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Interstate Variations In Medical Practice Patterns For Low Back Conditions, Dean Hashimoto, Dongchun Wang, Kathryn Mueller, Sharon Belton, Xiaoping Zho Dec 2007

Interstate Variations In Medical Practice Patterns For Low Back Conditions, Dean Hashimoto, Dongchun Wang, Kathryn Mueller, Sharon Belton, Xiaoping Zho

Dean M. Hashimoto

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Afflicting The Comfortable: An Assessment Of The Stasis In International Bioethical Discourse, Sam Grey Dec 2007

Afflicting The Comfortable: An Assessment Of The Stasis In International Bioethical Discourse, Sam Grey

Sam Grey

Despite decades of clinical research being carried out in the 'developing' world, neither the socio-political and economic context of the global South, nor the nature and historical trajectory of global inequality have played a substantive role in determining the nature and extent of North-to-South bioethical obligations. Instead, context has been used to vacate obligation, shut out theories of justice, and collapse the “four principles' of bioethics” – sacrosanct in the 'developed’ world - into a singular, non-negotiable focus on autonomy as a procedurally-defined right. Proponents of a minimum-standards system of international clinical research conflate scientific, statistical, economic, and ethical issues, …