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The legal status of abortion in 2014
Several articles on abortion laws have come out in the past few days, most of which point out that significant amounts of legislation have been passed on this matter in the last 3-4 years. One of the best of these pieces appears in the New York Times. (Go here to…
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Abortion ≠ Murder
Yesterday, CNN reported that Kermit Gosnell was sentenced to 30 additional years in prison for illegally distributing pills. You may remember this guy because major media ran headlines–and now are taking the opportunity to do so again–about this “abortion doctor’s” first-degree murder convictions for killing babies. Those headlines bug me…
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Repost: #CritMH review
I’m a bit late to this (the end of one’s first semester as an assistant professor is difficult, as it turns out), but despite the delay was thrilled to read Abi McNiven’s thoughtful and smart review of the Critical Medical Humanities Symposium. Perhaps my favorite lines are these: The goal…
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#nofilter
Just read this smart post over at Jill Walker Rettberg’s blog. As an academic and journalist, I have a slightly different reaction than most scholars seem to have to this type of debate. First, I think it’s worth examining how “The very reproducibility of the photograph means that it will…
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Robots and resumes
I’ve been warning students lately (both in classes and whenever I give this workshop with Dr. Guiseppe Getto) that they really need to make sure to use appropriate key terms in their resumes and cover letters (while still remaining truthful to their professional identities, of course). That’s because all the…
Erin Anne Clark 