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...crisis in end-of-life care is one of the main reasons that physician-assisted suicide is at the forefront of public and professional discourse today...
...Salvador where she participated in a delegation that looked at various aspects of political conflict," she adds. "In a sense she was using her skills as a psychiatrist and her sense of trauma, but increasingly she and other physicians have become human rights leaders at the forefront of efforts to integrate human rights concerns into education...
...field of education, recent studies indicating that females are regularly shortchanged in the classroom have had a large impact on the training of teachers. The Harvard School of Education has been in the forefront of this growing field of research, having graduated such influential scholars such as Myra and David Sadker. Gilligan's latest appointment solidifies that leadership. We hope that the controversial nature of her work will spark more discussions about gender and education at this University...
Although these studies have been conducted over the past three years, the ethical questions have only now come to the forefront-just as some researchers publish their results. Last Thursday an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine by executive editor Marcia Angell harshly condemned some of these trials for including a placebo group. Angell condemned the use of a placebo group because those women given the placebo were deliberately denied treatment for the sake of an experiment, even though the treatment may have helped them...
...same phenomenon exists within student government at Harvard. The issues that are most important to the largest number of council representatives rise to the forefront of the council's efforts. Last year's council was successful on many issues like reforming the Core, extending the hours for shuttle buses and libraries, sprucing up Loker-issues of general student interest. These topics were addressed because of their relevance to the daily lives of council members: shuttle service was of great concern to those from the Quad, first-years had a stake in Loker...