The Civil Rights Doctor, Revisited

The Paradox of Civil Rights

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...

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...

Rights Revisited, and Limited

One of the most justly famous result of social choice theory is Sen’s Theorem on the impossibility of a Paretian liberal. In two recent papers, Salles introduced the notion of limited rights both in an aggregation function framework and in a social choice function framework. He then proved Sen-type impossibility theorems. In the aggregation function framework an individual has a ‘right’ if when...