In “Assault on Privacy,” Philly Police Routinely Reveal Mental Health Status of Missing City Residents
“This is a fundamental assault on privacy,” says Dominic Sisti, the director of the Scattergood Program for Applied Ethics in Behavioral Health Care at the University of...
In California, Some Doctors Sell 'Medical Exemptions' for Kids' Vaccinations
In 2015, California passed a law eliminating personal belief exemptions for vaccinations that kids must receive before they can attend public school. In the years since,...
In Conversation: Louis Massiah, Jonathan Moreno, and Alex Pittman
From the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art: William Greaves’s cinematic social experiment, In the Company of Men, encapsulates many of the central themes present...
In Ethiopia, new perspectives on the challenges of development
In the weeks leading up to her arrival in Ethiopia, Shuaiqing Liu read plenty about the transportation challenges in the African nation. She still wasn’t prepared for the...
In Memoriam: Renée Fox
We write with the sad news that our dear colleague and beloved friend, Renée Fox, died today at the age of 92. The cause of death was leukemia, which came on very suddenly....
In Memoriam: Sandy Vanderslice
Our department would like to remember our beloved friend and colleague Sandra Vanderslice. Sandy was an integral member of our community, who never hesitated to help...