Medicalization and the new civil rights

Toward a New Civil Rights Framework

The problem of racial discrimination has reached a point of equipoise. When one examines closely the lived lives of citizens of color across some of the most pertinent evaluative domains, one clearly finds that citizens of color are not enjoying the full benefits of American citizenship. African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans lag behind Whites and sometimes Asian Americans on almost a...

The Paradox of Civil Rights

GINA, genism, and civil rights.

Culminating its 13-year legislative gestation, The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), was signed by President George W. Bush on May 21, 2008. GINA is the first major federal law to come out of the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) portion of the Human Genome Project. The passage of GINA has been widely celebrated. For the genetic research community, the act was sought...

Sociological Meta-Analysis of Civil Rights

Introduction: Citizenship rights is a set of rules governing society in relation to politics, institutions, governments and civil society. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the awareness of citizenship rights using meta-analysis. Method: The mechanism of conducting research is meta-analysis-quantitative. The purpose of this method is to integrate, systemati...

Sociological Meta-Analysis of Civil Rights

Introduction: Citizenship rights is a set of rules governing society in relation to politics, institutions, governments and civil society. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the awareness of citizenship rights using meta-analysis. Method: The mechanism of conducting research is meta-analysis-quantitative. The purpose of this method is to integrate, systemati...