Integrating the "Underclass": Confronting America's Enduring Apartheid

The coming millennium: enduring issues confronting Catholic health care.

Professor Singer and Ms. Johnson Lantz provide a cogent overview of Catholic health care in the United States and address the key issues affecting Catholic health care in the coming years. In particular, (1) clarity in canonical and ethical interpretation; (2) industry consolidation; and (3) "next generation" sponsorship and the impact of these issues are discussed in detail. The authors conclu...

Integrating palliative care into oncology care: confronting the barriers.

Palliative care is increasingly recognized as an essential component of quality oncology care. Despite growing evidence to support the role of palliative care in the oncology setting,[1] the integration of this complementary specialty into standard oncology practice has been slow to evolve. In their article, Drs. Ramchandran and Von Roenn describe palliative care and its role in oncology, as we...

A contextual definition of the underclass

Assessing whether or not an underclass exists, how it came to be, and what policies are likely to affect it all turn on how the term "underclass" is defined. The underclass has been variously defined by any or all of four characteristics: chronic poverty; nonnormative behavior with respect to income generation and family formation; spatial concentration of such poverty and/or behavior; and inte...

Women in Poverty: A New Global Underclass

The Americas:

As the July presidential election nears, analysts and investors are growing more vocal about whether Mexico might once again be rocked by a major economic crisis, as has been the case at the close of each six-year presidential term since 1976. According to Goldman Sachs, the probability of Mexico facing a currency crisis in the near future has increased by one-third during the past two months. ...