EXPLORING CHINA’S RESPONSE TO THE ROHINGYA CRISIS: A LIBERAL PERSPECTIVE

A Classical-Liberal Response to the Crisis of Bioethics

M otl Brody, a twelve year old Hasidic Jew, died recently in Washington. During his last days, his life and death were the subject of intense media scrutiny, judicial proceedings, and bioethical commentary. His transition from life to death was marked not by the private mourning of friends and family, but by cost-benefit calculations and legal wrangling. The legal, economic, and bioethical cons...

Ethnic cleansing in Myanmar: the Rohingya crisis and human rights.

A humanitarian crisis of enormous scale and scope is unfolding in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State and its border zone with Bangladesh. More than 420 000 Rohingya women, children, and men have fled widespread violence in Rakhine State in the past 3 weeks. Some 240 000 of them are children, according to UNICEF. The Bangladesh–Myanmar border already shelters about 400 000 Rohingya refugees from My...

From crisis to opportunity: a perspective on the heparin crisis.

Thromb Haemost 2009; 102: 854–858 Heparin is a mixture of polysaccharide chains isolated from a biological source, porcine intestinal mucosa, and is used clinically primarily as a prophylactic agent to prevent thrombosis as well as an initial treatment of established venous thrombosis (1). Heparin has enjoyed widespread use as a medicinal agent; it and insulin are, on a unit basis, the most wid...

The Global Health Crisis of Solidarity: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Fundamentalism from the Perspective of Liberal Tolerance