Joseph Shaw Bolton

Doe v. Bolton (1973)

In the 1973 court case Doe v. Bolton, the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., ruled that a Georgia law regulating abortion [2] was unconstitutional. The Georgia abortion [2] law required women seeking abortions to get approval for the procedure from their personal physician, two consulting physicians, and from a committee at the admitting hospital. Furthermore, under the statutes, only women ...

Joseph

as good as his little sister Maria. He does nothing but play marbles. I can't even send him to the store because he never brings home what I tell him to." The general tenor of this dissertation was repeated every time I saw her in the future. I devoted my first lesson to letting Joseph read the story of The Little Red Hen, pp. 1-9, Winston Primer. He read with great difficulty, spelling the wor...

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Three decades of basic cancer research have revealed that mutations in components of signalling pathways that control cell growth in primitive metazoans underlie tumour initiation in mammals. The Ras, PI(3)K and mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) signalling pathways form an intersecting biochemical network that, when mutated, drives cell growth in a manner unrestricted by environmental cues. ...

Eric Shaw

Bolton and Axel Ockenfels Testing and Modeling

The advent of laboratory experiments in economics over the last few decades has produced an enormous literature devoted to describing, testing and modeling economic and social behavior. Measured by publications and citations, the development of social preference models to capture decisions motivated by fairness and other social criteria, is one of the success stories in this literature. But wit...