Giving Each Person Her Due: Taurek Cases and Non-Comparative Justice

Giving Microbes Their Due

Most of life’s diversity springs from microbial organisms, which carry out the lion’s share of the chemical transformations that drive the biosphere. It is therefore remarkable that the microbial world is so little recognized by the general public except in the context of disease and rot. Unfortunately, general biology textbooks at all educational levels do little to rectify this taxonomic snub...

Distributive Justice in Pharmaceutical Torts: Justice Where Justice Is Due?

Ongoing tort reform efforts attest to the significant burden that medical liability imposes on the health care system. General attempts to curb excesses can narrow socioeconomic disparities, but as Clark Havighurst and Barak Richman observe, such measures may leave intact some of the regressive characteristics of the framework they supplant. Therefore, it seems appropriate to question whether t...

Giving credit where it's due.

Projects are ever changing; they can be stressful and bring about many challenges. We always tend to comment or make note when someone misses a deadline, but does the same hold true when something good happens? One important factor that is often overlooked during the lifecycle of a project is celebrating success and the people accomplishing that success.I don’t mean waiting until the end of the...

Non-Fatal Amlodipine and Insulin Overdose in an Elderly Person

Giving Credit Where it is Due

This paper shows how the productive interplay of theory and experimental work has furthered our understanding of credit markets in developing countries. Descriptive facts motivated a body of theory, which in turned motivated experiments designed to test it. Results from these experiments reveal both the success and the limits of the theory, prompting new work to refine it. We argue that the lit...