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Sexual Identity, Health, and Stigma in India
Last November, a barrier was broken in the prolific Bollywood film industry of India. A film called Dunno Y featured the first on-screen male-male kiss – a provocative scene in a country that only the...
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Lactose Tolerance in the Indian Dairyland
The ability to drink animal milk into adulthood is something that most of us take for granted. But lactose tolerance is a genetic marvel, an exclusive human trait facilitated by a genetic mutation...
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Texting: A Doctor in Your Pocket?
Texting has grown from technological fad to a primary route of communication popular around the world. With cell phones in the pockets of people of all incomes and ages, the quick, no-frills...
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Glitter and Glam for World AIDS Day
By Dianna Douglas The goal of World AIDS Day 2011 is not to make the public aware of the disease. That was the goal in 1988, back when the international health threat was still new, infections were...
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GW-As: The Toxicity Risk in the Genes
By Rob Mitchum Arsenic is a deadly toxin, but it’s not one dose fits all. Two people exposed to the same level of the chemical can have entirely different responses, with Patient A developing the skin...
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Brucella and the Fake Self-Destruct
By Rob Mitchum Brucella abortus is a particularly pesky pathogen. Frequently infecting cattle in many countries around the world, the bacterium causes the most common zoonotic infection, usually...
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MacLean Center Prize Winner Challenges Ethics Conference to Drive Global...
University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer, left, awards Peter Singer with the 2nd annual MacLean Center Prize in Clinical Ethics Nov. 10. Photo by Bruce Powell. Peter Singer, MD, MPH, was awarded...
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Two Public Health Wrongs Make It Worse
Image Courtesy of MySafetySign.comToday, nearly everyone is aware of the dangerous health effects of smoking cigarettes. Even fewer people would deny the harmful effects of drinking water contaminated...
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The Global Health Gap: Why Fight It?
The final question of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics seminar series on health disparities was a seemingly obvious query that had gone unasked and unanswered the entire year: who is...
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Medical Ethics Summer School
It has been a couple months since the end of the spring quarter, and the with it the end of many of the Medical Center’s weekly lecture series. But a recent batch of videos posted to the website of the...
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