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The specter of accountability
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t potential environm impacts. Many of the consuming land faster th tions are growing, pushing t urban and suburban pollution fa rural corridors. Chicago and Los An for example, have over the last 20 yea increased their land area more than 10 times faster than their populations. In a particularly striking example of sprawl, Phoenix, Arizona, is encroaching upon the desert at a rate of one acre p...
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When I began my career with dual training in bioethics and law, my research and clinical interests were focused on the suffering of terminally ill adults due to unwanted treatment and how perceptions of law among health care providers contributed to this problem. A central goal of my work was to try to prevent situations where physicians would aggressively continue to treat patients in ways con...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Dance Research Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0149-7677,1940-509X
DOI: 10.1017/s0149767700000504