Famine relief must also tackle health care

Famine: Its Effects and Relief

ruled Egypt, and after Joseph interpreted his dreams, " famine was over all the face of the earth." The old empires of the Euphrates, Assyrian and Babylonian, were not free from the scourge. Imperial Rome itself suffered from famine. Parts of Europe in the Middle Ages were frequently famine-stricken. At more recent dates, China, especially in the north, has experienced famines. Famines in India...

Healthy communities must also be sustainable communities.

The author contends that healthy communities must be both environmentally and socially sustainable, given that health depends on the quality of the built and natural environments, and that global change resulting from the industrial economy is affecting the web of life. He argues that suburban sprawl wastes scarce resources and disproportionately places those resources in the hands of suburban ...

Why the federal government must lead in health care.

We must make rural health care a high priority.

Why diachronically emergent properties must also be salient

In this paper, I criticize Bedau’s definition of ‘diachronically emergent properties’ (DEPs), which says that a property is a DEP if it can only be predicted by a simulation (simulation requirement) and is nominally emergent. I argue at length that this definition is not complete because it fails to eliminate trivial cases. I discuss the features that an additional criterion should meet in orde...