Anonymous Scribes and/or Donors of Newar Buddhist Manuscripts

A survey of anonymous oocyte donors: demographics.

This is a questionnaire based study of 501 women enquiring about anonymous oocyte donation at a private in-vitro fertilization (IVF) unit, investigating the demographic characteristics and logistic issues involved in ovum donation. The 501 women were made up of 356 women who did not donate ('non-donors') and 145 women who eventually donated their oocytes ('donors'). Although there was a majorit...

Genetics. Genealogy databases enable naming of anonymous DNA donors.

C R E D IT : G . G R U L L Ó N / C IE N C E CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS—One afternoon in March last year, Yaniv Erlich sat down at his computer to do an experiment. Before he became a geneticist here at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Erlich was a white hat: a hacker hired by banks and credit card companies to break into their computer systems and identify weaknesses. Now he was a...

Rounding with scribes: employing scribes in a pediatric inpatient setting.

Using scribes to document patient encounters for physicians offers both benefits and challenges. A pediatric hospital recounts its experience adding scribes to its inpatient rounding teams.

Portraits of Buddhist Women

Journal of Buddhist Ethics

I argue that central Buddhist tenets and meditation methodology support a view of free will similar to Harry Frankfurt’s optimistic view and contrary to Galen Strawson’s pessimistic view. For Frankfurt, free will involves a relationship between actions, volitions, and “metavolitions” (volitions about volitions): simplifying greatly, volitional actions are free if the agent approves of them. For...