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December 6, 2022December 8, 2022Fall 2024

Understanding the Dilemmas of Physician Assisted Suicide

Doctors are often seen as heroes. They ensure our children are healthy, treat and cure adult ailments, and then provide the elderly necessary care to thrive in their golden years. Should they also help us to die when we are ready? Physician assisted suicide (PAS) is the controversial process through which a doctor provides a […]

October 31, 2022November 2, 2022Fall 2024

My Mom Swears By It: Why Supplements Spread Through Women’s Informal Networks

Most mothers seem to have their go-to remedies for preventing and treating illness in their families, such as vitamin C pills, echinacea tea, or in my family’s case, elderberry. But do these things really work? It can be hard to tell, but the supplement manufacturers selling these products don’t care as long as the consumers […]

March 17, 2022May 10, 2022Spring 2022

Pediatric Cancer’s Lingering Social and Education Effects

To Be Diagnosed with Pediatric Cancer “Your child has cancer.” These are four words that a family never wants to hear. But cancer is a reality for nearly 400,000 children each year (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital), including myself in 2006. With this diagnosis comes months and years of treatment and surgeries. Patients are treated […]

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Jaime Kucinskas, Hamilton College

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Understanding the Dilemmas of Physician Assisted Suicide

My Mom Swears By It: Why Supplements Spread Through Women’s Informal Networks