Abstract The author provides a look into her experiences as Black woman faculty member in higher education and student affairs graduate preparation program using existing literature, scholarly personal narrative, feminist thought. Author concludes with vision for change message women seeking to thrive academia.

this paper deals with the importance of regionalism in iran's foreign policy. some of the existing outlooks view the characteristics of iran's power structure and politics in such a way that make any security-political, economic and cultural coalition and cooperation difficult in the region. but the author holds that political, security and geopolitical changes in the middle east regi...

A review of meta-analyses has concluded that psychiatric drugs are, in general, as effective as drugs used in other medical specialties. Researchers from the Technische Universität München in Germany said they carried out the review because there is a deep mistrust of psychiatry fostered by reports indicating that psychotropic drug efficacy is small. The study, published in the British Journal ...

IR systems designers are likely to improve the function-ality of online IR systems in response to answers to the new research questions posed here, the author concludes with advice to these designers about retaining the simplicity of online IR system interfaces.

Curtis Rooney's article reviews the ERISA law and it relationship to managed care. The piece continues with a review of the relevant preremption provisions and a extentivsive discussion of related U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The author discusses malpractice and design liabilities. The article concludes with a discussion of reform initiatives directed toward the ERISA preemption and damage pro...

The progress of the discussion about the 'indicators of humanhood' is reviewed, along with several associated problems. It is argued that a more serious problem is posed by social attitudes about mental handicap. The author concludes that an uncritical use of criteria of humanhood may simply reinforce a morally unjustifiable social attitude.

This Essay analyses Islamic law and attempts to apply it to issues surrounding end-of-life care. The author concludes that Islam allows physicians to withdraw life-sustaining technologies if there is no hope for a cure, in the effort to prevent prolonged suffering.

Author examines criminal investigations and prosecutions of physicians and nurses in connection with their care of dying patients and concludes that the criminal law has failed to protect patients and families and has significant power to deter appropriate pain management for dying patients.