BY TONY YANG The completion of the Human Genome Project marked the dawn of a bold new era — the era of the genome in biology and medicine. There has been growing biomedical research on relating population-based genomic analyses to diseases. This is a transformation from investigating a small group of individuals to analyzing the [...]
BY DORTHE POSSING A report, “Being a Muslim woman in Denmark,” published in March 2009 and commissioned by the former Danish Minister for Gender Equality, Karen Jespersen, concluded that the circulation of “Islamist” discourses on the Internet and Arabic satellite-TV put young Danish Muslim women’s notions of equality and citizenship at risk. The logic was [...]
BY DAVID W. HAINES As Senator Edward Kennedy began hearings on the bill that would become the Refugee Act of 1980, he commented for the record that “I believe our national policy of welcome to the homeless has served our country and our traditions well. But we are here this morning to explore how we [...]
BY AGNIESZKA PACZYNSKA Over the last three years food and fuel price increases followed by the global financial crisis have placed tremendous strains on fragile and post-conflict states, raising concerns about their ability to maintain political and social stability. At the same time, what these multiple crises have revealed is that even countries in remote [...]
BY LISA ECKENWILER Thanks in part to over a century of progress in public health and medicine, many people are enjoying longer lives. These changing demographics are generating a greater need for long-term care (LTC). In the US, while there has been considerable debate concerning the nature and extent of future LTC needs given declining [...]
BY HUGH GUSTERSON In the fall of 2007, I received an interview request from the New York Times journalist David Rohde, who was writing an article about the U.S. Army’s newly announced Human Terrain project – a program to embed anthropologists in military teams in Iraq and Afghanistan and send them out to “map the [...]