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Integration Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine Into The Healthcare System In The United States, Nikki Lu

Global Honors Theses

Chronic diseases are a prevalent issue around the world and chronic diseases are hard to prevent due to various systemic factors in the healthcare system. This paper mainly focused on socioeconomic issues and highlighted a few systemic factors in the US healthcare system. These factors have created various health disparities, inequities among socially constructed groups, and financial expenditures in the US healthcare system. Socioeconomic factors significantly impact the health and healthcare among socially constructed groups. Additionally, in this paper there are current approaches in addressing these healthcare factors such as social determinants of health and precision medicine as well as …

The Health Exception, Monica E. Eppinger

All Faculty Scholarship

The abortion doctrine laid out in Roe v. Wade permits a procedure necessary to preserve the life or the health of the pregnant woman, setting out what has come to be called the “life exception” and the “health exception.” This Article investigates the background and antecedents of the health exception, identifying three periods of formation and change up to the drafting of the Model Penal Code in 1959. It argues that theories of health lie at the heart of legal doctrine, shaping common-law treatment of abortion and persisting in nineteenth- and twentieth-century statutes. This account reveals origins of a health …

Update - October 1996, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Is Organ Reanimation a Better Mousetrap?
-- Reanimation of Dead Hearts
-- Reanimation Dialogue
-- James W. Walters publishes second book on ethics and aging

Update - July 1996, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Stress and Distress in Pediatric Nurses: The Hidden Tragedy of Baby K
-- Ethics Grand Rounds: The Year in Review
-- CEJA Reverses Its Stance on Using Anencephalic Neonates as Live Organ Donors
-- AMA Council's Ethics Overwhelmed by Public Sentiment

Update - October 1995, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Managed Care: Challenges Facing Interdisciplinary Health Care Teams
-- Anencephalic Neonates as Live Organ Donors: AMA and CEJA
-- Can Evil Even End?

Update - November 1987, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Gerald Winslow joins LLU faculty
-- Thompson library opens September 25

[ Anencephalic Infants as Organ Donors: Ethical Issues ]
-- A Neonatologist's Concern
-- A Neonatologist's Reply
-- Should the Law be Changed?
-- Would Anencephalic Neonates be Citizens?
-- Cadaveric Donors Should be Dead

-- Ethics Center seeks $100,000

Update - July 1986, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

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In this issue:

-- Baby Jessie and Beyond
-- Newsbriefs
-- The Bouvia Decision: Right But Inadequate
-- LLU plans conference on ethics and transplantation

[ Apartheid and Morality Today ]
-- Growing Up White in South Africa
-- In Favor of Constructive Engagement
-- Divestment: Realistic Moral Opposition to Apartheid

-- What should treatment committees consider?
-- Religion and Politics on Sabbath (Editorial)
-- George Otto Schumacher, MD (1913-1986)
-- Thomas Gordon Goman, PhD (1944-1986)