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Music To My Ears : The Definition And Creation Of A Modern Musical, Seth Tanner Christman

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Individual And Overt Religious Community Attitudes : A Cross-Cultural And Inter-Denominational Study Using A Noam Chomsky Theory, Crystal Bostow

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

New Historical Atlas Of Religion In America [Review] / Edwin Scott Gaustad And Philip L. Barlow., George R. Knight

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Good Enough To Use For Research, But Not Good Enough To Benefit From The Results Of That Research: Are The Clinical Hiv Vaccine Trials In Africa Unjust?, Ruqaiijah A. Yearby

All Faculty Scholarship

The epidemic of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection in Sub-Saharan Africa, the region most affected by the HIV pandemic and where HIV is the leading cause of death, is reaching insurmountable proportions. In fact, out of the 36.1 million HIV infections worldwide, 25.3 million, seventy percent, are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, of the more than 15,000 people who are infected with HIV every day, ninety-five percent of the cases are in populations that live in developing countries such as those located in Sub-Saharan Africa. Due to the significant number of Africans infected with HIV, many researchers and ethicists have …

Five Easy Pieces: Motifs Of Health Law, Sandra H. Johnson

All Faculty Scholarship

The film Five Easy Pieces is named for a selection of five piano compositions that the Jack Nicholson character played in a childhood recital. Here, its namesake refers to five motifs of teaching and practicing health law. Like playing the piano pieces, some of these motifs sound difficult to teach but are quite easy, and others sound easy but are quite difficult.

First, whether it is the lawyers shaking their heads about the doctors or the doctors stunned by the ignorance of the lawyers, these two professions have difficulty reaching common understandings. Health law’s defining characteristic is that it attempts …

Images Of Health Insurance In Popular Film: The Dissolving Critique, Elizabeth Pendo

All Faculty Scholarship

Several recent films have villainized the health insurance industry as central elements of their plots. This Article examines three of those films: Critical Care, The Rainmaker, and John Q. It analyzes these films through the context of the consumer backlash against managed care that began in the 1990s and shows how these films reflect the consumer sentiment regarding health insurance companies and the cost controlling strategies they employ. In addition, the Article identifies three key premises about health insurance in the films that, although exaggerated and incomplete, have significant factual support. Ultimately, the author argues that, despite their passionately critical …

New Testament Greek Manuscript Facimiles At Andrews University / W. Larry Richards., W. Larry Richards

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Species Of Origins: America's Search For A Creation Story [Review] / Karl W. Giberson And Donald A. Yerxa., Timothy G. Standish

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.