So Who Cares? Taking Livingston out of Africa

‘Starving Children in Africa’: Who Cares?

The current state of global poverty presents citizens in the Global North with a moral crisis: Do we care? In this essay, I examine two competing moral accounts of why those in the North should or should not give care (in the form of charity) to impoverished peoples in the Global South. Nineteen years ago feminist philosopher Nel Noddings wrote in Caring that “we are not obliged to care for sta...

Menstrual cycle variation in mammographic breast density: so who cares?

So who cares? Is it really important that there is a 4% excess in the proportion of women with mammographically ‘‘extremely dense breasts’’ in the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle compared with the follicular phase? For that is what White et al. (1) have clearly shown in this issue of the Journal in a study based on an analysis of 2591 menstruating women who had screening mammograms in a hea...

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User Interfaces; Who Cares?

According to Michael Stonebraker’s experiences, if you select a group of well-known experts in database research and ask them to identify the domains where meeting use+ requirements is of primary importance and at the ‘same time more significant advances are needed and more research should be promoted, user interfaces comes out as number one in the list. This has been the case over the last dec...

Medication adherence: WHO cares?

The treatment of chronic illnesses commonly includes the long-term use of pharmacotherapy. Although these medications are effective in combating disease, their full benefits are often not realized because approximately 50% of patients do not take their medications as prescribed. Factors contributing to poor medication adherence are myriad and include those that are related to patients (eg, subo...