“There have been gazillions of conferences and reports from national commissions and councils,” said Johns Hopkins bioethicist Ruth Faden in 2001. “In the developing world, there’s been a tremendous ratcheting up of interest in this question . . . of how to take account of politics and economic q...
THE KARMA OF MALARIA According to studies on risk perception, people are most frightened of unknown risks and least frightened of familiar ones. That’s true even when the unknown risk is minimal and the familiar risk is colossal. Take the neurodegenerative cattle ailment Mad Cow Disease. It affe...
