stimulate egg production. Women who reach menopause can no longer produce eggs. But even older women who can still make eggs with hormone therapy often encounter problems getting pregnant. Pregnancies from older eggs show much higher rates of birth defects and spontaneous abortion

Writing in "Social Science and Medicine," [Stephen Post] looks closely at the most recent edition of psychiatry's "Bible," the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, to see how it deals with religious belief and practices. The manual, published by the American Psychiatric Association, is the standard reference work for practitioners in the United States for diagnosis and treatment of mental illness

Writing in the journal Social Science and Medicine, Post looks closely at the most recent edition of the "bible" of the field of psychiatry, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, to see how it deals with religious belief and practices. The manual is the standard reference work for practitioners in the U.S. for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness

It is here that the huge rinds of pale yellow Swiss are injected with bacteria and then stored in cellars so that the gas the bacteria produces as a by-product of fermentation can riddle the slab with the trademark holes

Minnesota's recently enacted HealthRight legislation places the state at the forefront of American health reform. How did the state manage to overcome the policy gridlock in evidence in other states and at the national level? And how well does the legislation fare under close ethical scrutiny? Among the most important factors that permitted Minnesota to enact reforms were the explicit linkage in the legislative debate of the goal of cost containment to the desire to expand access, the public perception that HealthRight is incremental and consistent with earlier reform efforts in Minnesota, and the lengthy public debate that preceded the enactment of HealthRight. Although it endeavors to create a fair and efficient health care system, it is not at all certain that HealthRight, in its present form, will achieve these normative goals.